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13/08/2024

03/08/2024

Churches often today use sound stages, choreography, light shows, and much more to keep church going.

And yet their sermons usually don't compare to simple pastors hundreds of years ago speaking without a microphone to their audience using just the Scriptures and their studies as their guides.

Inspired by Mere Meerkat's recent meme template.

02/08/2024

A message from Elise:
Hello everybody! I wanted to hop on here and thank you all for praying for me and even financially providing for us this past week as we got doctors, travel and insurance all figured out. And thank you so much, we are so appreciative of you all! I avoided surgery and will be in a boot for the next 6 weeks (4 of those without being able to walk on it at all).

Mira has been stepping up into her role as my assistant chef quite nicely and she made us a sausage and cabbage skillet tonight and it was tasty. Please continue to pray for us as we work on changing up the family dynamic for a while. Also pray for pain management for me, proper bone alignment for optimal healing, and that I would be able to still feel/be productive.

Troy goes back to work on Monday and the kids start back the following week. They're both very excited to see all their friends again. Thank you guys again and please know how very grateful we are for you all!

26/07/2024

Prayer Request!

Elise (host of Martyrs and Missionaries) broke her foot today while playing with the kids.

Having a broken foot is never easy. But in the case of living in Indonesia, this is not a place where handicap accessibility exists.

And we do all of our life on motorcycles (don't own a car). So there's a lot that we'll have to figure out.

But right now, the priority is Elise's foot. She will have to go to Singapore for a possible surgery, and cast (we'll know more tomorrow). We have already consulted with the Singaporean doctor.

Pray for us as we get flights and finances and everything settled. And pray for Elise who is in a lot of pain.

Pray for us to see God's plan in this unpleasant time.

23/07/2024

Today we want to maximize comfort and minimize anything that makes us uncomfortable.

But the early church longed to suffer like Christ did and was disappointed at missed opportunities.

18/07/2024

Elise's latest covers a subject almost never mentioned in Church History:

Russia!

09/07/2024

Legalism is often used against people who are trying to be Biblical.

But there's also no denying that legalism is a thing that often infects a believer's life and robs them of their joy in God.

04/07/2024

I know it's the 4th of July but I got to talk to Jay over at the Reformed Rican about The Great Awakenings!

Listen and learn if you'd like!

Keep up with Troy here:https://open.spotify.com/show/7J4MlbFWrnbJJGEpC7VDOshttps://www.youtube.com/://www.revivedthoughts.com/http://www....

30/06/2024

They seem to be getting angrier at Christians as Christianity continues to have less influence over society than ever.

29/06/2024

Ever wondered what 200+ episodes of Church History podcasting looks like if each person/location was marked on a map to see?

Wonder no more! It looks like this.

It took way too much time to put this together but the end result looks really great on the website and was a lot of fun to see just how much history we've covered from around the world.

29/06/2024

Tag any Johns you know below! They should be a minister, based on Church History.

27/06/2024

He is probably one of the most infamous pastors in church history. At least American history.

History has laid the weight of the Salem Witch Trials on his shoulders, fairly or not. Many know him only from this legend.

Yet he had a different ministry that made him unlike any other pastor I've seen.

In 250+ sermons revived on Revived Thoughts, I've never seen a pastor have a ministry outreach to this group of people.

Cotton Mather, the infamous pastor, would go to pirates and counsel them with the words of Christ.

He would share the good news with these prisoners.

Not the pirates you think of from the movies. The real ones. Smelly. Uneducated. Killers. The vagabonds of society.

Men who gave up sailing the proper way for a quick score. Men who sunk ships and threw people overboard.

When they were rounded up by society their deaths led to cheers among the townsfolk who were happy to see the criminals go.

But it was to that group that the famous, powerful, leader of the New England colonies would sit with. Speak with. Share the Word of God with. Give out his personal books for reading. And pray alongside them.

He'd hear their misgivings. He'd ask for forgiveness. And as they were led away to die he'd give their final sermon.

Try to imagine a big name in Christianity meeting with cartel members in a prison today. Imagine the mega-church pastor in town spending days at a time giving books from his personal collection to Neo-Nazi skinheads.

We can't picture it. But it's exactly what Cotton Mather did.

And it worked. People got saved. We will see some of the fruit of his labor in Heaven someday.

What about today?
Who are the "pirates" of society?
How is the church reaching those that most wouldn't stoop to talk to?

Will we be like Cotton Mather and stop and make the time? Or will we pass them by?

You can listen to one of those very sermons he gave on this week's Revived Thoughts.

26/06/2024

The reformation is great but we could definitely work on teaching history on the first 1500 years of the church, too!

23/06/2024

Too often people "educate" themselves out of appreciating great men of the past.

And yet, the smartest people I have known or read from usually have a deep appreciation of history and those who came before them.

19/06/2024

You can't just argue online... you also got to go out and share the good news with others!

29/05/2024

Got the opportunity to be on YourCalvinist Podcast with Keith Foskey and discuss the French Revolution and importance of Church History!

Give it a watch from the link I'll be posting below and you can see what part of the story made Keith laugh so hard:

15/05/2024

Do you know the Taiping Rebellion?

The story of a man who forced Christianity on millions of Chinese and almost overthrew the Qing Empire?

Or was it actually Christianity? For he believed in Jesus...... and that he was Jesus brother!

For our Patreons go now and download the part 1, 2 hour special!

27/04/2024

Seems to be a new type of Spamware attack! Be on the look-out.

21/01/2024

I can't be the only one who got confused at times reading Confessions. The part where he spends like 15 chapters describing how we lose and forget our own memories despite the fact that our brain knew we once forgot it still boggles me.

21/11/2023

You can tell I teach history with quality work like this.

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Be nice to the young man at church! Sometimes they grow up to do amazing things for God. You never know what the future is for the people around you!

Christmas Evans seems like the LAST person who would impact the world. He was poor, fatherless, abandoned by his own family, and beaten for years. He couldn't read or write at the age of 17. When he became a Christian he was attacked by his own friends and lost an eye in the encounter. But he would go on to be the most famous preacher in Wales' history.

It's hard to imagine, but in the 19th century parents prayed God would give them a child to send into the mission field. A field that was much more dangerous in many places and likely meant never seeing them again. Would you pray for that for your children?

Back on the roof! Talking about Cyprian and the plague and persecution. Thanks to your help sharing these videos have reached thousands of people. Please subscribe on our Youtube and keep sharing them if you enjoy them!

Valens and Basil went back and forth for years. But when Valens saw Basil's church and the character that Basil had, he relented his attack on his church and attempts to shut it down.

Augustine's mom would not give up on her son. He had joined a cult and seemed to be as far from God as possible. Yet no matter what city he went to she showed up and started praying for him to come to Christ. And it seemed to make all the difference.

Even though he pastored 1500 people in the late 1800s, most of his congregation did not know this about him... I don't know how they didn't. It wasn't a true secret, he just didn't talk about it...

Robert S Candlish preached against the sin of carefulness hundreds of years ago. Are you guilty of this sin?

What would you do if you were sent thousands of miles off track? Would you do what Thomas Coke did?

Appreciate the church that God has given you! For many it was an honor to hear a sermon that only happened once in a while.

A snowy blizzard hit London. The pastor did not show up to church. A man stood up and shared a few words. But his words led to the conversion of one of the most important people in the 19th century.

Jonathan Swift went down in history as one of the greatest satirists that ever lived. But even though he was a Christian, his faith is often forgotten. This was partially due to the fact that he often hid his faith, out of fear of being seen as a hypocrite.

Henry Liddon was a famous pastor in the 1800s who preached a sermon titled: Five Minutes After You Die. He remembered meeting a man who said his entire life wouldn't compare to those first five minutes after he dies. Are you living with those five minutes in view?

Walter Macon Lowrie was a missionary who lived in China. Despite spending years there, he only ever preached one sermon in Chinese. Yet he opened that sermon with discussion about how he felt about being killed by pirates. A few weeks later he was killed by pirates. His sermon was spread through China and led to many people coming to Christ due to his testimony.

My students said that the church wouldn't run to plague victims and leprosy victims these days. What do you think? Would the church do it again?

DL Moody had one major moment of regret. An opportunity to share the Gospel with his congregation that he passed up on. He never got a second chance with that group. You never know how long or short your time with someone will be. Don't make Moody's mistake and have the same regret!

An important lesson from the Great Awakening that Christians need to hear today.

Have you heard of a conversion of a 100 year old man? If not, you have to hear the AMAZING conversion of Luke Short. His is truly unlike any other person's in history.

Going back in time, have you checked out our series by John Calvin on the Passion of the Christ? It's a great one if you're looking to be edified and hear the story of Christ on the Cross like you haven't before.

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Whether you are listening to our podcast through Apple, Spotify, Podcast Addict, or on our website, you can expect each episode to bring you a Godly sermon from the past. Joel and Troy take sermons from history and get them recorded so that they can be heard again. As sermons from hundreds of years ago are being preached again people are realizing that these old truths don’t die. And that they are as relevant and timely to us today as they were when they were first preached. Each episode starts off with Troy and Joel giving a 5-10 minute back-story of the preacher. This is followed by a sermon recorded by one of our dozens of volunteers from around the world. We have done sermons by famous preachers like Charles Spurgeon, Oswald Chambers, Jonathan Edwards, and John Knox. And less famous preachers like George Matheson, Andrew Gray, and Lemuel Haynes. These sermons are reviving history and edifying people in their faith today. Make sure to subscribe as there are new episodes out every Thursday!