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Category: John Knox

  • “Give me Scotland, or I die”: John Knox as a Man of Prayer

    John Knox was born in Scotland about 1514. So he was only about three years old when the Protestant reformation started in Germany in 1517. Converted to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism in 1543, Knox lived during the time when it was often very dangerous to be a follower of Christ. When the Roman Catholic Mary…

  • John Knox: A Theologian of Prayer

    I fear the prayer of John Knox more than the combined armies of Europe. — Mary, Queen of Scots John Knox, born about 1514 in or near Haddington, Scotland,[1] is pictured in various ways. W. Stanford Reid portrays him as the “trumpeter of God, an epithet that Knox used to describe himself.[2] David D. Murison…