Syria: Archbishop Welby’s speech in the House of Lords
Posted on August 30, 2013
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“We have heard already about Lebanon and about Iran, particularly the effect that an intervention would cause on the new Government in Iran as they are humiliated by such an intervention.
However, there is a further point. I talked to a very senior Christian leader in the region yesterday and he said that intervention from abroad will declare open season on the Christian communities. They have already been devastated. There were 2 million Christians in Iraq 12 years ago; there are fewer than 500,000 today.”
– Read it here.
ACL President’s address — 2013 Annual General Meeting
Posted on August 29, 2013
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President of the Anglican Church League, the Rev. Gav Poole, gave this address at the Annual General Meeting earlier this month:
“Chappo knew as much about denominational politics as anyone. He was after all a member of the ACL. But the legacy he left us with was a passion for the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
ACL President’s address, 15 August 2013
In 2003 I received an important lesson in priorities. At the time I was ministering in The Episcopal Church (TEC), Dallas, Texas.
In 2003, the TEC General Convention consented to a practicing homosexual becoming the Bishop of New Hampshire. That led to a sequence of events that changed the Anglican Communion forever. Read more
Assessing Christian election guides
Posted on August 29, 2013
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Sandy Grant takes a look at four different Christian election guides –
“Thoughtful Christians could benefit from interacting with each one of these election guides, even the ones where they find a considerable amount to disagree with.” – Read it at The Briefing.
“Archbishops past and present urge caution on Syria intervention”
Posted on August 29, 2013
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“Both Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and his predecessor George Carey have warned of the consequences of military action in Syria. …”
– Report and photo from The Anglican Communion News Service.
“Archbishop urges Christians to ‘repent’ over ‘wicked’ attitude to homosexuality”
Posted on August 29, 2013
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“The Most Rev Justin Welby told an audience of traditional born-again Christians that they must ‘repent’ over the way gay and lesbian people have been treated in the past …”
– Report from The Telegraph.
Preaching Christ in an age of Religious Pluralism
Posted on August 29, 2013
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Church Society has published online the audio of Gerald Bray’s talk at the 2005 Church Society Conference.
The topic: Preaching Christ in an age of Religious Pluralism (Acts 17 v16).
It’s a 38MB / 80 minute mp3 file (direct link).
Reaching the lost in England
Posted on August 29, 2013
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“While in parts of Latin America or Nigeria a street preacher can regularly lead 20 people to make a decision for Christ in half an hour, in France or Britain even Christians will hurry past a street preacher, embarrassed, and the brave speaker may be more likely to get arrested than make a convert.”
– Andrew Symes, the new Executive Secretary of Anglican Mainstream, writes on the challenge facing the Church in England.
Notes on Jeremiah by Graeme Goldsworthy
Posted on August 28, 2013
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To promote the soon-to-be-released Gospel Transformation Bible, Crossway have made available a free download of the book of Jeremiah, with an introduction and study notes by Graeme Goldsworthy.
– Download it here. (h/t Gary Ware. Photo: The Bible Society.)
What the Hijabi Witnessed (and what she didn’t)
Posted on August 28, 2013
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“I have had the pleasure on a couple of occasions of sitting next to a girl wearing a hijab. Typically, this has occurred in departure lounges of airports or on the platforms of railway stations. Never has it happened in a place of worship at the time of a service. Never, that is, until recently. …”
– Carl Trueman has some excellent points about what the girl next to him saw and heard. (Photo: King’s College.)
Related: Common Prayer. Better Gatherings.
How to be Polemical — without being a downright Nasty Person
Posted on August 27, 2013
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“The chief advances of the Christian faith are due to those moments when leaders and laypeople saturated with Scripture rose up in defiance of the unbiblical trends of their time and place. We have the Nicene Creed, the Apostles’ Creed, the Chalcedonian Creed, and the Reformation confessions and catechisms because, by God’s grace, men and women had the courage of their convictions and dared to be polemical.”
– Terrific article by Michael Horton in Modern Reformation magazine.
Modern Bioethics and its challenge to Christian thought
Posted on August 27, 2013
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“Modern Bioethics and its challenge to Christian thought” is the topic for the next Centre for Christian Living open night at Moore College. Dr Andrew Ford is speaking, 7:30pm Wednesday 28th August, $8.
Resource for Australian Voters
Posted on August 26, 2013
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The Australian Christian Lobby has released its comparison of policies of the major parties for the upcoming Federal Election. (Since some have asked: The Australian Christian Lobby and the Anglican Church League are quite separate – we just happen to have the same initials.)
Do you feel Called by God? — review
Posted on August 26, 2013
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“Michael Bennett’s book is brilliant. I loved it. Let me tell you why. Ever since I became a Christian at age 19 (1989), I have been baffled and confused by the way Christians speak about decision-making. I was always hearing people say stuff like “I feel God is calling me to do X, Y and Z”. They seemed to put an awful lot of emphasis on two words: feel and call. …”
– Ben Pfahlert is very glad to see this new book by Michael Bennett (who also brought us Christianity Explained).
Richard Baxter
Posted on August 26, 2013
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Tim Challies has continued his thumbnail sketch of key Puritans with this on Richard Baxter, author of The Reformed Pastor.
‘Discernment Synod’ held in Grafton
Posted on August 26, 2013
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A ‘Discernment Synod’ was held in the Diocese of Grafton over the weekend as part of the process to elect a new Bishop. (Bishop of Grafton, Keith Slater, resigned in May.)
The August/September 2013 issue of The North Coast Anglican carries a report, written before the Synod, on page 4.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…