Father's Day - Honoring our Church Fathers

With the U.S. and England both celebrating Father's Day today, I thought it would be good to say a word about some Father's we often ignore. The Church's Father's are extensive:
Clement
Ignatius
Tertullian
Polycarp
Irenaeus
Ambrose
Augustine
Anselm
Aquinas
Wycliffe
Luther
Melanchthon
Zwingli
Calvin
Bucer
Menno Simons
Arminius
Wesley
Edwards
Spurgeon
Moody
and, those are only a few well known ones up to the 20th century.

Fathers of faith are men who have stood for the truth of the Gospel and sought to advance the Kingdom of God through the hard work of study, writing, teaching, discipling and in many cases, pastoring.
We who are Christians have a great legacy...people who have fought the good fight, hung on to the faith and lived out their lives in dependence upon, and great trust in almighty God.

I leave today for a two week trip to visit the countries of several of these. I'll leave some notes and hopefully some pictures along the way.
Your prayers are greatly appreciated.

Peace

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