This unique devotional work collects together the early Christians’ best insights, reflections, and practical counsel on godly living, prayer, love, and the inner life. It reflects the spiritual depth and wisdom of men who lived totally for Christ. It enables the reader to taste first hand the fresh, untainted spirit of early Christianity.
Roger Hertzler. Jesus told us, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” And again, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.”
Many Christians who take Jesus’ commandments very seriously on nonresistance and divorce shrug off His teachings on laying up treasures on earth. In this challenging book, Hertzler challenges all of us to take Jesus’ teachings on wealth seriously.
David Bercot. Many Christian books and commentators today portray Jesus as the first feminist. These commentators typically point to the Mishnah to argue that Jesus’ treatment of women was nothing short of revolutionary in His day. However, Bercot demonstrates how feminist commentators have fabricated history in an attempt to show that Jesus overthrew the very order of headship that He—as our Creator—instituted.
This message is scheduled to be released in August, 2015 as an audio CD set. However, this message is available now to read as a Kindle e-book. To purchase the Kindle book, please click on the following link.
Justin Martyr
A contemporary translation of two early Christian works: Justin Martyr’s “First Apology” and Mark Felix’s Octavius. These are two of the most interesting early Christian works.
Were The Early Christian Writings Tampered With? One of the questions David Bercot is frequently asked is: How do we know that the early Christian writings haven’t been tampered with? Can we really put our complete confidence in their authenticity?
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D. Bercot. The Book of Acts ends with Paul’s first imprisonment in Rome. But what happened after that? What eventually became of Paul? What about Peter, John and the rest of the apostles? How far did Christianity spread in the 1st and 2nd centuries? Who led the church after the apostles died? What challenges did the new church face? Happily, we don’t have to guess about such matters. We have clear historical records that shed considerable light on what happened during the first century after the Book of Acts was written.
Aren’t all “Bible-believing” Christians the same? Isn’t it enough that we all believe in Jesus as our Lord and Savior? In this vital e-book, Bercot explains that there is an enormous difference between ordinary “Bible-believing” Christians and genuine “Kingdom Christians”—Christians who live by the Kingdom teachings of Jesus. Kingdom Christians are believers who have made loyalty to Christ and His Kingdom the foremost passion in their lives.
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What the Early Christians Believed About Entertainment. Discusses the arena, theater, and sporting events of that time period and explains how the early Christians were different from the world of their day.
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Once a person has been saved from this world, can he or she lose their salvation? Or, to put it another way, is salvation a “once and done” operation, or is it conditioned upon an abiding obedient relationship with Christ? When a person receives Christ, does he receive pre-forgiveness for every sin he may commit in the future—or does he receive forgiveness for past sins? Bercot explains what the early Christians believed about those questions.
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What the Early Christians Believed About Salvation. Bercot explains how the early Christians understood salvation as a two-stage process. He quotes extensively from their writings and then takes the reader to the New Testament to demonstrate that what they believed is exactly what the New Testament teaches.
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What the Early Christians Believed About the Head Covering, or woman’s prayer veil. What was Paul referring to in 1 Corinthians 11? A veil? Long hair? A custom that only applied to the Corinthians?
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What The Early Christians Believed About the Two Kingdoms. The average Christian today has never even heard of the doctrine called “the two kingdoms.” Yet, it was a fundamental belief of the primitive church. Without understanding the concept of the two kingdoms, we cannot really embrace apostolic Christianity.
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What The Early Christians Believed About War. Jesus taught his followers to love their enemies. Did this mean that they could not go to war against them? How literally did the early Christians take Jesus’ teachings?
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