Past Masters

John Knox first appeared on the stage of history bearing the two-handed great sword as bodyguard to reformer George Wisehart. Canon law forbad priests to carry a weapon, but Knox, already disgusted with Rome, was committed to reforming Scotland. For five weeks Wisehart and his...

For years, my grandparents had a sign in their yard that read, "Done Ploughing." Had my grandfather been a preacher in the sixteenth century, Hugh Latimer would have taken issue with that sign. Hugh Latimer (1490?-1555), the most illustrious preacher of the English...

Few smaller areas of the world have ever seen the prodigous renaissance in Biblical preaching that Scotland saw in the 18th and 19th centuries. With her divinity halls filled with converts from the Great Awakening and the Moody evangelistic crusades. Scotland saw the early dissipation of this...

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was born in Boston into an old Brahmin family. His parents had been Unitarian but became Episcopalian. Brooks, baptized a Unitarian, was educated at the Boston Latin School (where he later taught without success), Harvard University and the Virginia Theological Seminary i

When the history of twentieth century Southern Baptist preaching is written, one name will stand at the top of the list: W. A. Criswell. Here was a man who preached for more than three-quarters of a century and who on October 6, 1944, at the age of 34, preached his...

On Interpreter's wall hung a portrait of a grave man. He "had eyes uplift to Heaven, the best of Books in his hand, the law of Truth was written upon his lips, the world was behind his back; it stood as if it pleaded with men, and a crown of gold did hang over...

This preacher is of interest to all students of the craft if only because he was one of the most widely heard English preachers in the post-World War II years. In his masterly chronicle entitled A History of Pastoral Care in America, E. Brooks Holifield describes...

George Whitefield: Evangelist Of The Great Awakening

The formal occasion of this article celebrates the tricentennial of John Wesley's birth. John Wesley is know primarily today as both an Anglican church reformer and the founder of a sect - later to become a church denomination - the Methodists. What is important to note, however, is that neither

Although Charles Haddon Spurgeon was often called "The Last of the Puritans," the title probably better belongs to D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981), whose strategic ministry at the heart of London spoke to the nation and impacted the entire world (and still does through his tapes and printed se