Liberti Church Carrara Sermons

Full of faith and the Holy Spirit, Stephen became the first in a long list of faithful men and women who suffered the loss of their own lives for proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord. Biblically and historically, opposition for the sake of the gospel is normal Christianity. And yet even in times and seasons of tremendous persecution, the message of God’s love in Christ continues to advance across the world. As the early church father Tertullian famously said, “Kill us, torture us, condemn us, grind us to dust…the oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”