Confessions of a Saint

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Jun 27, 2025 · 4m

READ: ROMANS 13:13-14; COLOSSIANS 2:1-14 The early church went through many periods of persecution after Jesus’s ascension into heaven (Acts 1:9). Yet, the church grew quickly. By the 300s AD, large portions of the Roman Empire had converted to Christianity, including a man named Augustine of Hippo. Born in the year 354 in present-day Algeria, Augustine was one of the greatest thinkers in Christian history. But, like all of us, he wasn’t always a Christian. In his book Confessions, he shares that, early in his life, he really had no interest in Christianity whatsoever. He searched through all…