This post comes from Calvary Chapel Pastors Pick up just about any good book about the history of Christianity, and go to the section on persecution in the first few centuries of the Christian movement. Scan the paragraphs until you come to the part where they describe the reasons why Christians were persecuted, or at...
Month: July 2012
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The Way to Purity
This post comes from My Utmost For His Highest Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart . . . . For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man . . . —Matthew 15:18-20 Initially we...
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Phylogenic Charts
This post comes from Calvary Chapel Pastors “A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or “tree” showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities based upon similarities and differences in their physical and/or genetic characteristics. The taxa joined together in the tree are implied to have descended from a common ancestor.” That’s a...
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My Visit to the Billy Graham Center
This post comes from Calvary Chapel Pastors This past weekend while in Wheaton, Illinois, performing a wedding for a friend of ours, Cheryl and I had the opportunity to visit Wheaton College and the Billy Graham Center. Walking through the museum, which gives a historical overview of evangelism in America from colonial times up to...