Results for: "Christian Biography"

April Articles, Christian Biography, Christian Calendar, Christian Living, History of Hymns, Music

April 16, 2013 George Beverly Shea Passes Away Though known to millions, George Beverly Shea (February 1, 1909 – April 16, 2013) never forgot, nor was ashamed of his humble Christian upbringing. Years ago, our family began to observe the practice of reading a history of a hymn for family devotions. It was our custom to select a hymn story on Saturday evening, in part to prepare our...Read more... Read more...

Christian Biography, Christian Living, Devotional Literature

In the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. there resides a full-body statue of General Lew Wallace, Civil War hero and author of the literary classic, Ben Hur. The story behind the composition of this time-honored classic is one worthy of being rehearsed on a regular basis, and no season of the year is more fitting for its telling than the Easter...Read more... Read more...

Christian Biography, Christian History, Christian Living, Denominations & Sects of the Church, Methodist churches

March 31, 1816 Death of Francis Asbury Francis Asbury (August 20, 1745 – March 31, 1816) is remembered most for the leadership he provided to early American Methodism. Asbury must not be associated with the theologians of Methodism. Like Jabez Bunting among the British Wesleyan Methodists, Asbury was a great churchman within the American Methodist Episcopal Church. He was one of...Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Christian Biography, Christian History, Post Series Category, System

Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809 to November 16, 1894) was an American lawyer, politician, and philanthropist who at one point in his political career rose to the office of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Like most who lived during the Founding Era of the United States, Winthrop was concerned about the moral character of America’s development. As was...Read more... Read more...

American Christianity, Christian Biography, Christian History, Post Series Category, System

Many American Founding Fathers have been villainized and ridiculed by secularists and the irreligious who have been attempting to erase the facts concerning America’s Christian origin. Because nearly all of America’s Founding Fathers were Christian—at least in a nominal sense—it is difficult for secularists to provide evidence to sustain their un-American and non-historical...Read more... Read more...