In a public letter to the gentile churches Paul had founded in the region of Galatia (in present-day Turkey), Paul makes a spirited case that gentiles who have faith in Christ need not observe mitzvot that apply to Jews alone. He declares that true believers rely solely on God’s covena...
Paul was addressing a real assembly, an actual gathering of people. These were the ekklesia of the Thessalonians in God and Christ. Support for this understanding of church comes also from Paul’s letter to Galatians. He addresses this letter to: “The churches [ekklesiais] of Galatia” (1...
The present study seeks to gather evidence to help churches decide whether they need to reassess the value of older people in church life and whether their spiritual needs are being met. A qualitative survey comprising 11 open-ended questions was distributed to a sample of older churchgoers ...
PART II. WHAT CHARITY AND THE CHURCHES DID WITH HIM. I.--The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word. The early days of his residence at the Home of the Sisters of Misery, in Winkle Street, was the Eden of Ginx's Baby's existence. Themselves innocent of...
“[The apostles] founded churches in every city, from which all the other churches, one after another, derived the tradition of the faith, and the seeds of doctrine, and are every day deriving them, that they may become churches. Indeed, it is on this account only that they will be abl...
when St. Paul talks about how the church is a pillar in bulwark of the truth and that it gives us a model for how we should act, how do we do that if we can’t even find it because only God can find it. When St. Paul goes to persecute the church and Jesus says, Saul, Saul...
Churches also trusted the providence of God. He was at work in the perfect preservation of scripture. Changes from “the Enlightenment” New changes of the text of the Bible did not again arise until what historians call “the Enlightenment.” The late 18th and 19th centuries, almost two ...
maintain fellowship with God, he tells us that confession of sin and walking in the light, and obedience toward God is necessary (1 John). And when he wants to tell us about wayward Christians and churches turning back to God to avoid temporal judgment, he talks about repentance (Revelation...
The way most churches interpret John 3:16, they mentally replace the very clear word "perish" with something that means nearly the opposite-"never perish." There is a clear word for "torment" in the Greek-so why did John not use it? Because he was not teaching it at all. In John ...
ChurchesCityLost LondonMedievalWhat's in a name?City of LondonSt Swithin London StoneSt Swithin's Lane What’s in a name?…London Wall… March 8, 2021 The name of this street is self-explanatory – it follows the line of part of the wall that once surrounded the City of London, of...