Eighty-Six Years of Lifting the Cup
In the winter of 155 AD, Roman soldiers led the elderly bishop Polycarp into the stadium at Smyrna. The crowd roared for his blood. The...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 116:12-13, 15-18.
In the winter of 155 AD, Roman soldiers led the elderly bishop Polycarp into the stadium at Smyrna. The crowd roared for his blood. The proconsul offered him a simple way out: curse Christ and walk free. Polycarp, steady as a man who had long ago settled the matter, replied, "Eighty-six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong.…
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