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After Matthew 5:10-16 All kinds of ways, all kinds of reasons to persecute a person, a believer, but only one that matters: when it’s pers...

After Romans 12:14   Revenge and retribution are out. When persecution comes (and it’s inevitable), pray for your persecutors, and bless the...

After Acts 8:1-7 He hears the speech, a sermon really, directed against the rulers, among which he considers himself, or at l...

I was reading Peter Ackroyd’s Tudors , which by necessity has a heavy emphasis upon the religious turmoil in 16 th century England. I ...

After Acts 8: 1-3 And on that day, that day of Stephen, that day of Stephen and the stones that moment of begging to forg...

My masters program at Washington University in St. Louis involved a series of seminars that focused heavily in the history and religion...

The prophet Daniel had two visions that terrified him. One was of four beasts (Daniel 7). The other was of a ram and a goat (Daniel 8)....

After 1 Peter 1:3-9   A river flows from the cracked stone water washing over cleaning over and through, the pouring unex...

The Apostle Peter’s first letter was written to believers in what is now Asia Minor, or Turkey. We don’t precisely know what they were ...

We sit huddled the city’s caves offering a respite a single candle burns dim light our faces and thoughts shadowed crie...

Before us is an open door, a door we cannot close, not individually, not collectively, an open door that remains open because...

I went to Smyrna, my usual sales trip, bringing with me what I had to sell. I arrived amid the cries, torches in the night, sol...

It wasn’t a knock but a pounding, shaking the door. He sat, the pages open before him, hearing the vibration from the door, a...

Early on in my faith, I spent a fairly considerable amount of time reading church history . I was even able to take a seminar in early chu...