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Charles Wesley was born the 18th child of Rev. Samuel and Susanna Wesley on December 18, 1707. He was premature – “several weeks before his time, he appeared more dead than alive. He did not cry, nor open his eyes, and was kept wrapped up in soft wool until the time when he should have [...]

Isobel Selina Miller Kuhn was born on December 17, 1901, in Toronto, Canada, to a Presbyterian
home, where her father was a lay-preacher and her grandfather a Presbyterian minister.
Yet when her English professor at University of British Columbia sneered at her faith she quickly became agnostic, to avoid the shame of Christ. However, she was [...]

George Whitefield was born in Gloucester, England on December 16, 1714, the illegitimate son of an English barmaid.
Whitefield was converted through a Bishop who directed him to John 7:37 “Let the thirsty come to me”. To which Whitefield exclaimed aloud, “I thirst!” This admission of his own hopelessness led to an assurance of God’s grace [...]

Johann Theodorus Vanderkemp (van der Kemp) died on December 15, 1811.
He was born in Rotterdam, Holland, 64 years previously (1747) to a family which stressed academics and religion. His father was a Professor of Theology and his brother was a minister. Johann studied medicine and philosophy in Leyden but ran away from home in his [...]

Griffith John was born in Swansea, Wales on December 14, 1831. His mother died when he was eight months old.
At the age of eight he was admitted to the membership of the Congregationalist Ebenezer Chapel, and by the age of 16 he was known as “the boy preacher”, having first preached at a prayer meeting [...]

Peter Philip Bilhorn died on December 13, 1936.
He was born in Mendota, a little town in Illinois, USA, on 22 July, 1865, three months after his father was killed in the Civil War.
The family had migrated from Swiss Bavaria and their original family name was ‘Pulhorn’. This had been legally changed by a judge in [...]

John Cennick (pronounced ‘Kennick’) was born on December 12, 1718 to Quaker parents who brought him up in the Church of England. At age nine he was impacted by the words of his dying aunt, “Last night the Lord stood by me and invited me to drink of the fountain of life freely and I [...]

David Brewster was born in the Scottish lowlands on December 11, 1781.
Even as a child he showed an interest in things scientific … and it is as a scientist his fame now rests. A child prodigy he built his first telescope at age 10 and so mastered his learning that he was admitted to the [...]

Percy Rush was born in Cheshire, England on December 10, 1882.
His autobiography, Is Not This a Brand, is an incredible saga of redeeming grace …
Reared in a ‘religious’ home, 17 year-old Percy was led to Christ (on 11 May, 1899) by a local preacher, Mr Worthington. Four years later, when the Torrey-Alexander Mission came to [...]

george George Campbell Morgan was born in Gloucestershire, England, on December 9, 1863.
He was to become – to quote Warren Wiersbe – “perhaps the greatest Bible teacher of his day in the English-speaking world,” despite the fact that his trial sermon for the Methodist ministry (on 2 May, 1888) was a disaster and they knocked [...]