Sermons on Various Important Subjects

The Roman Empire stood at the height of its power, and its learned men expected Christianity to vanish. Its messengers? Twelve poor, despised men, most of them fishermen.

In this first sermon, Andrew Lee looks back to the early Christian church, spreading from Judea into a world ruled by Rome and opposed by both Jewish and Gentile powers. Writing in the early nineteenth century, Lee asks how a faith carried by men without worldly rank or learning could challenge religions established for ages. The apostles had no sword to compel belief; their strength, he argues, came from gifts that made their message heard across nations—and from a purpose no enemy could defeat. Why, then, did God choose such unlikely messengers?

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