4 Kinds of Churches
A church can be completely orthodox in its doctrine and still be missing something essential.
What Can We Learn from the Life of Patrick of Ireland?
Imagine this: you are kidnapped by raiders from your life of plenty and safety, then taken to a country across the sea and doomed to life-enforced servitude. Then, you have a dream that you must escape. You miraculously make it back home, but remain restless—”Why was I so fortunate to get away?” You might wonder if you were made for a greater purpose. “How shall I live my life in light of such rescue?” Acknowledging the grace of almighty God who brought him through trial to this place, he commits to serving him and to go across another sea to...
Phillis Wheatley: The Senegambian Slave-Turned-Poet
Phillis Wheatley was captured and shipped across the Middle Passage across the Atlantic Ocean at age 7. The Senegambian young girl was purchased at a Boston auction in 1761 by John Wheatley for his wife Susanna. Her birth name is unknown to us, as the little girl was given the name of the slave vessel that tore her away from everything she’d ever known. A Genius in Bondage Phillis soon demonstrated such a capacity for languages that she could read fluent English by age 9. What’s more, she read and translated Greek and Latin classics by age 10. As a...
Who is Irenaeus of Lyons?
In the 180s AD, Irenaeus of Lyons established himself as the greatest theologian since the time of the apostles when he wrote A Refutation and Subversion of What is Falsely Called Knowledge—more commonly known as Against Heresies [AH] (the shortened title given the work by the church historian Eusebius)—and Presentation of the Apostolic Preaching. These took strikingly different approaches: AH offered a painstaking analysis and criticism of various heretical perspectives, while Apostolic Preaching presented an extended summary of what Christians believe and teach. Both works presented the Christian faith winsomely, as the message proclaimed by Jesus Christ and his apostles...
Blandina: A Sister in Christ and a Spiritual Mother
It may sound odd that a young slave girl who died in AD 177 is a hero of mine. It might be stranger to say that I named my second child after Blandina—or at least after the crown that she gained by martyrdom. But she is, and I did. So just who is Blandina? She was a young slave girl who died as a martyr in Lyons, France in AD 177. She had no Roman Citizenship, no rights as a slave, was young, and was described as having a weak body. Yet by her faith, her encouragement of the saints,...
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