(This is final part of Jacob Head’s guest post series. I appreciate him allowing the use of his material here while I am out of town at a conference.)
First and foremost, a hermeneutical agreement needs to be reached. In this matter there is talk of conscience, equally valid individual exegesis, and private interpretations. I […]

(This is a continuation of the guest post series by Jacob Head, Christians in the Legions.)
I’ve come across some rather interesting statements from early Christians:
Tatian:
I do not want to rule, I do not wish to be rich, I reject military command, I have hated fornication. (Oration 11)
Tertullian:
But now inquiry is made about this point, whether […]

This is a guest post by Jacob Head.
While rereading Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I stumbled on this little gem:
“On [a legionair’s] first entrance into the service, an oath was administered to him, with every circumstance of solemnity. He promised never to desert his standard, to submit his own will to […]

“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.” Philippians 3:20,21
This passage seems short and simple, but is […]