F. B. Meyer
F. B. Meyer
1847 - 1929
"LIFE'S MOTTO: "Make the most of me that can be made for Thy glory."
One of the greatly loved preachers of his day, Frederick Brotherton Meyer was a pastor, author, ... read more
Felix Adler
Born: August 13, 1851, Alzey, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany.
Died: April 24, 1933, New York City.
Son of a rabbi, Adler emigrated to America in 1857, and graduated from Columbia College in 1870. He founded the New York Society for Ethi ... read more
Frances Jane Crosby
Born: March 24, 1820, Putnam County, New York.
Died: February 12, 1915, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Buried: Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Fanny Crosby w ... read more
Francis
Francis was born in 1182, the son of a wealthy cloth merchant. His early years were frivolous, but an experience of sickness and another of military service were instrumental in leading him to reflect on the purpose of life. One day, in the church of San ... read more
Francis Asbury
Francis Asbury
1745-1816
The founding father of American Methodism. Francis Asbury was born in England. He was converted to Christ at the age of 13, and soon began to hold meetings. Wesley licensed him at the age of 18 as a local preacher. As he gre ... read more
Francis Xavier, Ignatius Loyola
Francis Xavier, or Francisco do Yasu y Javier, was a Basque. (The Basques are a people from the region of Biscay in northern Spain, whose language is unrelated to any other known language.) He was born in 1506 and studied at the University of Paris, where ... read more
Franz Jägerstätter
Franz Jägerstätter was an Austrian Christian executed for his refusal to serve in the armies of the Third Reich. He was born out of wedlock in 1907 in the small town of St. Radegund (47:11 N 15:29 E), about 13 kilometers north of Graz. His natural father ... read more
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
1768-1834
The German preacher and philosopher Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher is often called the leading 19th-century theologian of the Protestant church. Schleiermacher was born on November 21, 17 ... read more
G.K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (usually called G.K. Chesterton or simply GKC) was born in London in 1874. He became a well-known writer and lecturer. He was officially received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1922, but had been writing from a Romanist point o ... read more
George Mueller
George Mueller
1805-1898
GEORGE MüLLER, MAN OF FAITH AND PRAYER
Orphans
THE ORPHAN CHILDREN all had their dinners and were ready for bed. They always felt loved and cared for in the Bristol orphanage; little did they know that the orphana ... read more
George Nelson Allen
Born: September 7, 1812, Mansfield, Massachusetts.
Died: December 9, 1877, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Buried: Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin, Ohio.
Allen studied music in Boston, Massachusetts, under Lowell Mason. In 1837, Allen became ... read more
George Whitefield
George Whitefield was born in Gloucester, England, the son of a saloon operator. He was converted to Christ in 1733 and shortly afterwards entered Oxford Univer-sity, where he fellowshipped with the Wesley brothers, John and Charles. His ministry began wi ... read more
Gladys Aylward
Gladys Aylward was born in London in 1904 (or a few years earlier). She worked for several years as a parlormaid, and then attended a revival meeting at which the preacher spoke of dedicating one's life to the service of God. Gladys responded to the mess ... read more
Gregory of Nyssa
Gregory of Nyssa (c330-c395), his brother Basil the Great, and Basil's best friend Gregory of Nazianzus, are known collectively as the Cappadocian Fathers. They were a major force in the triumph of the Athanasian position at the Council of Constantinople ... read more
Gregory of Nyssa
There is a traditional list of eight great Doctors (Teachers, Theologians) of the ancient Church. It lists four Western (Latin) Doctors -- Ambrose of Milan, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome of Strido, and Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I) -- and four Eastern ( ... read more
Gregory the Great
Only two popes, Leo I and Gregory I, have been given the popular title of "the Great." Both served during difficult times of barbarian invasions in Italy; and during Gregory's term of office, Rome was also faced with famine and epidemics.
Gregory ... read more
Griffith Jones
Griffith Jones
1683 - 1761
All who thank God for the 18th century revival long to see its flames leap across two centuries and set ablaze today's frozen church and wooden-hearted society. Hoping to gain information and insp ... read more
Griffith Jones 1683 - 1761
Griffith Jones
1683 - 1761
All who thank God for the 18th century revival long to see its flames leap across two centuries and set ablaze today's frozen church and wooden-hearted society. Hoping to gain information and insp ... read more
Hans Nielsen Hauge
Hans Nielsen Hauge was born in 1771 in rural Norway, about fifty miles from Oslo. He had little formal education, but was a skilled carpenter and repairman, and was thus economically secure. He was reared in a devout home, and as a young man he did much r ... read more
Heinrich Albert
Born: June 28, 1604, Lobenstein, Germany.
Died: October 6, 1651, Königsberg, Germany.
Albert started his career as a musician under Schütz in Dresden in the early 1620s, then studied law in Leipzig for three years. Moving to Königsberg ar ... read more
Helen Cadbury Alexander
Born: January 10, 1877, Birmingham, England.
Died: March 1, 1969, Birmingham, England.
Buried: Lodge Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, England.
Pseudonyms
Mrs. Charles M. Alexander
Mrs. C. M. Alexander
An heiress to the Cadb ... read more
Henry Alford
Born: October 7, 1810, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England.
Died: January 12, 1871, Canterbury, Kent, England. For his own epitaph, he wrote: The inn of a pilgrim traveling to Jerusalem.
Buried: St. Martins, Canterbury, Kent, Eng ... read more
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg is the principal organizer of American Lutheranism. He was born in Einbeck, Germany, in 1711, and studied at Goettingen and at Halle. Lutherans in America at that time were found in a few scattered communities, of various nationa ... read more
Hildegard of Bingen
"Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honor. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and ... read more
Ignatius of Antioch
After the Apostles, Ignatius was the second bishop of Antioch in Syria. His predecessor, of whom little is known, was named Euodius. Whether he knew any of the Apostles directly is uncertain. Little is known of his life except for the very end of i ... read more
Irenaeus
Irenaeus (pronounced eye-ren-EE-S) was probably born around 125. As a young man in Smyrna (near Ephesus, in what is now western Turkey) he heard the preaching of Polycarp, who as a young man had heard the preaching of the Apostle John. Afterward, probably ... read more
Isaac Watts
In the years immediately after the Protestant Reformation, non-Roman Churches in the West were divided on the question of hymns. The Lutherans and Moravians immediately began to develop a rich tradition of hymns in the vernacular. Most of those in the Cal ... read more
J. Hudson Taylor
A mother's prayer: reminiscent of Augustine of Hippo, John Newton and many others, Hudson Tayor's mother prayed and prayed that her son's heart be touched and he become a Christian.
One day whle his mother was out of town, a teenaged Hudson was ... read more
Jakob Boehme
was a German religious mystic from the town of Goerlitz (Zgorzelec in Polish) in Silesia, on the Polish side of the Oder river just across from eastern Germany. A cobbler by profession, he was an autodidact much influenced by Paracelsus, the Kabbala, astr ... read more
James Allen
Born: June 24, 1734, Gayle, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England.
Died: October 31, 1804.
Allen was educated with a view to taking Holy Orders, first with two different clergymen at different times, and then for one year at St. Johns Colleg ... read more
James W. Acuff
Born: 1864, Freestone County, Texas.
Died: August 1, 1937, Georgetown, Texas.
Acuff was a well known singer and song writer among the Churches of Christ in Texas. He wrote several popular Gospel songs, often led the singing for protract ... read more
James Waddel Alexander
Born: March 13, 1804, Hopewell, Virginia.
Died: July 31, 1859, Sweetsprings, Virginia.
Buried: Princeton, New Jersey.
Alexander graduated from Princeton University in 1820. Ordained in 1827, he served as pastor of the First Pr ... read more
Jan Hus
John Huss (Jan Hus) was born in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic) in about 1371. He received a master's degree from Charles University in Prague in 1396, became a professor of theology in 1398, was ordained to the priesthood in 1400, was made rect ... read more
Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr
The Church in Uganda began with the deaths of martyrs (see Martyrs of Uganda, 3 June 1886, and James Hannington and his Companions, Martyrs, 29 October 1885). Around 1900, Uganda became a British protectorate, with the chief of the Buganda tribe as nomina ... read more
Jens Christian Aaberg
Born: November 8, 1877, Moberg, Denmark.
Died: June 22, 1970, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Buried: Sunset Memorial Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Aaberg emigrated to America in 1901 and went to the small, close-knit Danish-American communit ... read more
Jessie Adams
Born: September 9, 1863, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
Died: July 15, 1954, York, England.
Adams, a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), was a progressive teacher, and leader of a local adult school in Frimley, England. She preferred ... read more
John Austin
Born: 1613, Walpole, Norfolk, England.
Died: 1669, Covent Garden, London, England.
Buried: St. Pauls Church, London, England.
Pseudonym: William Birchley.
Austin was educated at St. Johns, Cambridge. He became a Roman Catholic, entered Linco ... read more
John Bunyan
BUNYAN, John, the most popular religious writer in the English language, was born at Elstow, about a mile from Bedford, in the year 1628. He may be said to have been born a tinker. The tinkers then formed a hereditary caste, which was held in no high esti ... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin (Jean Cauvin) was born at Noyon, France on 10 July 1509. At fourteen he was sent to Paris to study theology, and developed a particular interest in the writings of Augustine. He received his Ma when 19. His father then insisted that he take up ... read more
John Chrysostom
John was called "Chrysostom" ("Golden Mouth") because of his eloquence. He was a priest of Antioch, and an outstanding preacher. (Audiences were warned not to carry large sums of money when they went to hear him speak, since pickpockets found it very ... read more
John Climacus
St. John of the Ladder (c. 570/579-649) became a monk at Sinai when he was 16. He became a solitary and remained a hermit for many years. Many monks wanted him as their spiritual father, and St. Gregory the Great requested his prayers. To fullfill the wis ... read more
John G. Lake
John Graham Lake was born on 18 March, 1870, in Ontario, Canada. And in 1886 moved with his family to Michigan. He was one of 16 children. Along with many of his brothers and sisters he developed a strange digestive disease. This disease killed eight of t ... read more
John Greenleaf Adams
Born: 1887, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Ordained in 1833 in Rumney, New Hampshire, Adams served in Claremont, New Hampshire; Providence, Rhode Island; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Malden, Worcester and Lowell, Massachusetts. In New Hampshire, ... read more
John Mott
John Raleigh Mott (May 25, 1865-January 31, 1955) was born of pioneer stock in Livingston Manor, New York, the third child and only son among four children. His parents, John and Elmira (Dodge) Mott, moved to Postville, Iowa, where his father ... read more
John Newton
John Newton who was born in London, [England], July 24, 1725, and died there Dec. 21, 1807, occupied an unique position among the founders of the Evangelical School, due as much to the romance of his young life and the striking history of his conversion, ... read more
John of Damascus
John is generally accounted "the last of the Fathers". He was the son of a Christian official at the court of the moslem khalif Abdul Malek, and succeeded to his father's office.
In his time there was a dispute among Christians between the Iconoc ... read more
John Quincy Adams
Born: July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts.
Died: February 23, 1848, Washington, DC.
Buried: First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts.
Adams was the sixth President of the United States. He wrote a metrical version of the psalms, as w ... read more
John Wyclif
John Wyclif (also spelled Wycliffe, Wycliff, Wicliffe, or Wiclif) was born in Yorkshire around 1330, and was educated at Oxford, becoming a doctor of divinity in 1372.
In 1374, King Edward III appointed him rector of Lutterworth, and later made him ... read more
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards was the last and greatest of the great New England Puritan preachers. Some historians account him the greatest intellect of the Western Hemisphere before 1900. (The achievements of his descendants are such that the Edwards family used to ... read more
Jonathan Myrick Daniels
Jonathan Myrick Daniels was born in New Hampshire in 1939, one of two offspring of a Congregationalist physician. When in high school, he had a bad fall which put him in the hospital for about a month. It was a time of reflection. Soon after, he joined th ... read more
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