New website displays Certainty
Just in time for World Youth Day, the Certainty.org.au website is now live. Check it out and pass on the address to your friends.
(For background, see this earlier post.)
Bishops waver as Lambeth beckons
With the once-in-a-decade Lambeth Conference just days away, hundreds of bishops are planning to stay away whilst others remain in two minds after this week’s vote in support of women bishops. … The Archbishop of Kenya, the Most Rev Benjamin Nzimbi, meanwhile confirmed in a statement on Thursday that the Kenyan Church would not attend Lambeth in protest of pro-gay bishops present at the conference. …
Although the conference is due to open on Wednesday, the Bishop of Europe, the Rt Rev Geoffrey Rowell, said he was “astonished” at the lack of information handed out so far on the details of the Lambeth programme, according to The Telegraph. …
– Report from Christian Today. (Photo of Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi: Joy Gwaltney.)
No other foundation
“The foundation of the true church was laid at a mighty cost. It needed that the Son of God should take our nature upon Him, and in that nature live, suffer and die, not for His own sins, but for ours. It needed that in that nature Christ should go to the grave, and rise again. In needed that in that nature Christ should go up to heaven, to sit at the right hand of God, having obtained eternal redemption for all His people. No other foundation could have met the necessities of lost, guilty, corrupt, weak, helpless sinners.
The foundation, once obtained, is very strong. It can bear the weight of the sins of the world. It has borne the weight of all the sins of all the believers who have built on it. Sins of thought, sins of imagination, sins of the heart, sins of the head, sins which everyone has seen, and sins which no man knows, sins against God, and sins against man, sins of all kinds and descriptions — that mighty rock can bear the weight of all these sins, and not give way. The mediatorial office of Christ is a remedy sufficient for all the sins of all the world.”
– Encouraging words from Bishop of Liverpool, J.C. Ryle, in Holiness. (With thanks to First Importance.)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…