9Marks end of year video

Posted on December 24, 2010 
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Mark Dever and Matt Schmucker report on what 9Marks has been up in 2010.

Bishop Don Harvey’s Christmas message

Posted on December 23, 2010 
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Bishop Don Harvey, Bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada, shares his Christmas message for 2010:

“The good news of this great gift cannot be suppressed. We feel compelled to share it with a world of people who have wandered in so many sad directions, never successfully finding what they seek…

Each of us is entrusted with taking a part in seeing that ‘this Saviour who is Christ the Lord’ is made known to others as indeed He is made known to us.”

What’s left of Christmas?

Posted on December 23, 2010 
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What’s left of Christmas if you leave out Jesus coming to save men and women from sin and judgment? Not much.

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada demonstrate.

Bp of Canberra & Goulburn’s Christmas message

Posted on December 22, 2010 
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Bishop Stuart Robinson’s Christmas message, 2010 —

“Leo Tolstoy wrote a book in 1879 called A Confession. This work tells the story of his search for meaning and purpose in life. Rejecting Christianity as a child, Tolstoy left university and went out in search of pleasure. In Moscow and St. Petersburg he drank heavily, lived promiscuously, and gambled frequently. His ambition was to become wealthy and famous but nothing really satisfied him…”

– Read it all here.

A Christmas sermon ‘from Luther’

Posted on December 22, 2010 
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“Dr. Rod Rosenbladt preaches a Christmas sermon borne of Martin Luther’s writings, constructed by Dr. Roland Bainton, who taught history at Yale University from 1936 to 1961. Though Luther never wrote nor preached this sermon, it is assembled from his writings as a series of parts, as Dr. Bainton envisioned Luther could have written a Christmas sermon. This audio was dug up from the archives…”

– a 14 minute 9.6MB mp3 file from The White Horse Inn. Listen with a smile. (h/t Faith by Hearing.)

Abp of Melbourne’s Christmas message

Posted on December 21, 2010 
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Archbishop Philip Freier’s Christmas message in online in video form at the Diocese of Melbourne website.

Australian Church Record — December 2010 — now online

Posted on December 21, 2010 
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The latest edition of The Australian Church Record is now available as a free download from their website.

From the Editorial:

“At the present time, the ever-optimistic of our early baby boomer brethren can still be heard to say that this is a time of unprecedented change, as if what is going on still fits within the boomer rhetoric that any change is a good change. But what we are looking at right now is not change at all. It is collapse.

What we are witnessing is the death of a failed dream. What will come is a whole new world. As it rises from the ashes of the sixties ‘revolution against everything’, the gospel needs to be a part of the reconstruction.”

Seasonal Reflections from Carl Trueman

Posted on December 19, 2010 
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Carl Trueman has been posting some seasonal reflections at Reformation21. Part 1, part 2 and part 3 are now online.

From part 2,

“The glory of Christmas is the reality of the God in human flesh; and one of the greatest aspects of this incarnation is that which found its clearest doctrinal expression in the so-called Chalcedonian Formula of 451 AD. This rather dusty looking formula emphasized the union of the two natures, divine and human, in the one person of the Lord Jesus Christ.   While many of us instinctively recoil at the language of natures and person, as being somewhat abstract and philosophical, as taming what is really a most explosive biblical truth – that God entered history in human form — this formula is actually the most glorious of practical truths.  Actions are, after all, things performed by persons, not natures. Thus, Chalcedon underlines the fact that, when Jesus looked with pity on the woman with the flow of blood, we know that this was not something that his human nature did while the divine nature was somehow disengaged or hidden or even opposed to what he was doing. No, God manifest in the flesh looked with pity upon her. God saw, God knew, God acted with mercy.

Because God in Christ is a person, not two people or simply two natures spookily floating in the one space, the action of Jesus revealed something deep and wonderful about God himself: the one who created all things, the one who measures the very dimensions of the universe as if they were the mere span of his hand — this God looks with pity upon a poor, nameless woman in her sufferings which, while terrible to her, were of no cosmic significance whatsoever.”

‘Christmas 2.0’ (updated)

Posted on December 17, 2010 
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Apparently created to showcase the services of a Portuguese web-design company, this three minute viral video could have several uses this Christmas! See it on YouTube.

Also available in Portuguese(!).

(h/t Bishop John Harrower.)

And here’s another ‘social networking’ version of the Christmas story – but with a more reflective tone – linked by Steve Kryger at Communicate Jesus.

‘It is the moment I was really reborn’

Posted on December 17, 2010 
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“On Sunday 31st of October six young adults joyfully declared their faith before the congregation of Holy Trinity and were baptised. It was a time of much rejoicing…”

– A brief but encouraging report from Holy Trinity Adelaide – in the Diocese of Adelaide’s Guardian for December 2010. (3MB PDF.)

Oak Hill College Commentary magazine Winter 2010-11

Posted on December 16, 2010 
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David Peterson will be heading back to Oak Hill College in London to give the annual School of Theology lectures in May. That’s just some of the news in Oak Hill’s latest Commentary magazine for Winter 2010/2011.

Lots of great articles. Download your copy – a 6MB PDF file – from the College website.

BBC Radio 4 to devote day of reading of King James Bible

Posted on December 15, 2010 
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“The Daily Telegraph reports that the BBC will devote nearly a whole day of Radio 4 to readings from the King James Bible to mark the 400th anniversary of its publication…”

– Report from EV News.

Anglican TV on the Vancouver appeal decision

Posted on December 14, 2010 
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Kevin Kallsen at Anglican TV spoke with Cheryl Chang, Special Counsel to the Anglican Network in Canada, on the background to the latest ruling (which went against the ANiC parishes in Vancouver), and on the decision to seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

See it here. Helpful background. (Runs for 18 minutes.)

TEC focus on ‘climate justice’

Posted on December 14, 2010 
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“The Episcopal-Anglican gathering coincided with the second week of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico… Although there were many environmental action groups on the ground in Cancun, the Episcopal-Anglican gathering was the only known religious gathering of its kind taking place at the same time…”

– Anglicans, Episcopalians issue statement on climate justice, form commitments.

Also, Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, has written a Christmas message about those who walk in darkness.

Vancouver churches to appeal to Supreme Court of Canada

Posted on December 13, 2010 
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This news release is just in from the Anglican Network in Canada:

“This is not the path any of us would have preferred; however, we initiated court proceedings when threats to replace trustees began to be carried out and when the Diocese caused banks to freeze two parishes’ bank accounts.”

Parishes initiate appeal to Supreme Court of Canada

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  12 December 2010

Vancouver, BC – After several weeks of consultation within the parishes, the Trustees of four Vancouver-area churches have instructed their legal counsel to file an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada of a BC Court of Appeal decision (November 15, 2010) which removed their right to use their church buildings.  Read more

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