1. The year is 1915, and we remember Ellen G. White. The reading is a quote from Luther’s Sermons on the Gospel of St. John.
  2. We remember the year 1606 and Rembrandt von Rijn. The reading is a quote from Herman Bavinck's "The Philosophy of Revelation."
  3. The year was 1791, and we remember the Priestly Riots. The reading is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "My Baptismal Birthday."
  4. The year is 1230, and we remember Jacopo de Voragine. The reading is an excerpt from St. Augustine's, "Confessions."
  5. The year is 1477, and we remember humanist, scholar, and Catholic controversialist Jacopo Sadoleto. The reading is Gerard Manley Hopkin's "O Deo, Ego Amp Te."
  6. The year is 1926, and we consider theologian and author Frederick Buechner. The reading is from Buechner, "The Faces of Jesus.”
  7. For the Galatians, adding circumcision to their faith in Jesus was their confidence. But adding anything to Jesus gets you nothing.
  8. The year is 1875, and we remember Mary Mcleod Bethune. The reading is Isaac Watts, “Behold What Wondrous Grace.”
  9. Throughout the centuries and throughout earthquakes, famines, kingdoms falling and rising, God's Word has moved forward. Picking up pieces, people, lives, sins, and hopelessness only to turn them into diamonds through His Grace!
  10. We consider the year 1766, and preacher Jonathan Mayhew. The reading is from Thomas C. Oden's, "Classic Christianity."
  11. We consider the year 1115 and Peter the Hermit. The reading is the last verse of the poem “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” by Bernard of Clairvaux.
  12. We consider the year 1647 and the death of the “father of Connecticut,” Thomas Hooker. The reading is from "Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer" by Phillips Brooks.