Church History

Amid Plague, their “Deeds Were on Everyone’s Lips”: How Christianity Conquered Rome

BibleMesh, Church History / March 20, 2020 March 20, 2020

Famine and war had recently afflicted Caesarea, so when the plague hit in the early fourth century, the populace was already weakened and unable to withstand this additional blow. The populace began fleeing the city, one of the larger ones of the Roman Empire, for safety in the countryside.[1] However, in the midst of the fleeing inhabitants, …

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How to Spot New Ideas in Theology—And Why it Matters

BibleMesh, By Garry Williams, Church History, Theology / March 2, 2020 April 3, 2020

We should be alert to both the importance of fresh theological work and its danger. There is no doubt that new insights through history have taken the church into a deeper understanding of the Scriptures, often in the context of defending the truth against error. And yet much novelty has itself been error, and even …

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Missionary to the Cannibals—James Chalmers (1841 – 1901)

Church History, Theology / January 28, 2020 January 28, 2020

Little did James Chalmers and his missionary colleague Oliver Tomkins know, as they waded ashore at Risk Point on Goaribari Island, New Guinea, that they were walking toward their deaths. It was Easter Sunday, April 8, 1901, and the villagers rejoiced at their arrival, inviting them into the newly constructed dubu (a communal house for …

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How Did the Reformers View Islam?

Church History / March 6, 2019 August 7, 2019

During the Reformation, the advance of the Muslim religion was very much “in the news.” The advancing Turkish Ottoman Empire, which reached its height in the early to mid-sixteenth century, posed an unnerving political and military threat to European Christendom. Even though the armies of Europe turned back the Turks at the gates of Vienna …

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Philippines: BibleMesh Spurs Reformation 500th Celebration

Church History / November 13, 2017 November 13, 2017

A satellite campus of a Filipino megachurch says BibleMesh was a key part of the impetus for its celebration of the Protestant Reformation’s 500th anniversary. In January, the Manila-area Eastwood satellite of Christ’s Commission Fellowship (CCF) – a Philippines-based nondenominational church with 30,000 attendees at its main campus and 60 satellites worldwide – began taking …

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