Monthly Archives: February 2005

From Bedford Jail

2/3/2005 – 3:55 pm

In 1922 The Baptist Young Peoples Union of the Southern Baptist Convention, published a study course using John Bunyan’s classic “Pilgrims Progress.” The introduction included the image of the Bedford Jail (pictured above) and a brief biographical sketch (below). L P. Leavell, secretary of the BYPU, offered the course and said, “Certainly no young [...]

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Most Influential Evangelicals in America

2/2/2005 – 12:34 pm

Time Magazine has published a list of the 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson didn’t make the cut. I would have liked to have seen John Macarthur, John Piper, R. C. Sproull, and Al Mohler on the list. Time pointed to Howard & Roberta Ahmanson, David Barton, Doug Coe, [...]

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Adoniram Judson

2/1/2005 – 9:52 am

Two-hundred years ago, not one Christian church stood in the “Golden Land of Myanmar,” then called Burma. Not one Christian voice could be heard lifting praise to the God of Heaven and Earth. As John Piper says, “missions exist because worship doesn’t.” God used the life and sufferings of missionary Adoniram Judson [...]

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