Bruce’s Bible
Open Your Bible
Category: Books – reading and writing
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Dietrich Bonhoeffer German theologian and resister1906-1945 “Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession…. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” “The time is fulfilled for the… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
Fox’s Book of Martyrs
https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/foxs-book-of-martyrs/ Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die — one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when “a noble army, men and boys, the… Continue Reading “Fox’s Book of Martyrs”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley English reformers who died together1485-1555 “Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out.” Their lives didn’t… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
Fox’s Book of Martyrs
https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/foxs-book-of-martyrs/ Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die — one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when “a noble army, men and boys, the… Continue Reading “Fox’s Book of Martyrs”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Thomas Cranmer Genius behind Anglicanism 1489-1556 “Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them….” Thomas Cranmer, seated in an Oxford cell before… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
Fox’s Book of Martyrs
https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/foxs-book-of-martyrs/ Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die — one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when “a noble army, men and boys, the… Continue Reading “Fox’s Book of Martyrs”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Jan Huss Pre-Reformation Reformer1369-1415 “Lord Jesus, it is for thee that I patiently endure this cruel death. I pray thee to have mercy on my enemies.” Early in his monastic career, Martin Luther, rummaging through the stacks of a library, happened upon a volume… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
Fox’s Book of Martyrs
https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/foxs-book-of-martyrs/ Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die — one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when “a noble army, men and boys, the… Continue Reading “Fox’s Book of Martyrs”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Thomas Becket Murdered archbishop of Canterbury1118-1170 “For the name of Jesus and the protection of the church I am ready to embrace death.” In this century, the Nobel laureate T.S. Eliot dramatized Thomas Becket’s martyrdom in his play Murder in the Cathedral, and Jean… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”