Morning Moments

Here is a MUST BUY! One Year Book of Christian History by E. Michael and Sharon Rusten. It is published by Tyndale and is a daily glimpse into God's powerful work.

In the first place, it will thrill you to see what God has done throughout the history of the Christian church. It will encourage and challenge but BE CAREFUL, for it may make you ashamed of yourself for sacrificing so little and having so much.

I have used this book for a couple of years and would give away thousands if I could.

Let me give you are good example -

"Michael Sattler was a Catholic priest in southern Germany in the 1520s, and Margaretha had a lay position in the Catholic Church. Boldly breaking their vows of celibacy to marry, they were of one mind regarding their faith in God and their love for each other.

As if this weren't scandal enough, their convictions led them to join the Anabaptists, a fledgling religious movement the ecclesiastical and magisterial powers deemed dangerous...."

Long story shorter - Michael was arrested, brought to court and sentenced to die if he did not recant.

"'Michael Sattler shall be committed to the hangman, who shall take him to the square and there first cut out his tongue, then chain him to a wagon, tear his body twice with hot tongs there and five times more before the gate, then burn his body to powder as an arch-heretic.'"

"As the executioner tied Michael to a ladder, Michael prayer with slurred speech, 'Almighty, eternal God, Thou art the way and the truth; because I have not been shown to be in error, I will with Thy help on this day testify to the truth and seal it with my blood'. After the fire burned the ropes off his hands, he raised his hands and struggled to form the words: 'Father, I commend my spirit into Thy hands.'

Eight days later Margaretha was drowned in the Neckar River that passes through Rottenburg."

May God have mercy on our shallow Christian faith!