Standing at Sinai

Genesis 21 tells us that 4,080 years ago God the Holy Spirit visited Sarah, just as He had said He would do, and she bore Abraham a boy-child named Isaac, one who causes laughter. Now Abraham had two wives, and the first was jealous of the second. So Sarah, seizing on Ishmael’s cruel mockery of [...]

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The Lord’s Supper

From 1555 to 1558, during the reign of Queen Mary (aptly called “Bloody Mary”), 288 English Protestants were burned at the stake for their opposition to the Roman church. Out of this number 55 were women and 4 were children. The primary issue over which these martyrdoms turned was the doctrine of transubstantiation.
Over and over [...]

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