So the story goes that a young British cobbler named William Carey (1761-1834), intent on seeing his church become more involved in missions work to unreached people, stood up i
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Charles Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers
Known as the Prince of Preachers, Spurgeon set a preaching pace few could match. By the time he was 20, he had preached over 600 sermons. Some estimate he preached to ten million people over the course of his ministry through over 3600 sermons.
A century and a half, however, before Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the Wittenberg Church door, sparking the Protestant Reformation, a Catholic theologian and professor in Oxford voiced his dissent against several tenets of Catholicism.
The Bible often directly addresses fathers as the spiritual heads of their households. As we celebrate Father’s Day this month, let’s see what Scripture says to fathers.
When Tyndale was born, there was no Bible in the common language of the person in the pew. The Latin Vulgate was the only translation sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church.
Fortunately, for the New Testament we literally have tens of thousands of pieces of information to work with in compiling an accurate replica of the originals.