1537

Publication of  "Thomas Matthew's" Bible. This Bible, printed in Antwerp less than a year after the martyrdom of Tyndale, was the first English Bible to be officially licensed for legal…

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Community Is Not Optional

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is; but exhorting one…

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And I Quote—June 20

The message of biblical Christianity is not “God loves me, period,” as if we were the object of our own faith. The message of biblical Christianity is “God loves me…

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The Biggest Story | Part One

Our next book of the month will be, The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden. Far more than a children's story, this beautiful book is a…

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Friday Findings—June 17

What Is Self-Discipline? “If we are to exercise self-control, we must relinquish the control of our lives to Jesus Christ. Here is a paradox of the Christian life: We must…

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Peter Riedemann… Yet Speaking

As so much has been said about love so far, we must show what it is like in order that it is better understood, that one may not think he…

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1536

Still only 27 years old, John Calvin publishes the first edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion. This first edition was quite compact. Over the next 23 years Calvin…

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Bug Bites

I once arrived home from a camping trip covered with mosquito bites. I had tried to protect myself from getting bitten, for I react pretty severely to bug bites. My…

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And I Quote… June 13

Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend…

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