Church History

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Christians can have strong feelings about Christmas, and I do not think either side should be mocked. Some believers gladly use the day to…

I have heard people call the Septuagint the Bible of the apostles. I have also heard it dismissed as a corrupt rival to the…

Should a Christian celebrate Christmas, or do its later traditions make the whole day pagan? I have heard confident claims on both sides, but…

Christians can easily talk past each other when the Sabbath comes up because we may not be asking the same question. Are we talking…

We hear the word Christian so often that it can feel as though it has always been there, but where did the name come…

With so many English Bibles available, which translation can we trust for daily reading, serious study, and teaching? To answer that, we need to…

Aquila never gets a long speech or a chapter centered on him. We meet him in short notices beside his wife Priscilla, yet those…

Priscilla never appears alone in the New Testament, yet the six references that name her with Aquila tell us a great deal. What did…

Acts picks up where Luke’s Gospel ends, but it is more than a list of what happened next. It shows the risen Jesus continuing…

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