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American Christianity, Calendar Articles, Default Category, The Bible

Listen Robert Charles Winthrop was an American lawyer, politician, and philanthropist who at one point in his political career rose to the office of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Like most who lived during the Founding Era of the United States, Winthrop was concerned about the moral character of America’s development. Welcome, and thank you for choosing...Read more... Read more...

Calendar Articles, The Bible

Listen * Contribution of the Jews to Christianity * by Dr. Stephen Flick Abraham’s journey began when his father, Terah (Genesis 11:31), took Abraham, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarah (Sarai), the wife of his son Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees, which is today southern Iraq. From there, Abraham proceeded to Palestine, located at the crossroads between...Read more... Read more...

Calendar Articles, Christian Living, The Bible

Listen In the early Christian Church, believers were forced to decide what books of Scripture they would be willing to die. If a book was not regarded as authoritative, conscience did not forbid them to surrender it to pagan authorities, but if a work was regarded as inspired and evidenced Divine authority, Christians were far less likely to part with it. Yet this was only one of the...Read more... Read more...

Calendar Articles, Christian Living, The Bible

Listen On August 10, 70 A.D. (the 9th of the Jewish month of Av), according to Jewish chronology, the very day when the King of Babylon burned Solomon’s Temple in 586 B.C., the newly renovated Temple of Herod was burned by the Roman general, Titus, following a Jewish revolt that began a few years earlier, in 66. After months of siege about the city, Titus took the city on this...Read more... Read more...

Annual Schedule, Calendar Articles, Christian Calendar, Christian Living, November, Social Theology, The Bible

Listen * National Bible Week * by Dr. Stephen Flick The reading of the Bible was abruptly interrupted over the NBC radio network in 1941 when world-changing events began to transpire. Seldom in the history of America was Scripture needed to comfort and bring hope as it was needed that day. Yet, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the significance of the beginning of National...Read more... Read more...

Calendar Articles, Default Category, Lives of the Apostles, November Articles, The Bible

Listen * St. Andrew * by Dr. Stephen Flick The Apostle Andrew, the brother of St. Peter, carried the Gospel to many Asiatic nations, beginning Observance: On or before November 30 his missionary endeavors in the Provinces of Vithynia and Pontus on the southern shores of the Black Sea. It is believed that he subsequently traveled to the City of Byzantium where he established a church....Read more... Read more...