William Tyndale was born in late 15th-century England, about 90 years after the church had banned the only complete English Bible in the world, the translation made by John Wycliffe. Wycliffe maintained that being ignorant of the Scripture is the same as being ignorant of Christ. But his translation from the Latin Vulgate […]
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By Stephen Nichols at: http://5minutesinchurchhistory.com/ Under the city of Rome lies a vast system of catacombs. The ancient Romans built these catacombs because they feared death and didn’t want to think about it. They wanted to push death out onto the margins, out of sight, deep beneath the city. These catacombs
By Philip Yancey, posted March 25, 2019 at: http://www.philipyancey.com I once attended a retreat with a prominent Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar. She introduced herself by saying, “I am quadruply marginalized. I am a feminist woman in a male-dominated society. I am a Christian from a predominantly Muslim society. I am a Palestinian,
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By Eric Metaxas and Stan Guthrie, July 26, 2018, at: http://www.breakpoint.org —————— In late 18th and early 19th century, slavery was considered a “necessary evil.” As Historian Christopher D. Hancock wrote, the slave trade “involved thousands of slaves, hundreds of ships, and millions of pounds [sterling]; upon it depended the economies of Britain
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By Philip Kosloski at: www.catholicgentleman.net Modern historian and commentator Kenneth Clark said in his popular BBC show Civilization, “Western Christianity survived by clinging to places like Skellig Michael, a pinnacle of rock seven miles from the Irish coast, rising seven hundred feet out of the sea.” It’s an intriguing claim, crediting the solitary monastery on Skellig
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Above: Philipp Melancthon (1497-1560) ——————– From “Picking Up The Pieces,” in 100 Bible Verses That Changed the World, by William and Randy Peterson, pages 45-46, 2001. Superheroes have sidekicks. Sheriffs have deputies. Reformers have … people like Philipp Melanchthon. At the turn of the twentieth century, Martin Luther made everybody’s list of the most important
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Above photo: Louie Zamperini speaking at a 1958 Billy Graham Crusade in San Francisco ***************************** (…continued) Louie did eventually go back to Japan, but not to kill ‘the Bird.’ He took very seriously the words of Jesus about forgiveness, and in his heart he forgave all of his guards and
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(…continued) Louie joined the Air Force and was put on the crew of a B-24 bomber in the Pacific. In a couple very dangerous, and very successful missions, he became a decorated war hero. Then his plane went down in the ocean. Of nine crew members, only Louie and two others survived. Rescue
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March 11, 2018 sermon. —————– I had been thinking about taking some time to say something about Billy Graham who died last month at the age of 99. Billy Graham’s seven decades of ministry were all about calling sinners to repentance and conversion to faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, who
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“The Priest That Did Not Back Down from the Nazis or the Communists” By Zoltan Kesz, posted March 6, 2018, at: www.intellectualtakeout.org Kornel Hummel (1907-1945; pictured above) lived during one of the most crucial times in the history of the 20th Century, the 1940s. The last year of World War II witnessed the most
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