As has often been remarked, there is between Christianity and all other religions one prominent characteristic and real difference. Christ is, as it were, Christianity. He is the living Lord who now sitteth at the right hand of God and continues the work of redemption through His Word and Spirit. No other religion can compare.
In spite of two influential groups of Churches in the Netherlands, both originating in a secession from the Established Church, the one in 1834, the other in 1886, being brought together and holding their “First General Synod of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands”, the model of reformation remained in contention.
The centuries preceding the French Revolution (1789) are in many ways different from the epoch that followed. The radical change of direction introduced into the life and thought of the nations by this tremendous event shattered the continuity of history and impacted the matter of our faith.
When a person looks at the world round about him for the first time, a multitude of questions throng in upon him from all sides. For the questions that we are concerned with in our lives are innumerable and most of them are so insoluble that, after once having come to grips with them, we seem to feel unable to withdraw from the contest.
La Fuente, the Iberoamerican Journal for Christian Worldview, is an educational resource intended to equip the church with a biblical understanding of the world and her place in it.
What does the incarnation of Jesus Christ mean? What did the early church have to say about it? What were the implications of one’s view of the incarnation? Rev. Steven R. Martins explains that the very historic nature of Christianity makes it a unique, real, and living faith, over against materialist or spiritual heresies.
What is epiphany? The word “epiphany” can be defined as a “manifestation of God”, as what we see in the advent passage of Matthew 2:1-12, when the Christ was manifested to the magi. Rev. Steven R. Martins explains the biblical meaning of “epiphany” and what Christ’s revealed identity means for us.
La Fuente, the Iberoamerican Journal for Christian Worldview, is an educational resource intended to equip the church with a biblical understanding of the world and her place in it.
Church 2022 looks significantly different from its recent past iterations, though even then signs of impending infection were not absent. Paul Aurich provides a review of the new book Failed Church by the Center for Cultural Leadership.
We’ve read his gospel account, but who was he? Who was Matthew, one of the twelve chosen by Jesus?