Tag: The Early Church
“Come on, Erastus. We’re going to be late. The celebration has started!”
Fear gripped Erastus’s heart. He knew he had to do it, but his feet felt cemented into the marble floor, as the warm Mediterranean breeze swept through his front door.
“Hang on, Gaius. Let me just grab my cloak.”
“And...
I’ve never been a member of a house church, but a big part of me would like to be. I love the idea of a stripped down, no bells and whistles, authentic gathering of believers making disciples and living on mission together. And I’m sympathetic with the house church...
Luke the Physician wrote a two-volume work. Volume I is the Gospel of Luke, Volume II is the book of Acts. Taken together, these books give us a careful and compelling account of what happened in the Roman Empire during the first century AD.
In this post, I want to...
As we wrestle with the issue of Christians and violence, it’s interesting to note that prior to Constantine (4th Cent. A.D.), Christians were basically pacifists. Few Christians ever joined the military and rarely would a believer pursue a vocation where killing someone else would expected. (There’s no evidence of...