Next week I leave for Italy, 15 days of service in Bologna, down to Florence, and eventually to Rome. Following is a little prelude… a glimpse of what it’s like to be a missionary on the peninsula by my colleague and good friend Mark Brucato (caution: don’t watch this on an empty stomach, lest your mouth salivate and cause you to drool upon your keyboard).

Augustine on Justification (what you must know)
The most significant patristic source of the Protestant Reformation was Augustine of Hippo. In centuries preceding the sixteenth, interest in Augustine had flowered, spawning a