Robert Morrison, Anglo-Scottish evangelist and first Protestant missionary to China “on July 16, 1814, at a spot on the steep hills and gullies along the shore of Macao, a place seldom reached by crowds of people, . . . baptized Cai Gao, who on that day became the first of millions of Chinese Christians.” Learn more about Robert Morrison here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morrison_(missionary) and read this article link to find out more about Cai Gao, first Chinese evangelical Protestant.Cai Gao, first Chinese evangelical Protestant (July 16,…
Robert Morrison, Anglo-Scottish evangelist and first Protestant missionary to China “on July 16, 1814, at a spot on the steep hills and gullies along the shore of Macao, a place seldom reached by crowds of people, . . . baptized Cai Gao, who on that day became the first of millions of Chinese Christians.” Learn more about Robert Morrison here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morrison_(missionary) and read this article link to find out more about Cai Gao, first Chinese evangelical Protestant.
Christian congregational worship is Spirit-gathered, Spirit-dependent, Spirit-engendered, and Spirit-empowered, because left to ourselves we will not worship the right object, according to the right standard, for the right motivation(s), through the right means and to the right end. It is the Holy Spirit who creates, enables and energizes our desire and capacity to worship. By his ministry we are ushered into God’s presence and commune with him. The is one of the lessons of Jesus’ words in John 4:24 “God is spirit, and those who…
Dr. David L. Wykes, BSc (Dunelm), PhD (Leicester), FRHistS, is Director of Dr Williams’s Library, and Co-Director of the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. He gave the second plenary of the Matthew Henry tercentenary (being hosted by the University of Chester, the University of Manchester and the Chester Cathedral Library) on the subject of “Matthew Henry: Minister and Preacher.” He has written more than fifty entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Here is his entry on Matthew Henry.
Christian public worship ought to be simple. It should not seek to add to the elements warranted by Scripture or to elaborate forms not endorsed by the word. This is just the faithful application of the general biblical principle that we have nothing…
I want to introduce you to my friend and colleague Dr. Scott Redd, President and Associate Professor of Old Testament at the Washington campus of Reformed Theological Seminary. Scott previously taught Old Testament and served as Dean of Students…
What qualities should a public worship service evidence? What ought to be its essential characteristics? With the principles in mind that we have already articulated, let us consider a non-exhaustive list of qualities that we aspire to in…
Isaac Watts (1674-1748) is probably best known to you as a great hymnwriter (think “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” and “Joy to the World”), but did you know that he was a faithful preacher too? Dr. Matthew McKellar of Southwestern Baptist…
A few months ago, Daniel Darling (of the ERLC) wrote a special for the CNN Belief Blog called “Millennials and the false ‘gospel of nice.'” You can go directly to that article here:…
Protestants have always believed that how we worship, the manner of our public worship, matters. The main reason for this is because Protestants believe that the Bible itself, in both the Old and New Testaments, commands a number of important things…