Sermons on Stephen"s Martyrdom

The First Christian Martyr Introduction:  Quintus Septimius Tertullian, the great second century apologist of the Christian faith, once said to the enemies of the Church, “We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.”  Later his statement was put into a motto and a rallying cry for the early church: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”  That was true in the first century and it is still true in ours.   Some of…