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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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How Christianity Conquered Rome

Church History, History, The Bible + Culture / April 20, 2017 November 16, 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.[i] However, in the midst of the …

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Confessing Courage – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

BibleMesh, Church History, Ethics, History, Politics / December 27, 2011 December 27, 2011

The name, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), has become a byword for conviction and courage. In 1935, ten years before the Nazis hanged him in Flossenburg, Bonhoeffer presided over a seminary consisting of twenty-five young pastors. They were all part of the Confessing Church, believers who refused to drape Hitler’s policies with the Christian flag. Therefore, the …

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Care for the Poor in the Weekly Worship of the Early Christians—Justin Martyr (c. 114 – c. 165)

BibleMesh, Church History, Philosophy, Worldview / November 23, 2011 November 23, 2011

Justin Martyr was a pagan philosopher who converted to Christianity. Once a prominent thinker who taught in many of the great urban centers of the Roman Empire, he was eventually executed because of his faith. In his “First Apology,” Justin defends Christian truth and practice in a letter to the Emperor Antoninus Pius. In this …

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A Witch Judge Repents—Samuel Sewall, 1697

BibleMesh, Church History, Ethics / June 22, 2011 June 22, 2011

Pastor Samuel Willard strode up the center aisle of Boston’s Third Church as the congregation sang a psalm. It was an official day of fasting and prayer for Bostonians. But for Samuel Sewall, it would also be a day of personal repentance. As Willard passed, he paused just long enough to receive a note from …

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Of Gods and Men

By Mark Coppenger, Church History, Culture, Current Events, History, World Religions / April 27, 2011 November 16, 2020

Though my own Baptist faith is not given to masses and monasteries, I loved Of Gods and Men, the story of French monks who ministered and died in the Algerian mountains. I think particularly of the scene where the old exhausted doctor, facing almost certain death at the hand of Islamic terrorists, pauses to press …

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Philippines: BibleMesh Spurs Reformation 500th Celebration

How Christianity Conquered Rome

Confessing Courage – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

Care for the Poor in the Weekly Worship of the Early Christians—Justin Martyr (c. 114 – c. 165)

A Witch Judge Repents—Samuel Sewall, 1697

Of Gods and Men

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