Welcome to a bonus episode of five minutes in church history.

Recently I sat down in the Renewing Your Mind studio to chat about the past six years of this

podcast.

That's right, it's been that long for this podcast.

Well, we shared some highlights with the listeners

over at Renewing Your Mind, and I really wanted you,

our five minutes in church history listeners,

to hear it too. I hope you enjoy this bonus episode.

Augustine liked to call humanity Adam's sinful lump and this great potter, the magnus, pulls some clay from this lump and reshapes it.

He redeemed sinful hearts through the atoning blood of the sacrifice of the God man on the cross.

God gives us peace. That's Ligoner teaching fellow Dr Stephen Nichols from his podcast Five Minutes in Church history.

Every week he offers a brief glimpse of how God has worked in the church from one generation to the next

and how we can draw encouragement from that today.

We're pleased to have Dr Nichols with us today.

He is president of Reformation Bible College,

Ligonier Ministry's chief academic officer, as well as a noted church historian.

And also joining us is our director of communications here at Ligonier Ministries, Nathan W Bingham.

And it's great to have you both with us today.

Dr. Nichols, it was six years ago that you launched five minutes in church history.

Tell us how it came about.

Yeah, you know, I had this idea for a podcast on church history.

And when we were thinking about this, we were thinking about well, how do you bring this into folks' lives?

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