Oral History Podcast

An Oral History of the Church is a conversational church history podcast coming from a Christian historiographic perspective. Tweets by @ChristmanAdam

[Oral History Podcast @OralHistoryPod]

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Episode 69: Isaac Watts' sermon "Holy Fortitude, or Remedies Against #Fear"
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[George MacDonald @gmacdonaldquote]

How strange this fear of death is! Yet we are never frightened at a sunset.

[The Imitation of Christ @thomaskempis1]

Every action of yours, every thought, should be those of a man who expects to die before the day is out.

[For The Church @forthechurch]

Today is the five-year anniversary of For The Church.

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[Leonard Ravenhill @ravenhillquotes]

There’s going to come an awakening. God Almighty doesn’t care if he sends America bankrupt. He doesn’t care if we have to stand in bread lines. He doesn’t care if our automobiles rust because we have no gasoline.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

75 years ago today, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by hanging. While being led away, he turned to fellow prisoner Payne Best: “This is the end—for me the beginning of life.”

After the war, a concentration-camp medical doctor reflected on the German pastor’s final moments.

[Shai Linne @ShaiLinne]

Martin Luther, writing during the Bubonic plague of the 1500’s:

[Philosophy Muse @philosophy_muse]

The things that we love tell us what we are. Thomas Aquinas

[Banner of Truth @banneroftruth]

Sympathy is a debt we owe to sufferers.

—William Secker

[Leonard Ravenhill @ravenhillquotes]

You know, maybe today you and I passed up a treasure. If we’d had just a little more compassion for that person. “Oh, well, I may lose my job.” Lose it! You’re better to lose your job than lose your crown!

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

Of all the Fairy Tales none contains so vital a moral truth as the old story of Beauty and the Beast. There is written, with all the authority of a human scripture, the eternal and essential truth that until we love a thing in all its ugliness we cannot make it beautiful.

[Reformed Seminary @ReformTheoSem]

“He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.”

– Abraham Kuyper

[Banner of Truth @banneroftruth]

If you look past the world, you put your head up into eternity.

—Thomas Goodwin

[SBC History @SBCHistory]

OTD in 1800 William Carey Baptized Krishna Paul, the first person to come to salvation under Carey’s ministry in India. Carey labored for 7 years before seeing this first salvation.

[SBC History @SBCHistory]

On this day in 1934, missionaries John and Betty Stam were beheaded by Chinese communists during that nation’s civil war. They had been married just one year. A generation later, Chip Stam served on the @SBTS faculty and Skip Stam would serve as trustee.

[SBC History @SBCHistory]

"How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God." Lottie Moon

[CrossPoints eBooks @Cross_Points]

Kindle Deal: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by JI Packer (foreword by @MarkDever) https://t.co/cxv6JJIh63

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The man who sees nothing wrong in himself is the one man who is really wrong.

[Banner of Truth @banneroftruth]

Times are bad, God is good.

—𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑺𝒊𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒔