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This is the day that … Jerome died in AD 420, at the age of 89.
Born in Europe just 300 years after the birth of Christ, Jerome had a good education and learned several languages.
At the age of 18 he was baptised and joined the church, probably just to please his godly parents!
He writes [...]

This is the day that … Torial Joss was born in Scotland, in 1731.
After his father’s death, young Joss ran away to sea and was captured, and imprisoned, by the French.
Back in Scotland – aged 15! – he was press-ganged on to a man-of-war – escaped, and at a place called “Robin Hood’s Bay” (on [...]

The Beatles made a huge hit singing “Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away”. And others waxed poetic about how “Yesterday’s gone” and how they remember “Yesterday when I was young” and so on.
Yesterday’s Hold
The reason “yesterday” has such a hold on people’s lives is that we all carry the past into the present [...]

This is the day that … Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was born in New York State, in 1839.
She was the middle of three children born to Josiah and Mary Willard in Churchville.
Being a red-headed tomboy, she preferred to be called “Frank”, but the day came when she outgrew that stage. “Next to being an [...]

We live in a Fatherless World, as I explained in a recent post. So, how do fathers and sons work together to create this fatherless situation? That’s the question I want to explain in this update posting.
Fatherless-ness Defined
Fatherless-ness is the condition of being with the true fathering which God intended. Fathering is a divine calling [...]

This is the day that … Henry Moorhouse was born in 1840, in Manchester, England.
For the first 20 years of his life he was constantly in trouble and in prison more than once. But at the age of 21 “in the engine room of a warehouse,” a young Christian pointed him to Romans 10:9: “If [...]

This is the day that … Wilson Carlile died, in 1942.
Carlile was born in Brixton, London on 14 January, 1847. His favourite toy as a child, he tells us, was Joey Billy, a wooden doll that he played with until “arms and legs and hair had been lost.” But, adds Carlile, “Joey Billy taught me [...]

Everyone has their own way of assessing things. We judge all manner of things by first impression, speech, attitudes, dress, facial expression and so on. So how does God want us to be evaluated?
God’s Litmus Test
Jesus Christ explained that there is a litmus test by which we would be evaluated. That process was one that [...]

This is the day that … Cleland Boyd McAfee was born in Montana, USA, in 1866.
The son of a minister, Cleland pursued ministry, as did his brothers and other relatives, and rose to the pinnacle of the American Presbyterian Church which he served. His life was spent in the pulpit, the class and the study. [...]

This is the day that … Charles Simeon was born in 1759.
The place was Reading, England, and the aristocratic home in which young Charles was reared was one of ‘affluence’.
It was during his education at Kings College, Cambridge that he was wonderfully converted through the reading of a sermon on the subject of the scapegoat [...]