Provided by Â D.A. LaGue As a group of African-Americans knelt for morning prayers in 1787, ushers tapped them on the shoulder and demanded that they move to the balcony so...

Ministry

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Historical Renewal Friday: Henrietta Mears

Provided by Â D.A. LaGue A Sunday school teacher full of energy and contagious enthusiasm would stamp an indelible mark on twentieth-century Christian education and motivate...

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Church History

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Historical Renewal Friday: William Wilberforce

Provided by Â D.A. LaGue [display_podcast] Can a man be a Christian and a politician?Â This question plagued a rising member of the English parliament in 1785, as the young...

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Church History

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Historical Renewal Friday: Polycarp

Provided by Â D.A. LaGue [display_podcast] In 155 A.D., an eighty-six year old man was brought out to the jeers of a crowded Roman arena.Â As he was about to be nailed to a...

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Text Criticism

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Historical Renewal Friday: Lobegott Tischendorf

Provided by Â D.A. LaGue [display_podcast]Â In 1841, a young scholar sent a letter to his fiancÃ©e, â€˜I am confronted with a sacred task,â€™ he wrote, â€˜the struggle to...

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Church History

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Historical Renewal Friday: Athanasius

Provided by Â D.A. LaGueÂ [display_podcast] In 367 A.D. a Bishop of the church in Alexandria, Egypt was forced to live in exile for defending his belief – that Jesus...

Historical Renewal Friday: Jonathan Edwards

Provided by Â D.A. LaGue [display_podcast] In 1734, Jonathan Edwards, theologian and colonial pastor in Northampton Massachusetts, found his congregation in an â€˜unusual...

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Church History

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Friday’s are for Historical Renewal!

Provided by Â D.A. LaGue [display_podcast] On August 7th, 1768, a ship from Glasgow, Scotland sailed up the Delaware River bound for Philadelphia. On board was a 46 year old...

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