Category: 11 | Church History

In 1941, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. It would last close to a year and prove disastrous for the Nazi army. Facing a Russian winter and stretched well beyond its supply lines, the operation cost Hitler close to one million men and eventually led to his defeat in…

The story is told of two monks who were looking at a large cathedral in Rome. After pondering its gold and marble and beautiful architecture, one turned to the other and said, “No more can we say with Peter, ‘Silver and gold have I none.’” The other monk nodded his head in agreement and then…

There is a running joke at my church that whenever our pastor wears a dark suit on Sunday morning, the congregation can expect a “heavy” sermon.  This observation is repeated from the pulpit by the pastor himself, and it is usually accompanied by a message on the depravity of man, spiritual threats facing today’s society,…

October 31 is a special day for many people in the world. ((Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, I do not have access to my library as I am writing this so some of the quotations and information will not be cited like a normal JTST article. The quotations are from a sermon I preached at…

In his book, No Place for Truth, David Wells tells about the shock a Puritan would experience if he were suddenly transported to the Modern Age. He writes that: The Congregational church was visually the town’s center. One of the first things the Puritans had always done when building a new town was to establish…