The One Year Christian HistoryTyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2003 - 832 What happened on this date in church history? From ancient Rome to the twenty-first century, from peasants to presidents, from missionaries to martyrs, this book shows how God does extraordinary things through ordinary people every day of the year. Each story appears on the day and month that it occurred and includes questions for reflection and a related Scripture verse. |
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He fought for the faith | 2 |
He wept with those who wept | 4 |
Some choices have high stake | 6 |
He was an unlikely inquirer | 8 |
Some father deal with their sons eyeballtoeyeball others nosetonose My father dealt with me kneetoknee | 10 |
He came in to get out of the snow | 12 |
His life was changed by an ugly car a pretty girl and Mr Pridgen | 14 |
No one wanted to hear from God | 16 |
Talk about not having a childhood | 376 |
When did democracy begin in America? | 378 |
It was the most famous sermon ever preached in America | 380 |
Some men are afraid to show their feelings | 382 |
Imagine leaving your children realizing you would probably never see them again | 384 |
In Tientsin China in 1902 a baby boy was born to Scottish missionaries James and Mary Liddell They named him Eric | 386 |
Was his desire to be a minister a commitment to God or a yearning to be like his brother? | 388 |
He was regarded by the classconscious English missionaries as inferior in background and education | 390 |
Their lives were like bright shortlived flames | 18 |
It was a prayer meeting that ended in heaven | 20 |
Where is Timothy? his mother and father wondered once again | 22 |
He started early | 24 |
Enough is enough | 26 |
For years he labored without results | 28 |
He had a desire transplant | 30 |
Motherhood brings joys and sorrows | 32 |
He was a powerful emperor who showed he could be humble before God | 34 |
You never know how God will answer | 36 |
He had walked in their shoesuntil the night he sold them | 38 |
God used him to bring the English Bible to England | 40 |
What one does during life matters more than how long one lives | 42 |
Being a pastor has its risks | 44 |
His life spanned two continents | 46 |
He knew what was coming | 48 |
God used a Roman emperor to change the life of an Egyptian Jew | 50 |
They had never met but were so alike | 52 |
People are drawn to doctrines that bolster their egos | 54 |
It all began when he was sixteen | 56 |
He honored his God and his country | 58 |
With God all things are possible | 60 |
A man of peace died in peace | 62 |
He was late for his own wedding | 64 |
Their meeting changed history | 66 |
He pursued peace with godly convictions | 68 |
She wrote a hymn that became her prayer | 70 |
He kept the faith | 72 |
God never stops doing good for his people | 74 |
It was love at first sight | 76 |
His flattery got him nowhere in the end | 78 |
He almost didnt grow up | 80 |
It was marriage if different expectations | 82 |
Heaven is already rich with thine ingathered sheaves | 84 |
She was the queen of England at fifteen | 86 |
Our times are in his hands | 88 |
He had asked her to marry him on Valentines Day | 90 |
How do you motivate people to build a temple? | 92 |
Teaching was his life | 94 |
Witnessing an execution was life changing | 96 |
He wrote a classic of devotional literature | 98 |
He walked through the shadows of tragedy and emerged stronger on the other side | 100 |
Listening to the radio changed his life | 102 |
He ran the race set before him | 104 |
Through the same door Martin Luther started the Reformation and passed into eternal rest | 106 |
It was the worst persecution to date | 108 |
They took the road less traveled and more dangerous | 110 |
The question was whether Jesus had a beginning | 112 |
He went from healing the physical to healing the spiritual | 114 |
New York State had never seen anything like it | 116 |
Only 25 percent of the Jew living in Holland survived the Holocaust | 118 |
He was Scotlands first Protestant martyr | 120 |
Their loyalty was mutual | 122 |
when a man dies he leaves behind bears testimony to who he was | 124 |
Would God be fair? | 126 |
Sometimes thing get worse before they get better | 128 |
Twentyfive escaped only he was recaptured | 130 |
How would a twentythreeyearold Oxford man spend two weeks on the rock of Gibraltar? | 132 |
Society dictated that she obey her father but she would not | 134 |
It took only a few minutes to write but its blessings will last forever | 136 |
They won against all odds | 138 |
They are in heaven together | 140 |
He was cast down but not in despair | 142 |
They wondered why it didnt rain | 144 |
The media dubbed her the grandmother next door | 146 |
It all began at a tea party | 148 |
He died the way he hoped | 150 |
the kingdom of Judah ended badly | 152 |
She wrote from her owe experience | 154 |
Why would intelligent popular and athletically gifted young men disdain lucrative careers and choose to be missionaries? | 156 |
Their parting was bittersweet | 158 |
He was one of Scotlands greatest theologians | 160 |
I once was lost but now am found | 162 |
In 1620 when many people were considering whether to go to the New World one person had a unique reasonhe was trying to go home | 164 |
What would a revival be like among the Delaware Indians in 1746? | 166 |
Through its pages millions came to know God personally | 168 |
Memorizing Scripture became a was of life for many because of his influence | 170 |
He was burned at the stake for reading the Bible | 172 |
What would become of the next generation? | 174 |
She gladly gave up her most valuable possession | 176 |
He didnt rush to help | 178 |
Was it a prophecy fulfilled to the day? | 180 |
Jesus used visual parables | 182 |
Jesus summarized the rest of world history | 184 |
It was night before Jesus crucifixion | 186 |
They crucified their King | 188 |
Two wrongs never make a right | 190 |
Its the story of an empty tomb | 192 |
Its amazing what can result from unsubstantiated claims | 194 |
How can one enter Gods Kingdom? | 196 |
They had little in common with one another | 198 |
His accomplishments were great but his time was short | 200 |
His release never came | 202 |
He fought for another kind of victory | 204 |
They paid a terrible price | 206 |
The Christians of Chad rejoiced to have a Christian president | 208 |
He served a good master | 210 |
He nearly drowned three times | 212 |
He learned from his father | 214 |
It wasnt some kind of crazy fad diet | 216 |
And the scales fell off | 218 |
In 1775 the American colonies were in uproar | 220 |
God gave us a glimpse of the future | 222 |
It is a city with a past | 224 |
He went where he didnt wan to go | 226 |
God sometimes tells us ahead of time what is going to happen | 228 |
He was nineteenth centurys greatest seminary professor | 230 |
He was the great theologian of the Reformation | 232 |
Adoniram Judson pioneer missionary to Burma gave up everything for Christ | 234 |
His dream was realized but he wasnt there to see it | 236 |
What will Jerusalem be like in the future? | 238 |
From boyhood he continually astounded everyone with his wisdom | 240 |
They were political casualties | 242 |
The child on the moss she laid And she stretched the cold limbs of the dead | 244 |
He had no idea what he was starting | 246 |
Although Greenland was anything but green actually 85 percent glacial icecap he didnt let that deter him | 248 |
She began a voyage to Australiabut ended up in paradise | 250 |
It was a religious club that produced mostly poor results | 252 |
He proved that a good education isnt dependent upon lavish surroundings | 254 |
He realized his boyhood dream | 256 |
She returned to her captors | 258 |
He was victorious in death | 260 |
The troops called him Stonewall members of his church called him Deacon | 262 |
They died to win | 264 |
One of the twentieth centurys most widely read Christian authors had just a grammar school education | 266 |
Once upon a time a worldly city became spiritualeven if only for a time | 268 |
How did Jesus three years of public ministry begin and end? | 270 |
They came from all over the world | 272 |
He was a general who spent his spare time ministering to the poor | 274 |
A fathers fervent prayer was answered after his death | 276 |
They trusted not in chariots or horsemen but in the living God | 278 |
She was Englands first evangelical queen | 280 |
They were missionaries while still them selves a mission field | 282 |
The loss of a brother gave the world a song | 284 |
It was to be his biggest crusade to date | 286 |
He was right under her nose | 288 |
No one had ever seen anything like this before | 290 |
What would you write in a last letter to an aging parent? | 292 |
Where is the joy? | 294 |
He crowned the king and the king gave him an even better crown | 296 |
He tried to dispel the rumors about him | 298 |
They followed the star | 300 |
He was the loose cannon of church reform in Czechoslovakia | 302 |
Contemporary ministers called him the harebrained enthusiast but we know him as the father of modern missions | 304 |
He was a man who knew not only what he was living for but also what he was willing to die for | 306 |
God changes lives in unexpected ways | 308 |
Knowing his adversary helped him control the situation | 310 |
Do you remember the Bible story the daring young nephew? | 312 |
When God decides a man and women are meant for each other he can use just about anything to bring them together | 314 |
The seeds of evangelism bear fruit in Gods time not mans | 316 |
Was the Israeli capture of the old city of Jerusalem predicated in the Bible? | 318 |
He successfully invented a new religion | 320 |
Show respect for everyone love your Christian brothers and sisters Fear God Show respect for the king | 322 |
Some people can never get enough of themselves | 324 |
Not many missonaries make the headlines but these did | 326 |
Founding the America we all take for granted was at times a depressing ordeal | 328 |
The message was the same but the results were quite different | 330 |
Just because something appears to be supernatural doesnt mean its from God | 332 |
Have you ever wondered how Bible scholars are able to assign dates to the events of the Old Testament? | 334 |
In times of battle mens thoughts often turn to prayerand for good reason | 336 |
In the late nineteenth century AngloAmerican communications were difficult for everyoneand how Yet God was in charge then too | 338 |
Can you imagine William Tyndale on the Ten Most Wanted list? | 340 |
Some children seem to be born with an Ill do it myself attitude | 342 |
Less than a century before France was the ally of the colonists during the Revolutionary War she was their worst enemy | 344 |
Five hundred years ago being ahead of the curve in science could put you on a collision course with the church | 346 |
A truly great teacher lives on in the lives of his students | 348 |
Even more important to Charles Hodge than his students were his own children | 350 |
Behold the power of prayer | 352 |
It all began with King Saul | 354 |
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to face imminent martyrdom? | 356 |
For eight long years the emperor had been Julian the Apostate but things were about to change | 358 |
Have you ever noticed how God sometimes uses unlikely characters to play important roles in executing his plan? | 360 |
God began the American foreign missions movement in a very unlikely place | 362 |
If you cant change your husband God can | 364 |
Some go to Hawaii for more the Scenery | 366 |
When should Christians rebel? | 368 |
Not all faithful preachers end their years of ministry being appreciated outside their own congregation | 370 |
What makes churches grow? | 372 |
You never know how God will bring fruit from your life | 374 |
Does it make a difference if the president of the United States is a Christian? | 392 |
He went against the grain | 394 |
He had decide whom to evangelizethe rich or the poor | 396 |
He was an adventurer with the heart of a poet | 398 |
The kingdom of Judah was in trouble | 400 |
Its an old familiar storypeople couldnt get along with one another | 402 |
One plants another waters but God gives the increase | 404 |
At the Scopes Monkey Trial was Scopes found guilty or innocent? | 406 |
What is worth dying for? | 408 |
Her marriage was very happy but short lived | 410 |
Does God give special revelations to some of his children? | 412 |
There is neither slave nor free man | 414 |
He never gave up | 416 |
One seldom meets a literal prophet of doom | 418 |
In heaven well understand why | 420 |
Why is England largely Protestant and not Catholic? | 422 |
Gods will includes the past present and future | 424 |
When God called Ezekiel to be a prophet he knew he was called | 426 |
There was more to Francis Scott Key than just one song | 428 |
In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean bluebut another departure from Spain in 1492 was more momentous for some that the voyage of Columbus | 430 |
This was not a boxing match it was a struggle of life and death | 432 |
Imagine walking nine hundred miles | 434 |
They abandoned their war hero | 436 |
Some called it Americas Pentecost | 438 |
His life was an example of what God can do with one man | 440 |
Being Gods representative is an awesome responsibility | 442 |
The measure of a man in how he lives his daily life | 444 |
God can be trusted to work out the details | 446 |
The hymn Rock of Ages was written by someone who knew he would soon die | 448 |
Gods dealings with us may be a painful process | 450 |
God often uses the weak and infirm in might ways | 452 |
How does it feel to have God confront you with your sin? | 454 |
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him | 456 |
Would your church call a nineteenyearold pastor? | 458 |
God works in mysterious ways | 460 |
He didnt expect his theological training to include a stint in a mental institution | 462 |
Samuel Miller lived a life of hope | 464 |
Little did he know what lay ahead | 466 |
God is our only refuge and our strength Let us humble ourselves before him | 468 |
Thou wilt show me the path of life | 470 |
Every was has casualties | 472 |
The times is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing God a service This is because they have never known the Father on me John ... | 474 |
It was a meeting he never forgot | 476 |
Baptism didnt do him any good | 478 |
He was a man of conviction and it cost him his job | 480 |
His mothers prayers had farreaching effects | 482 |
What a doctor you will make | 484 |
It was the Boxers versus the Christians | 486 |
He loved God his congregation and his wife | 488 |
There can be a cost to following Jesus | 490 |
What was to become of the temple in Jerusalem? | 492 |
Just one thing was missing | 494 |
He discovered what he was looking for | 496 |
What should the Christans strategy in dealing with pagans? | 498 |
Who was the first to baptize believers in modern times? | 500 |
The most hurtful persecution is that comes Gods people | 502 |
Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? | 504 |
Prayer can change history | 506 |
Do you know what the Feast of Tabernacles is all about? | 508 |
Setting dates for the return of Jesus Christ can be embarrassing | 510 |
Its membership was relatively small but its influence continues today | 512 |
Can you imagine what it would be like to b someones nineteenth wife? | 514 |
He wrote some of the worlds most beautiful music in an amazingly short period of time | 516 |
Apologies are difficult especially when they are not accepted | 518 |
What makes a religious person cruel? | 520 |
What does the Bible mean when it says that God is a jealous God? | 522 |
What was the apostle John doing on the island if Patmos? | 524 |
Some are overcome by challenges while others are able to triumph over them | 526 |
One of lifes saddest experiences is to lose a child in death | 528 |
How do you get back up once you are down? | 530 |
It became a literal witchhunt | 532 |
What do you do if you announce a prayer meeting but no one comes? | 534 |
The impact of a life matters more than its length | 536 |
John Oldcastle was part of the nobility but more important he was truly noble | 538 |
The more he drank the rowdier he became | 540 |
She asked him what his name was and he answeredCharlie Manson | 542 |
It all began with people praying | 544 |
Some people just keep goingno matter what | 546 |
Why do Roman Catholic Bibles have more books in them than Protestant Bibles? | 548 |
What determines how long an empire will late? | 550 |
Its remarkable what can be accomplished with Gods help | 552 |
Some people are destined to write | 554 |
This match made in heaven had to wait until heaven | 556 |
What would you say in a last letter to your children? | 558 |
You have to be careful what you pray for | 560 |
Not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts Zechariah 46 KVJ | 562 |
Hearing directly from God gets your attention | 564 |
Wen all else fails read the directions | 566 |
He switched from the practice of law to pleading the cause of Christ | 568 |
Why would anyone sail west to get to the east? | 570 |
Arrogance can spell ruin | 572 |
Can God be trusted with our children? | 574 |
Can persecution succeed? | 576 |
What happens when God captures the heart of an uneducated British parlor maid? | 578 |
Be thou faithful unto death | 580 |
God sometimes used his prophets as motivational speakers | 582 |
Why is France today considered a mission field? | 584 |
Who determines who will die first? | 586 |
Gos used some surprising people to save John Wesleys life | 588 |
Medical school didnt prepare him for this | 590 |
Imagine a theological seminary with a faculty of one | 592 |
What was it like to hear a legendary preacher from the past in person? | 594 |
The truth is a kernel of wheat must be planted in the soil Unless it dies it will be alonea single seed But its death will produce many new kernelsa plent... | 596 |
You never know when someones words will change your life | 598 |
Constantine was the first Christian emperor of the Roman Empire but was he really a Christian? | 600 |
This professional baseball player spoke to larger crowds than he played for | 602 |
Capital punishment was freely administered in eighteenthcentury England | 604 |
How would you like to have a godly theologian lead your nation? | 606 |
Where did the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church come from? | 608 |
What kind of people does God use to fulfill his purposes? | 610 |
He was proceeding toward ordination in the Church of Scotland when he experienced the first of several mental breakdowns | 612 |
What do a lapsed Baptist a member of the English landed gentry and the inventor of synthetic acetate have in common? | 614 |
What a year can make | 616 |
The drinking of wine signaled both the beginning and the end of the spiritual pilgrimage of one of Englands greatest preachers | 618 |
The God who controls the winds controls the nations | 620 |
When God choose people he often choose the most unlikely ones | 622 |
God works through familiesregardless of how dysfunctional they may be | 624 |
To have faith or not to have faiththat is the question | 626 |
What would it have been like to spend a day with George Whitefield the famous Anglican evangelist of the Great Awakening? | 628 |
On this day was born a man whom God used to change the course of history | 630 |
For the first time in recorded history free men covenanted together to form a civil government with the authority to enact laws that the people promis... | 632 |
When God prompts you to pray for someone youd best take heed | 634 |
God is the business of changing lives | 636 |
Whats it like to starve? | 638 |
One of the most famous Christian authors actually wrote only me booka book that most of his readers have never heard of | 640 |
God used hymns in an unexpected way to save Protestantism in Germany | 642 |
How did a Gypsy boy grow up to be a great evangelist? | 644 |
I Benjamin take thee Annie to be my wedded wife to have and to hold from his day forward for better or for worse for richer or for poorer in sickne... | 646 |
Do you know why most English towns have a Havelock Street Road or Square? | 648 |
Did you know that the author of many of your favorite hymns was blind? | 650 |
What would it be like to live by faith telling your needs only to God and to no one else? | 652 |
Who died on November 22 1963? | 654 |
It is said that in life we pick our battles but what if Satan picks us? | 656 |
Playing second fiddle is a timehonored profession | 658 |
People judge by outward appearance but the Lord looks at a persons thoughts and intentions 1 Samuel 167 | 660 |
William Grimshaws funeral turned out very different from the one he had planned | 662 |
If you had just listened to the best sermon you had ever heard telling you what the will of God was what would you do? | 664 |
Trusting the wrong person can be a fatal mistake | 666 |
Some important stories dont make the news | 668 |
Almost everything in life pales in comparison to our love for our children and grandchildren | 670 |
When peace like a river attendeth my way When sorrows like sea billows roll | 672 |
He was no stranger to the Bible or to church but at the age of seventeen he was still a stranger to a personal walk with God | 674 |
He was born in obscurity for a day that would live in infamy | 676 |
O for Friday O Lord give me patience to await thy appointed time | 678 |
About the year 1800 the mother of Allen Gardiner entered her little boys bedroom and found him sleeping on the cold hard floor | 680 |
We dont know where theyre going but were going to heaven | 682 |
God promised good things to come | 684 |
Being the author of bestselling books didnt prevent him from experiencing persecution | 686 |
The Bible meant everything to Ulrich Zwingli and the sword meant more than it probably should have | 688 |
It was the first academic presentation of Protestantism in France and it wasnt well received | 690 |
Forging a new life in a new land was fraught with danger | 692 |
She stood just four feet three inches tall | 694 |
Not many believe they have heard the voice of God | 696 |
Songwriter Philipp bliss didnt like the unusual spelling of his first name so as an adult he began using the extra P as a middle initial | 698 |
The grace of God was truly a sweet sound in the ears of John Newton | 700 |
It all happened just as the Bible said it would | 702 |
Queen Mary perceived him as a serious threat to her reign | 704 |
Who are the Good Shepherds sheep? | 706 |
Everything that could possibly go wrong did | 708 |
In spite of his limitations he answered Gods call | 710 |
My memory is nearly gone but I remember two things that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Saviour | 712 |
He was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland on 1661 at the age of twenty and preached in his last public sermon at the age of twentyone | 714 |
Why were they risking their lives for the chance of making contact with the Aucas? | 716 |
The downpour of rain and snow turned into a downpour of bombs | 718 |
There had been silence for fortyfive years | 720 |
Moodys transformation from businessman to Sunday school teacher world evangelist and spiritual giant could not be denied | 722 |
Theological ideas alone cannot save but they can be the seeds of spiritual transformation | 724 |
His religion was real | 726 |
As Judson faced the chains again his heart quaked | 728 |
When Titus Flavius Vespasianus was born on December 30 AD 39 no one suspected that he would one day fulfill prophecies of Jesus | 730 |
Boyles Keen mind was continually drawn to science | 732 |
OF GOD AND THE ELEMENTS | 733 |
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF EVENTS | 735 |
KEY TO SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS | 757 |
SOURCES | 759 |
NOTES | 787 |
INDEX | 793 |
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