Christian History (1021)
  1. On this Day Handel Begins Composing Messiah, and 5 Things We Can Learn From It
  2. A person, not a nation, can be a Christian because only a person can be saved by grace through faith in the work of Christ.
  3. Stories like Onoda’s offer an interesting parallel to our life in the Gospel.
  4. These new texts and manuscripts, while not altering the message of the text, can give us better insight into particular historical and grammatical issues.
  5. The story of these faithful Christians serves to highlight the roles of both Africa and martyrdom in the early church and today.
  6. We can’t all afford to travel the world, but the more we read from outside our own context, the bigger we see the world.
  7. When the church has gone astray, it has been the responsible (not slavish) approach to history that has helped correct the course.
  8. Perhaps best known for his “wager,” Pascal is often associated with this curious argument for the existence of God and eternal blessedness.
  9. Throughout the centuries, “Inferno” has also played a large role in the development of Christianity, particularly in the Western Medieval church.
  10. When orthodoxy becomes a Law, heterodoxy can feel like the Gospel.
  11. He is significant, not as a founder of his own movement, but for setting the procrustean bed of the particularly American church with its dogmatizing yet broad ecumenical stances.
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