| Volume 30 | Number 7 | July 2008
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Shuv (Turn, Return, Restore, Convert)
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This month's issue features author, JAMES PHILIPPS. For twenty years and
counting, James has ministered as a catechist in the classroom and in print.
His latest books, Understanding St. Paul, Understanding the Bible (both part
of the Jump Starts for Catechists series), and Turning Points: Unlocking the
Treasures of the Church, are published by Twenty-Third Publications. |
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HOW TO LIVE OUT THE AMAZING GRACE OF FREEDOM
Paul writes to the Galatians and the Ephesians
Most North Americans associate
the country of Turkey with
the Islamic faith. For the first
1,000 years of Church history,
however, the geographical area
known as Asia Minor that is the
territory of the modern nation
of Turkey was a bastion of the
Christian faith. Virtually all of the
essential dogmas and doctrines
of the Christian faith were put
into words at ecumenical church
councils meeting in towns such as
Nicea, Ephesus, and Chalcedon.
Even as early as the late first century
AD, the time in which the
book of Revelation was written,
we can see the central importance
of Christian Asia Minor. All seven
churches addressed in the first
part of the book are located there.
The conversion of Asia Minor
to the Christian faith was largely
the enterprise of St. Paul and his...
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