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The Historic Practice of Abortion and How Ancient Christians Responded

It’s no secret that the majority of Christians are against abortion, no matter where you look in the world. But nowhere has the issue come to more of a head than in the US recently with the overturning of Roe v Wade, which had made abortion legal across the country. Now abortion is no longer a federal constitutional right, but individual states now have the authority to determine the legality and rulings around abortion. Christian opposition to abortion in America has always been a heated topic, especially in recent decades, but this isn’t a novelty within the Church in America, or globally, and has been a position of the faithful for about 2000 years. Even...

The Eighth Day

....com/text/didache-roberts.html https://thesacredfaith.co.uk/index.php?page=home&perma=1459070845&article=raised-in-the-heavenlies https://thesacredfaith.co.uk/index.php?page=home&perma=1452090721&article=who-is-the-new-jerusalem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day http://www.jcblog.net/hebrews/4/9-10/true-sabbath-rest-through-christ Sabbath was for Isreal: http://members.shaw.ca/homechristian/docs/articles/SabbathObservance.htm http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Fall_Holidays/Sukkot/sukkot.html https://jewsforjesus.org/publications/newsletter/october-1998/tabernacles https://gotquestions.org/Constantine-Sabbath.html...

Lent: Intro - 40 Day Reading Plan with the Fathers

...This year for Lent I'm following a reading plan which comprises of a collection of extracts from various early church fathers writings. Each day I'm going to write a short overview and any thoughts on the text and link back to the source material so you can also follow along with me too, if you'd like. The overview of each day will probably be posted on the day after. The reading should only take 10-15 minutes of your time, and by day 40, you will have read ten different Fathers: didache, Diognetus, Polycarp, Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Cyprian, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose of Milan, and Leo the Great. I'll be reading from the “Church Fathers Lenten...

Fasting: A spiritual and physical discipline

...://www.thedidache.com http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/07157.htm https://www.buzzsprout.com/3196/52849-fasting-for-divine-intervention-fasting-edition-45 http://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050354.htm https://bible.org/seriespage/chapter-3-fasting-through-patristic-era  Lent Reading/Devotional Plan: My Book series: 40 Days with the Fathers  http://www.churchyear.net/lentfathers.html http://www.churchyear.net/lentfatherslite.html Full texts: http://www.churchyear.net/lentfatherscomplete.pdf    ...

Spiritual Disciplines of the Early Church: Ancient Practices for the 21st Century

...I was asked not so long ago what kinds of things Christians did in the Early Church (first to fourth century) as a form of spiritual discipline, on a personal level as well as a corporate one. Though the concept of an individual “personal spiritual life” would have been quite foreign to first century believers as faith and Church was very much a corporate venture that had personal implications, rather than the other way around as it can often appear to be thought of today. Much of what made Christianity structured, disciplined and set apart from society, has largely been lost in practice, or forgotten and relegated to the annals of history by many practicin...

Did the Early Church invent the Trinity?

...The doctrine and concept of the Trinity is encapsulated in Matthew 28:19, where Jesus instructs the apostles: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”. John, who was very close to Jesus and obviously knew him well, alludes to this teaching frequently in his Gospel, too. For example: John 1:1; John 8:58; John 10:30; and John 10:38. Yet, despite this, and numerous other examples throughout the New Testament which point towards the threefold nature of God, plenty of myths and legends abound online and in books which state that the divinity of Jesus (and therefore the Trinit...