Author: Shalem John

The Trump administration wants colleges to sign on to its new compact on higher education, but Christian colleges say it amounts to “undue government control.” The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), which in the US represents 150 largely evangelical institutions, signed on to a statement from the American Council on Education that said the compact was “government control of a university’s basic and necessary freedoms.” At the beginning of October, the Trump administration sent a ten-point memo that outlines changes colleges should make, including freezing tuition for five years, refunding students who drop out their first semester, capping…

Birth: 05.10.1703 Death: 22.03.1758 Native Place: Connecticut, America Place of Vision: America Jonathan Edwards was one of the most notable theologians and a revivalist preacher from America. Born into a lineage of pastors and ministers, Edwards led a Godly life since his childhood. When his contemporaries found the study of natural science to push them towards Deism, Edward saw nature to be more and more evidence of God’s masterful creation. During his college, he often went into the woods to pray and worship God. Despite leading a religious life, Jonathan saw his soul emptiness and eventually realized that none of…

Birth: 23-03-1856 Death: 11-06-1948 Native Place: West Virginia Country: United States Place of Vision: India “My thoughts are not your thoughts… For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” (Isaiah 55:8, Jeremiah 29:11). We can see these words being demonstrated in the life of Ada Lee. She raised her children in Godly fear and consecrated them to serve God and whose prayers had always been to see her children drawing the multitudes towards God. Were her prayers answered? Twenty years old, Ada…