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Breaking the bounds
Published: 23rd Sep 2012
WE LIVE IN days of great social upheaval. The late 1100s were much the same. There was a great migration away from rural life and into the towns, where a new “middle class” of merchants and craftsmen evolved. Also, the Crusades had led thousands of men to their death, leaving an imbalance of women.
The Church was not well placed to cope with this new climate. For centuries,...
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Gratitude in the darkest hour
Published: 24th Jan 2012
HUMANLY speaking, Martin Rinkart (1586-1649) was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In God's plan, though, he was in the right place and destined to be a shining example of gratitude to God in the direst of circumstances.
He had just been made Lutheran minister of the walled town of Eilenburg, north-east of Leipzig, when the Thirty Years War broke out. It lasted for the rest of...
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Simple
Published: 21st Sep 2011
BASIL of Caesarea, Church Father and theologian, wrote his sermon To the Rich sixteen centuries ago, but the context was strikingly similar to today.
"Those who have recently grown rich desire more of the same... They ought to be happy and contented, but immediately they yearn to be equal with the super-rich." Meanwhile, "thousands huddle in misery in doorways....
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Women with a warcry!
Published: 16th Jun 2011
“THE QUESTION in most churches which are at all earnest in their work is how to reach the masses.”
This isn’t some present-day church growth article; it comes from an English newspaper, The Northern Daily Express and was written in March 1879, as part of a report on early Salvation Army meetings in Gateshead in the Northeast of England.
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So nearly a failure
Published: 12th Jan 2011
FOR SEVEN years, missionary William Carey had not a single convert.
Carey, shoemaker and Baptist pastor from Northamptonshire, England, had taken his family to India as missionaries in 1793. They'd settled at Serampore, West Bengal.
Then funds ran out, leaving him and his family destitute; his wife, Dorothy, became severely depressed; three of their children died.
Yet...
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