The Life of Patrick of Ireland: An Inspiration for Mission
“I came to the people of Ireland to preach the Gospel, and to suffer insult from the unbelievers, bearing the reproach of my going abroad and many persecutions even unto bonds.”
Confess the Creed: Review of a Pattern of Sounds Words
1700 years ago, a council of bishops met in the city of Nicaea, summoned by Emperor Constantine to discuss and settle numerous issues. The most important issue on the table was the doctrine of God. Arius (250-336), an influential leader in Alexandria, taught that Jesus, the Son, was created and not equal to the Father. Arius popularised the tune about Jesus, “There once was a time when he was not.” At the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, Arius’s teaching was weighed next to Scripture, and he was condemned as a heretic. His theology was outside the bounds of Christian...
A Christmastide meditation on Christina Rossetti’s “In the bleak mid-winter”
Christina Rossetti, the finest poetess of the Victorian era, was born into a remarkably gifted family in London, on December 5, 1830. Her parents, Gabriele and Frances Rossetti, were emigrés from Italy. When they came to England, they began attending All Souls, Langham Place, where Christina was baptized shortly after her birth. Though the family was gifted artistically, they had little money and seem to have struggled financially, despite the fact that her father was a Professor of Italian at King’s College, London. It was from her mother that she imbibed her evangelical faith. In 1848 Christina became engaged to...
Episcopal Baptists?
History is full of surprises. Sometimes, history is downright stranger than fiction. Church history, including Baptist history, is no exception to this principle. When the Baptist movement, as we know it today, emerged in the seventeenth century, early Baptists had to settle their views on several important issues. For those with a cursory knowledge of Baptist life and history, you can probably guess some of the significant questions: Calvinism vs. Arminianism and Open vs. Closed Communion, for example. Yet, some early Baptist disagreements may be a shock. In my experience, many present-day Baptists are baffled when they learn that the...
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...
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