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This is the traditional day when Monica is commemorated; Monica the mother of Augustine. Lots of people having praying mothers, but Augustine’s mother was really serious about praying for her son. By the way, Mother’s day is just a few days from now. Monica has an important role in Augustine’s world-famous autobiographical book The Confessions.…

Athanasius: Battle on Ten Fronts

May 2, 2009

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Athanasius of Alexandria (born around 293, died on this day, May 2, 373) stands out from the great crowd of witnesses that make up the early history of the church. If you’d like to begin reading the church fathers but don’t know where to start, consider starting with Athanasius. Anybody who understands the work of…

Today Fred Sanders was Born (1968)

Apr 11, 2009

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Matt Jenson

Fred Sanders (1968– ) is an American evangelical theologian known for his work on the doctrine of the Trinity and his Christian comic book series. (Seriously.) Raised in Kentucky, Sanders polymathically found his way into any number of intellectual huddles in the early part of his career. He began his formal post-secondary education training as…

Charles Wesley was Ready to Die

Mar 29, 2009

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Charles Wesley (born 1707, died March 29, 1788) lived a long and fruitful life, died peacefully at home, and was buried in the yard of his parish church. His family was gathered around him and some of them wrote descriptions of how he died. His death was not really remarkable except that it was such…

Today is St. Patrick’s Day

Mar 17, 2009

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Today is the day we commemorate Patrick of Ireland, an amazing missionary who accomplished so much, and has been so beloved down through the ages that vast quantities of legendary material have stuck to him. I don’t want to get into the arguments about whether he really used a shamrock to explain the Trinity, whether…

Trinitarian Salvation according to Francis Schaeffer

Mar 16, 2009

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In 1951, Francis Schaeffer had an encounter with the Trinity that revolutionized his life. I wrote about that discovery in a previous post. It sparked the phase of his ministry that we all remember him for, and put him in touch with a sense of spiritual reality he had lacked before: “a moment-by-moment, increasing, experiential…

Gregory’s New Decalogue

Mar 12, 2009

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Gregory of Nazianzus, in his sermon on Baptism (Oration 40:65), stumbles into an interesting comparison and makes the most of it for his preaching. He is thinking of how the Christians he is about to baptize are being introduced into the great mystery that is life in Christ, and it makes him think of the…

Today John Wesley Died (1791)

Mar 2, 2009

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This is the day John Wesley died. Wesley’s influence was vast: Some historians have ventured the idea that he was instrumental in a revival movement that did so much good in England that it preserved the nation from suffering its own version of the French Revolution. That would be hard to demonstrate, but he really…

Today “Rabbi” Duncan Died (1870)

Feb 26, 2009

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John Duncan (1796 – February 26, 1870) was no Rabbi; he was a Scottish pastor who did missions work among the Jews in Hungary. Luminaries like Adolph Saphir (author of The Hidden Life) and Alfred Edersheim (author of The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah) were converted under his ministry. He was so involved…

“Come, Christian Triune God Who Lives” (Francis Schaeffer)

Feb 25, 2009

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Listen to Francis Schaeffer’s words from his 1972 book True Spirituality. In the chapter entitled “The Supernatural Universe,” he says: Little by little, many Christians in this generation find the reality slipping away. The reality tends to get covered by the barnacles of naturalistic thought. Indeed, I suppose this is one of half a dozen…

Today is Sarah Fuller Flower Adams’ Birthday (1805)

Feb 22, 2009

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