Olaudah Equiano: The Unsung Evangelist

Olaudah Equiano is a name of lasting significance in secular historical discussions, English literary circles, and among students of evangelical church history. Yet, his legacy is not nearly as widely known to the Church at large, certainly not to the degree of figures such as Jonathan Edwards or John Newton. This is truly lamentable. Stolen as a boy from the Kingdom of Benin, Equiano was taken to the slave markets in Barbados, and eventually bought by a ship’s captain in Virginia. After amazing and terrifying travels throughout the Atlantic world, he ultimately landed in England where he became a leading...

Christian Clement-Schlimm

Stones of Remembrance: Ontario’s First African Methodist Chapels

Christian Clement-Schlimm

Who Is Athanasius of Alexandria?

Matthew Hoskin

Episode 39: Worship in the Early Church (feat. Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin)

Michael A. G. Haykin • Johnny Markin • Rob Brockman

Episode 41: Augustine’s Confessions – Rest for Our Restless Hearts (Book I)

Wyatt Graham • Ian Clary

Three Reasons to Read the Letters of John Newton

Sean Sheeran

Over the course of 2021, I slowly worked my way through Letters of John Newton. Some of us may know that name, and if not the name, most of us will know the lyrics he penned in the song Amazing Grace. As the near year begins, I would like to encourage you to read the Letters of John Newton. Here are three reasons I would commend the letters of this brother of old to you. You Will Find Hope for Sufferers As a human being liven in a fallen world, and as a pastor, John Newton was no stranger to...

Three Reasons to Read the Letters of John Newton

Sean Sheeran

Another Decade of God’s Faithfulness at Church of the Messiah

George Sinclair

This Sunday marks the tenth anniversary of us not owning a church building. The ten years have not unfolded as many of us thought they would, but the Lord has been faithful. On February 16, 2008, the congregation voted overwhelmingly to disconnect from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Diocese of Ottawa, They also connected with another official Anglican body, The Anglican Province of the Southern Cone (mainly found in the southern part of South America). When we voted as we did, we knew that the Diocese of Ottawa would come after us and that our vote would probably mean...

Another Decade of God’s Faithfulness at Church of the Messiah

George Sinclair

Hermenegild: The Story of an Unfamiliar Martyr

Benjamin Wheaton

In 579 Hermenegild son of King Leuvigild of Spain rebelled against his father and set up his own kingdom in the south, centred on the city of Seville. Hermenegild had just converted from Arianism to Nicene Christianity; his father however remained Arian. Leuvigild was displeased by his son’s conversion, for political reasons as much as for religious ones: his Arianism made him in a religious sense the enemy of the neighbouring Nicene kingdoms (Francia, Galicia and the Eastern Empire). This difference of creed did not usually prevent him from making agreements and alliances with these Nicene neighbours, but it did...

Hermenegild: The Story of an Unfamiliar Martyr

Benjamin Wheaton

3 Ways Athanasius Can Help Us Read Our Bibles

Wyatt Graham

Athanasius of Alexandria (d. AD 373) stood firm in the Scriptures by affirming the divinity of the Father and Son. Others followed the theological trajectory set out by the priest Arius (AD 256–336), who said the Father created the Son. For the Arians, the Son was created before all beings. And with him as a sort of instrument, the Father created the universe. That would not do. Athanasius remained steadfast in his conviction that the Son was truly divine. He was not simply the greatest of created beings; he was the proper Word of the Father. He was consubstantial with...