Purgatory: A Protestant Perspective

Roman Catholic apologists often appeal to church history to support Catholic teaching concerning purgatory. Many Protestants are less familiar with church history on this question, and tend to focus on making biblical arguments. In this video I offer an overview of a Protestant perspective on purgatory, putting special focus on the development of this doctrine throughout church history. Truth Unites is a mixture of apologetics and theology, with an irenic focus. Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai. SUPPORT: Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/truthunites One time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/truth... FOLLOW: Twitter: https://twitter.com/gavinortlund Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TruthUnitesP... Website: https://gavinortlund.com/ MY BOOKS: https://gavinortlund.com/mypublications/ PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/truth-unites 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - Three Framing Remarks 06:12 - 1. Protestant Concerns in Historical Context 21:53 - 2. Purgatory in Church History 25:38 - Clement + Origen 27:49 - Cyprian 31:42 - Apostolic Fathers 33:27 - Tertullian 35:15 - Irenaeus 35:40 - Hippolytus 37:23 - Eastern Developments 39:03 - Council of Florence 40:17 - Western Development After Origen 41:27 - Lactantius 42:02 - Ambrose 43:24 - Jerome 43:55 - Augustine 44:50 - Ephrem + Aphrahat 46:46 - Ambrose on Theodosius 48:50 - Gregory of Nazianzus 52:38 - Pseudo-Justin 53:12 - Cyril of Alexandria 54:27 - John Chrysostom 1:03:51 - Conclusion from Church History 1:04:58 - 3. Purgatory in Scripture

Getting Ghosty With Saint Augustine

In this episode, Matthew Esquivel will walk us through the life of Saint Augustine and how witnessing the supernatural gifts performed in the name of Jesus converted him out of cessationism.

New Year's 2015 - "A New You" - John 3:1-15

Well it's New Year’s 2015. How many of you guys have made a New Year’s Resolution? Culturally we love and celebrate New Year’s because it represents a time to start over, that we can change, that we can start off with a clean slate. I’m not against new year’s resolutions I think they can be helpful, I think they can be a form of repentance but New Year’s cannot produce a new you. Resolutions can produce behavior modification but not heart transformation

Big Idea: Jesus didn't come to make us better; he came to make us new! 

-The Necessity of New Birth (John 3:1-3) 

-The Nature of The New Birth (John 3:4-6)

-The Evidence of the New Birth (John 3:7-8)

-The Basis of the New Birth (John 3:9-15)

You can listen to "A New You" by following this link. 

  

The Quest for True Happiness

"No one can possibly escape unhappiness if they worship happiness as a god in itself and forsake the one true God, the true source and giver of happiness. In the same way, no one can escape hunger who licks at a picture of bread and does not eat for real, physical, sustaining bread"
(Augustine's The City of God paraphrased)