Easy Church History: As A Parent Would You Pray This Way? #churchhistory
It's amazing to think that in the middle of the 19th century it was common for parents to pray that God would give them children to send to far away places.
Charles Spurgeon once took an enormous amount of flak for calling out the drift of churches and institutions away from God. Yet his warning still rings true today!
Jonathan Edwards is famous for "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God," but his actually most purchased book was not a sermon, but the Diary of David Brainerd. It helped kick off the interest in worldwide missions in the 19th century!
Jonathan Edwards is famous today for "Sermons in the Hands of an Angry God," but in the 1700s his most published book was the diary of a dying missionary named David Brainerd.