Echoes of the Fathers
The Well of Wisdom From The Early Church
Recent Posts
- Is Salvation Merit-Based? Scripture and the Fathers on Grace, Faith, and Cooperation
- Giving Thanks & Praise that Our Eyes Were Opened in the Breaking of the Bread
- The Crumbling of Sola Scriptura: Our Journey to Apostolic Christianity
- The Crumbling of Sola Fide: Scripture & The Early Church on Faith Alone
- Why The Early Church Venerated Saints & Why Some Christian Traditions Still Do
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Throughout Christian history, believers have wrestled with a central question: Does salvation depend on our own merit, or is it solely the work of God’s grace? Modern debates (in particular when Catholics and Orthodox are mischaracterized) often force a false choice between salvation earned through effort on one hand and salvation received by faith alone…
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I always start every day and end each day in prayer, as well as reading scripture. Specifically, in asking the Holy Spirit to put me in the right frame of mind of looking at life through a positive, spirit-filled lens, I begin and end in prayer of thanksgiving for what the Lord has blessed with…
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As Amy and I started diving into discovering the roots for our faith in the early Church and reading scripture alongside the Church Fathers, one of the first pillars that came crumbling down for us was sola scriptura — or “scripture alone.” Simply put, that scripture is the sole and ultimate authority was, and is,…
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As with any maturing born-again Christian in a Bible-teaching church, one of the first passages I ever committed to memory was Ephesians 2:8–9: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast.” Now…
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On All Saints Day, it’s important in venerating the Saints to understand why we honor and venerate those who came before us. In the same way that great athletes, study other great athletes who came before them as role models, we study the saints and the lives they lived in fulfilling the Lord‘s plan, purpose…
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