Tag: reformation
True Revival – Mark Finley
All true revival is characterized by three things: earnest, heartfelt prayer; a deep searching of the Bible; and a passionate commitment to win lost people. These three essentials of true revival are manifest in the disciples’ experience in Acts. Jesus’ promise of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit was not given without conditions. The disciples were to wait not in idleness but in united, earnest prayer and heartfelt supplication. And they did! The Acts narrative records, “These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers” (Acts 1:14).*
At the right moment, when the Redeemer was exalted at God’s throne and the acceptance of His sacrifice acknowledged by the Father before the entire universe, the Holy Spirit was poured out in its fullness. Like these early disciples, we are counseled, “It is our work, by confession, humiliation, repentance, and earnest prayer, to fulfill the conditions upon which God has promised to grant us His blessing. A revival need be expected only in answer to prayer” (Selected Messages, book 1, p. 121). Without the empowerment of the Holy Spirit through prayer, we are powerless to face Satan’s temptations and incapable of being effective witnesses for the Master.
Edinburgh – Harold Harker
Edinburgh seems to have changed hands more times than most cities. The English raiding from south of the border captured the city in the seventh century AD. Recovered by the Scots in the 10th century, it was taken, pillaged and razed again in 1296, 1385, 1547 and in 1650. Little wonder many Scots today want to be independent!
The English called it “Eiden’s Burgh” (or fort) when they first captured it. Edinburgh was a natural place for a fort or castle and the Scots built the castle in the late 11th century.
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The Scots – Harold Harker
The Scots have for millennia been independent-minded, today demonstrated in a national yearning for political independence. But these courageous Celts, along with their beloved heather, pipes and tartan, have also held a strong Christian faith. Celtic Christianity was introduced to Scotland by Columba, from Ireland, in the fifth century. Iona was a staging post for the Christianisation of Scotland. When after the Synod of Whitby (663-64), as King Oswiu accepted the jurisdiction of the church of Rome, the original Celtic Christianity retreated to Scotland and Wales. Among the Scots, many remained faithful to the teachings of the apostolic church, for example, observing the seventhday of the week as the Sabbath.
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Heroes of Faith – Harold Harker
Hidden in the valleys of the southern slopes of the European Alps of Italy, tight against the French border, live a people with an amazing history. Known as the Waldenses, these progeny of Peter Waldo of Lyons, France, live amid a vista of steep-sided valleys, rushing streams and snow-capped peaks. The mountain passes into France and Switzerland are high and difficult, but below them forests of beech and chestnut grow and cattle graze. The cold, pristine air invigorates.
But against this same backdrop, in these same valleys some 400 years ago, innocents were slaughtered and the stream flowed with blood. language along with the concept of freedom of conscience and to worship—or not—as we please.
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