Thank you to everyone who packed boxes for Operation Christmas Child this year! Last year, a small group of women from RVC packed 5 boxes. This year, as we opened up the opportunity to the whole church, we had an ambitious goal of packing 25 boxes. As a church, we packed a total of […]
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“Nor must we forget that the toleration of Rome, such as it was, was nearer akin to contempt and indifference. Now, the toleration which springs from contempt is often intensely intolerant of one thing, namely, of enthusiasm… A wise recognition of local usages was one thing, provided always that the interests of the State were
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“Christ could not be one among many; His claims rested upon higher grounds than senatorial allowance.” Herbert Workman, Persecution in the Early Church, p. 58.
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“A Christianity which had ceased to be aggressive would speedily have ceased to exist. Christ came not to send peace on earth but a sword; against the restless and resistless force of the new religion the gates of hell should not prevail. But polytheism could not be dethroned without a struggle; nor mankind regenerated without
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“Their criticisms, when examined, appear far more subtle, than solid; and it seems as if nothing can possibly be strong enough, nothing perspicuous enough, in any composure whatever, to stand before such liberties as these writers indulge. The plainest and most nervous [vigorous] discourse is analysed and criticized, till it dissolves into nothing, or till
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