John Huffman

Cyrus McCormick: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

A row of sweating men toiled in the hot sun, reaping their wheat. With one hand they grasped a handful…

4 years ago

Daniel Lindley: Making Every Sacrifice

On December 9, 1833, a young Presbyterian pastor named Daniel Lindley offered his services to the American Board of Foreign…

4 years ago

John Pelham: I Can Hold My Ground

The sun dawned slowly upon a grim scene.  It was December 13, 1862.  The rising sun painted the fog of…

4 years ago

Captain Allen Gardiner: Hope Deferred, Not Lost

A rescue ship drifted slowly toward a rocky coastline at “the end of the earth.”  Long feared by sailors for…

4 years ago

Justus Jonas: Semper Reformanda

Martin Luther was dying.  It was late February 1546.  Beside the bed of Luther sat one of his most faithful…

7 years ago

Henry Spalding: Inured to Hardship

All was deathly silent in the small village of Kamiah, in what would one day be the state of Idaho.…

7 years ago

Thomas Cranmer: Out of Weakness He Was Made Strong

The book of Hebrews speaks of men of faith “who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the…

7 years ago

Nicholas Ridley: Play the Man

In the last issue, we considered the life of Latimer.  We turn now to the life of Ridley, Latimer’s faithful…

7 years ago

Hugh Latimer: A Candle That Will Never Go Out

Two men stood back to back at the stake.  As a large crowd watched, a heavy chain was passed around their…

8 years ago

John Bunyan: Venture All for God

The sound of psalms wafted through the open windows of a country cottage near Bedford, England in 1675. A small…

8 years ago

Martin Luther: The 500th Anniversary

This year, 2017, marks an important year in the history of God’s providential dealings with man. This is the 500th…

8 years ago

John Knox: Give Me Scotland Ere I Die

  A French warship drifted slowly along the coast of Scotland, ominously symbolizing the bondage of the Scottish people. It…

8 years ago