Enjoy For Free What Happened At Nicea: The Creed They Formed There: How 226 Words, 44 Days, And St. Nicholas Having A Fistfight Can Change Your Faith And Your Life Penned By James L. Huffman Available Through Multimedia Format

recommend this reading to everyone, It had been awhile since I read the meaning of the Creed itself, and as I read this I found I hadn't really forgotten, just needed reminded.
Thank you for this book, This is a nice companion to Lenten reading, broken up intosegments, Each segment contains some scripture references, Despite the wordy title, the book itself is succinct and highly recommended, T'he Christian faith is simple enough that the most ignorant among us can know the basic

outlines of their faith, At the same time, it's also complex enough that scholars can spend their entire careers studying the faith, and still not plumb the depths of it.
But the church has made it easy enough for us to get a grasp on what we are given to believe and in getting that grasp can give us a lifetime of material to learn, meditate on, and grow from.
That "easy part" is the Nicene creed, Of course, the creed is not easy, Scholars have spent lifetimes just studying the creed itself, But it IS easy in the sense that it will give you an outline of your faith, centered around the confession of the Holy Trinity.
Many churches confess this creed every Sunday, and millions of Christians know it by heart, Maybe you are one of those folks, If so, you will find that this book will make you think about your faith, and grow deeper into that faith, But maybe you are someone who was never taught much about the Christian faith, Perhaps you are someone who would like to learn more about what the overbillion people on earth who are Christians believe and what motivates their faith.


Although this book can easily be read from cover to cover without stopping, it's divided by days,, to be exact. There's no magic to that number, Theis just taking the creed, bit by bit, phrase by phrase, and learning what each of those small segments are saying to us.


In English, the creed has onlywords, But these arewords that can change your life,

Every Christmas, many of the world's Christians think about St, Nicholas, who has come to us as Santa Claus, St. Nicholas lived in modernday Turkey fromAD to, He had a great reputation for kindness, and gave gifts to poor children,

But he was also a great contender for the Christian faith, and he attended the council of Nicea, held inAD.
Our creed gets its name from this council, when Christians from all over the Roman world convened to deal with the false teachings of Arius.
Arius was a skilled and persuasive speaker who taught erroneously about Christ's nature, and Christ's work, and at the council, Arius defended his teaching in his usual eloquent fashion.


Well, St. Nicholas was not happy with what Arius said, In fact, he grew so angry that he punched Arius, St. Nicholas probably still regrets having hit Arius, but it tells us something about how important our spiritual ancestors viewed correct teaching and belief.
Their passion for this teaching, their desire to know God better, gave us this creed,

So your life can change in justdays, Because that's what I encourage you to do, Take a segment each day, Read it, think about it, meditate on it, look up the scriptural references, and let it sink in,

And prepare to have your life changed, When we think about the big things of life, when we meditate on the big things, it really has the capacity to change us.
Not merely to know more about our faith, important as that is, But to have the chance to know the God who loves us even better, And that's the big goal of life, .