Posts from July 2019

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John Chrysostom AD 349-407

by Open Gate Ministries

One of the great preachers of his day John Chrysostom nicknamed “Golden Mouth” was a bright light in the darkness of cultural disgust for the message of the gospel. One such adversary to the gospel Libanius a learned and great philosopher of the day and an instructor of John was asked on his deathbed, which […]

Origen

by Open Gate Ministries

Origen was born in the year AD 185. He suffered great loss; his father, Leonides, was beheaded for believing in Christ. With great zeal, only a teenager, he attempted so to the prison to join his father in death. He mother unable to bear the loss of her son as well as her husband, hid […]

Athanasius: Early Church Father

by Open Gate Ministries

St. Athanasius, also called Saint Athanasius of Alexandria or Saint Athanasius the Apostolic, (born 293, died 373), theologian, ecclesiastical statesman, and Egyptian national leader. He was the chief defender of Christian orthodoxy in the 4th-century battle against Arianism, the heresy that the Son of God was a creature of like, but not of the same, […]