{"id":119930,"date":"2025-04-17T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=119930"},"modified":"2025-04-17T23:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T04:23:51","slug":"a-light-on-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=119930","title":{"rendered":"A Light on the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"057685f5-3c54-4dff-bf49-7a157e25c308\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">I love a good biography. It\u2019s always fascinating and often inspiring to read the account of a life of special significance. Yet for all the biographies I\u2019ve read, <em><a target=\"_blank\" id=\"https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F3Eftszo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/a-light-on-the-hill\/#https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F3Eftszo\">A Light on the Hill<\/a><\/em> may be the first whose subject was not a person but a church. It surprised me what a blessing it was to read about that church and to see how God has seen fit to bless, preserve, and use it for so many years.<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"2b6d311d-25b8-431c-a8d3-7e5dc1a83179\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"333f9662-6596-4a36-bf64-c461f981ebfe\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> A Light on the Hill <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"86dac427-1594-41fc-bd61-20fe10567060\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"7f3e730e-1eb7-4cc8-8964-0f4b936b58bc\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Caleb Morell<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"e902620c-c4b1-4876-9097-cbb6304fd7e8\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"ad1b7ff4-9816-430b-833d-f6c7a420d31b\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"96fdd68d-ba2c-466d-89e0-75d2116e5953\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a id=\"https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F3Eftszo\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/a-light-on-the-hill\/#https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F3Eftszo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a> <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"134d371e-68a8-4cae-9425-9f5fb4d6df74\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/collections\/current-specials\/products\/light-on-the-hill-the-surprising-story-of-how-a-local-church-in-the-nations-capital-influenced-evangelicalism-9781433592898?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from WTS Books<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"9aa7f58a-0f27-4680-9dbe-cdec62cfc6c9\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In late 1867, Celestia Anne Ferris, a young member of E Street Baptist Church in Washington, called her friends together to pray for the establishment of a church on Capitol Hill. Only a few people were present that evening and their specific prayers were not recorded,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2020, CHBC, along with almost every other church in the world, was forced to contend with the opening days of the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time Caleb Morell was working as Pastor Mark Dever\u2019s personal assistant. Dever tasked him with finding out how the church had responded to the Spanish flu epidemic a century prior. See AlsoA La Carte (October 25)Free Stuff Fridays (MBTS)Book Review \u2013 Flight Path<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":119945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-119930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/harold-mendoza-6xafY_AE1LM-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119946,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119930\/revisions\/119946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}