Showing posts with label early church history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early church history. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

The church has always been out of step with the culture

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The earliest church was seen as too exclusive and a threat to the social order because it would not honor all deities ; today Christians are...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

All Saints and Reformation Sundays

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We had such a fabulous music selection on Reformation Sunday—choir, organ, brass.  I don’t know how these things are planned, if there is a ...
Monday, April 24, 2017

The Didache--an ancient message for today

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_w7OApgi1I The Didache is a record of the early days of the Christian church in the first century A.D.  S...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

A little history about the Pope's visit to Armenia

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"In 301 AD, twelve years before Constantine legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire, King Tiridates III made Christianity the offi...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Why Christianity was revolutionary from the beginning

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 The first century vision is breathtaking, given our divisions today.   "After his death and resurrection a fellowship of...
Saturday, April 09, 2016

This is how apostolic authority and succession worked in the first century church

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Acts 6:1-7   As the number of disciples continued to grow, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were bei...
Monday, December 21, 2015

The earliest Christian creed

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There was no Bible to direct Paul on his missionary journeys or to guide his letters to the converts.  He had to tell them what he had been ...