Joseph Haydn was born on March 31, 1732, in Austria. He died on May 31, 1809, which means the bicentennial of his death is coming up this summer. Start listening now so you'll be ready for the big Haydn go seek party. There's plenty of Haydn music to choose from, much of it exquisitely good for casual listening: concertos, string quartets, piano trios, symphonies, etc.
But i...
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I preached in the Biola chapel last Wednesday morning on the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Two weeks ago was our missions conference, and this week is our social justice chapel series, so my sermon was attempting to bridge the topics of missions and social justice. What is the link between the two? The Second Greatest Commandment: “Love your neighbor.” The Parable of ...
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Today is the birthday of Moses Maimonides (born March 30, 1135, died 1204), the twelfth-century Sephardic Jewish intellectual who wrote The Guide for the Perplexed, which was a very influential book for international philosophical theology in the late middle ages and beyond.
In the history of Jewish thought, Maimonides is often referred to as the Rambam (an acrostic shorteni...
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Mr. Robert Thomas Llizo
Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History
Professor at the Torrey Honors Institute
March 25 is a significant day for many Greek Orthodox Christians, since on this date two big events are remembered, one which has universal significance for all of Christendom, and the other which more specifically has an impact on the Greek nation and people. On ...
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Charles Wesley (born 1707, died March 29, 1788) lived a long and fruitful life, died peacefully at home, and was buried in the yard of his parish church. His family was gathered around him and some of them wrote descriptions of how he died. His death was not really remarkable except that it was such a remarkably Christian way of dying. His attending physician said "He possessed...
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Donald Grey Barnhouse (March 28, 1895, died 1960) is best remembered as the pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and his most far-reaching ministry was through the radio show "The Bible Study Hour" (later re-named Dr. Barnhouse and the Bible). Among his many books, the most important is probably his four-volume homiletic commentary on Romans.
Because of his s...
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Francis Nathan Peloubet (1831-March 27, 1920) decided the most strategic thing he could do as a pastor was to train Sunday School teachers how to teach the Bible to their students well. So he travelled and lectured, wrote books and articles about it, and networked inter-denominationally to support the Sunday School movement any way he could. But mostly he published Notes: Pelou...
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Satan’s existence is suggested by human experience and the Bible and is confirmed by reading the Washington Post. The Post is almost surely not a particularly diabolical organ, but it does report the news, and the news often shows signs of the demonic.
The bad news about the world is evidence for evil that goes beyond the merely human. The Devil is a spiritual being gone w...
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To thee, who from the narrow road
In sinful ways so long hast trod,
How kindly speaks thy Father, God,
"My son, give Me thy heart."
"My son!" O word of mighty grace,
That children of our mortal race,
With sons of God may take their place --
"My son, give Me thy heart."
How great that Father's love must be,
How fond his yearnings after thee,
That he should say so t...
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Dawson Trotman (born March 25, 1906, died 1956) was the founder of the Navigators, a Christian ministry that is famous for Scripture memorization and one-on-one discipleship. Both of those emphases seem to have flowed directly from the personal charisma of Daws, as his friends called him and as his biography is entitled.
Converted as a young adult, Trotman studied at the Bib...
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Q. What do the 27th and 28th verses of First Corinthians 7 mean? i.e., do they release one in such a case from Matthew 5:32?
A. They certainly do not. They simply teach that if a man is not under obligation to a wife through having one living, he has a right to marry, and that if a woman is in a similar case, or a virgin, she has a right to marry. This is what it says, and t...
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Fanny J. Crosby (born March 24, 1820, died 1915) was the prolific blind hymn-writer who captured the ethos of late nineteenth-century evangelicalism and set it to music.
We had to wait until just a few years ago for a substantive critical biography of Crosby: In 2005, Edith L. Blumhofer published Her Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby. It's an exemplary ...
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