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Episode: Confessions of a Saint
Description: READ: ROMANS 13:13-14; COLOSSIANS 2:1-14
The early church went through many periods of persecution after Jesus’s ascension into heaven (Acts 1:9). Yet, the church grew quickly. By the 300s AD, large portions of the Roman Empire had converted to Christianity, including a man named Augustine of Hippo.
Born in the year 354 in present-day Algeria, Augustine was one of the greatest thinkers in Christian history. But, like all of us, he wasn’t always a Christian. In his book Confessions, he shares that, early in his life, he really had no interest in Christianity whatsoever. He sear...