church history ← Julian Freeman

A Confession That Connects

May

2013

A Good Pattern to Follow When we planted Grace Fellowship Church Don Mills there was very little that we wanted to do differently from what we had seen. You might have been able to tell from the name that we chose (we were planted by another Grace Fellowship Church), but we firmly believed — and ...

Did John Bunyan Question His Salvation?

Feb

2010

You bet he did! Like most Christians throughout the history of the church, this famous believer was prone to discouragement. When he saw the sway that sin still held in his life he would begin to question whether or not God was really working in him–whether God would indeed keep him. So what did he ...

Free Audio Resources from ChristianAudio.com

May

2009

Every month ChristianAudio.com gives away a coupon code to download one of their audiobooks for free. Oftentimes these books are quite good! One I got Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine. Another time they were offering Don Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life. On another month they offered Pilgrim’s Progress. All in all, it’s an offer worth ...

How to React to the Fall of Rome – Part 2

Jul

2007

In the previous post we saw that the ancient church’s view of a historical phenomenon (namely, the Roman Empire) shifted dramatically within the space of a few generations, on account of their particular experiences with that empire. I would suggest that we have seen something somewhat similar take place over the past few generations up ...

How to React to the Fall of Rome – Part 1

Jul

2007

Looking over my notes today from my early church history course, I noticed something interesting. It’s nothing new or profound, but it caught my attention anyway. The church’s response to the fall of Rome was weird, in many ways. I think it’s necessary to lay some background before we move on. From the founding of ...

I Love Christians!

Feb

2007

I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately for several of my courses about textual criticism of the New Testament Greek texts. It’s been really interesting, to say the least, and I’ve been learning lots. One of the greatest things I learned was this. In the first century AD the copying of manuscripts was a ...

Chronological Listing of the New Testament Books

Feb

2007

Today I thought I’d do a google search for a chart giving a chronological listing of the New Testament books, according to the date authored. Maybe I’m just a really bad googler or something, but I had a hard time finding something that was (a) easy to read, and, (b) worth looking at. While there ...