Petition to support B&B owners in Cornwall

Posted on January 6, 2011 
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While the petition being organised is for UK citizens only, it’s good to be aware of this case involving a Christian couple who run a Bed & Breakfast in Cornwall.

The Christian Institute has the background on their website – including this one page fact sheet (pdf).

And here’s a story from Mail Online (8th Dec 2010).

For UK readers, the petition, calling the Prime Minister to repeal or amend the UK’s the Sexual Orientation Regulations, may be seen here.

Churchman article on Bishop J C Ryle

Posted on January 5, 2011 
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“Well-wishers sent him an ornately embroidered cope and mitre, but he returned them, saying he ‘had no intention of making a guy of himself’, and another gift of a pastoral staff was graciously, but firmly declined: ‘No staff for me, if you send me a staff I shall lock it up in a cupboard and never see it again. A Bishop wants a Bible and no staff.’…”

– Church Society has republished Eric Russell’s 1999 Churchman article on Bishop J C Ryle. Available here as a PDF file.

‘Marriage of 2 lesbian Episcopal priests adds new twist to gay issues’

Posted on January 4, 2011 
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“Episcopalians here and across the country are already divided over whether to elect gay bishops and allow their priests to perform same-sex weddings. Now they have another issue to discuss: The marriage of two lesbians who are high-level Episcopal priests in Massachusetts.

In a wedding that appears to be the first of its kind in the U.S. – at least in the Episcopal Church – former Plymouth priest the Rev. Mally Lloyd married the Rev. Katherine Ragsdale, dean and president of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, on New Year’s Day.”

– report from The Patriot Ledger in Boston.

Related: “Abortion is a blessing”. (Photo: Episcopal Divinity School.)

The Pursuit of Holiness – free audiobook

Posted on January 3, 2011 
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The free audiobook from Christian Audio for January 2011 is Jerry Bridge’s The Pursuit of Holiness. Grab it here.

Stott on Charles Simeon

Posted on January 3, 2011 
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In November 2004, at Taylor University in Indiana, John Stott delivered a 33 minute introduction to Charles Simeon. The video was recently uploaded to Vimeo.

On preaching, Stott quotes Simeon: “Does [the sermon] uniformly tend to humble the sinner, to exalt the Saviour, and to promote holiness?”

(h/t Justin Taylor, who also has some useful links.)

Narnia Invaded

Posted on January 3, 2011 
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Writing before the release of the most recent film, Steven D. Boyer looks at the Hollywood interpretation of the Narnia books.

“If there is a possibility that Lewis was right—even a bare possibility—then this loss of the original Narnia, this domestication of Aslan, is distressing indeed. It signals nothing less than an invasion by a foreign and hostile power.

The creators of this ‘new improved’ Narnia have taken the single element in Lewis’s tales that twenty-first-century viewers most need to be instructed in, and they have recast it so that it contributes to the error rather than correcting it.”

– In the November–December edition of Touchstone.

‘Communion for Anglican bishops becoming Catholics’

Posted on January 2, 2011 
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“Three Anglican bishops who are converting to Roman Catholicism have taken holy communion at Westminster Cathedral, with three ex-Anglican nuns…”

– Report from BBC News.

Biblical inerrancy

Posted on January 1, 2011 
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“I have long wanted to write a serious piece on the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. Recently I was given the opportunity to do so through an invitation to contribute to a volume essays, The Bible and the Academy: Critical Scholarship and the Evangelical Understanding of Scripture in the 21st Century, edited by James Hoffmeier and Dennis Magary and to be published by Crossway in 2011.

I do not intend to reproduce the article here but instead simply to outline its argument…”

– ACL President Mark Thompson writes at Theological Theology.

Accordance for iOS

Posted on December 31, 2010 
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Those who use Accordance 9 Bible software may be interested to know that it’s now available for the iPhone and iPad. It’s a free app, and if you already have purchased modules, they can be used. Details here.

Mark’s Gospel performed by Max McLean

Posted on December 31, 2010 
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Looking for something worthwhile to watch on New Year’s Eve?

Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds points out that the video of Max McLean performing The Gospel According to Mark is available in its entirety on YouTube, thanks to the Fellowship for the Performing Arts Theater Company.

See at all here – you can see the entire Gospel performed in about 90 minutes. Well worth your time.

Two-Year Bible Reading Plan

Posted on December 30, 2010 
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One of the most-searched-for terms on our website is “Bible reading plans” – and here Stephen Witmer on The Gospel Coalition website has some helpful thoughts – as well as a quote from Robert Murray M’Cheyne.

Barry Newman on ‘Science & Genesis 1:1–2:3’

Posted on December 28, 2010 
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Barry Newman has now uploaded all his blog posts on “Science and Genesis 1:1 – 2:3” as a single PDF file.

“One of the most significant areas that we believers need to address is the scepticism that arises because of what is perceived to be the consequences for belief of commitment to certain cosmological, biological evolutionary, anthropological, psychological and sociological theories. This blog series and ones hopefully to follow, will attempt to examine afresh the early chapters of Genesis to see what implications there are for such theories. Its main emphasis however will be on the text of Scripture itself rather than the theories themselves.”

– There’s plenty to provoke thought and further investigation.

Assurance and Perseverance

Posted on December 25, 2010 
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“I was recently asked to write a brief response to a question about assurance. The questioner had been troubled by the question (or rather by some responses to the question) ‘Can a believer lose their salvation?’

The question of assurance is a deeply troubling one for many. In every church where I have served there have been people who have struggled with this question…”

– Mark Thompson writes on “Assurance and Perseverance” at Theological Theology.

See also Mark’s (unrelated) previous post, Whatever happened to ad fontes?

“Many of the great advances of the Renaissance and Reformation eras were built upon the humanist program of education in the eloquence of antiquity. Intellectuals such as Desiderius Erasmus believed that society could be improved, and the abuses and errors of the past corrected, through serious and extensive engagement with classical literature.

In the field of theology, one of the most decisive changes was an insistence on first-hand engagement rather than a reliance on secondary summaries of great thoughts from the past. Instead of relying on the Vulgate, Greek and Hebrew studies flourished. Instead of working from collections of purple passages from the church fathers, reading extensively in their works was encouraged as a means of properly understanding the context and significance of things they taught…”

Christmas Day sermon 2010 — Bp Stuart Robinson

Posted on December 25, 2010 
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Read Bishop Stuart Robinson’s Christmas Day sermon — to be preached this morning at St. John’s Reid, in Canberra. (PDF file.)

Peter Jensen’s 2010 Christmas message

Posted on December 24, 2010 
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See Archbishop Peter Jensen’s 2010 Christmas message – 90 second video. Text here.

“Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, came to dwell among us, and save us from our failures.”

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