Preacher's Piece

People often say we need to learn from history. People also say that “history repeats itself.” As of late, there are certain forces in our culture that want to cancel our country’s history and reinvent it to be what they think it ought to be. I like history - especially firsthand history from the first and second centuries in the days of the early church. Those people suffered for the cause of Christ, many, if not most of the writers of the New Testament died early deaths because of their faith in Jesus Christ. Yet, when you read the New Testament, there is hardly a mention of the fac...