Page CXVI album free download this week

Posted on April 27, 2010 
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The US-based Christian band Page CXVI has just released a new album of Hymns (called Hymns II) – and to help publicise it, they are making their first album (not surprisingly called Hymns) available as a free download this week.

You can preview their albums before you buy / download. See their website here.

New Bishop of Bunbury

Posted on April 27, 2010 
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“On Saturday, 17th April 2010 Anglicans from around the South West and Great Southern gathered together in Bunbury and elected The Rt. Revd. Allan Ewing to be the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Bunbury. Currently Bishop Allan is serving in the Diocese of Canberra/Goulburn.”

– from the Diocese of Bunbury website.

Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild

Posted on April 27, 2010 
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“This is a wonderful book with amazing insight into the hearts of women (and men!) who feel pressured by today’s ‘wild’ culture – and also deep, spiritual insight into the Bible’s wisdom regarding the beauty of true womanhood as God created it to be.”

—Wayne Grudem on Mary Kassian’s new book, Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild.

More endorsements at Between Two Worlds. Available from Moore Books.

Reaching the unreached

Posted on April 25, 2010 
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Tim Chester, in Sheffield, writes –

“Last year I ran some posts on the Reaching the Unreached conference organised by the South-East Gospel Partnership at St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London with a view to raising the profile of mission to the council estates and disadvantages areas in the UK…”

There are also links to last year’s conference audio, and info on this year”s conference. (Melvin Tinkler’s talk is very challenging.)

ANZAC Day message from Peter Jensen

Posted on April 24, 2010 
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The video of Archbishop Peter Jensen’s ANZAC Day message is available from SydneyAnglicans.net.

Fourth Trumpet — from GSE4

Posted on April 23, 2010 
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The Fourth Anglican Global South to South Encounter (meeting at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, 19th – 23rd April 2010), has issued this Communique.

Here are some excerpts.

“We welcomed the election of the Most Rev’d John Chew as the new Chairman, the Most Rev’d Henry Orombi as Vice-Chairman, The Most Rev’d Mouneer Anis as Secretary, the Most Rev’d Nicholas Okoh as Treasurer …

15. As a sign of our fellowship and an encouragement to our purpose, at the beginning of our assembly God sent into our midst two Nepalese Anglicans, members of the new Anglican Church in this principally Hindu and Buddhist nation. … We rejoice with them in their newfound faith and their determination to be obedient to the Word of God in a setting where such obedience is very costly. …

16. In contrast, we continue to grieve over the life of The Episcopal Church USA (TEC) and the Anglican Church of Canada and all those churches that have rejected the Way of the Lord as expressed in Holy Scripture. …

17. We uphold the courageous actions taken by Archbishops Mouneer Anis (Jerusalem and the Middle East), Henry Orombi (Uganda) and Ian Ernest (Indian Ocean) and are encouraged by their decision not to participate in meetings of the various Instruments of Communion at which representatives of The Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada are present. …

19. We were pleased to welcome two Communion Partner bishops from The Episcopal Church USA (TEC) and acknowledge that with them there are many within TEC who do not accept their church’s innovations. We assure them of our loving and prayerful support. …

Read it all.

GSE4 Day 3 — 21st April 2010

Posted on April 22, 2010 
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“What does it mean for the Churches in the Global South to be a ‘Light for the Nations?’

The day started with Archbishop Robert Duncan presiding at Holy Communion. In his homily, Abp Peter Jensen reminded us that we, who are “deeply, truly and permanently loved” are truly free. We do not “go our own way” to find freedom, but we come to Jesus, the bread of life…”

– The report on Day 3 of the fourth Global South-to-South Encounter, in Singapore, from the Global South website. (Photo: Global South Anglican.)

Singapore: Shadow and Substance

Posted on April 22, 2010 
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Charles Raven writes on the significance of GSE4 – at SPREAD.

“Although not attended by great fanfare and ceremony, something quite remarkable seems to be happening in Singapore at the fourth Global South to South Encounter. We are seeing the emergence of a global Anglicanism of substance, displacing the shadow Anglicanism of institutional pragmatism.

Institutions which until recently had the appearance of substance – the Anglican Consultative Council, the Lambeth Conference, the Primates meeting and the Archbishop of Canterbury himself – are now taking on an unreal quality as shadows of a discredited past while the GAFCON movement, dismissed by many at its inception in 2008, is turning out to have foreshadowed a fundamental realignment which is now beginning to express itself in new structures…” (more.)

(Note: Charles Raven has updated the text of his commentary slightly on his website.)

Themelios April 2010

Posted on April 22, 2010 
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Themelios is out and, as usual, is packed with worthwhile articles. The main index is here.

Among the many book reviews are –

Paul Barnett’s review of James D. G. Dunn’s Beginning from Jerusalem, and

Con Campbell’s review of Daniel B. Wallace’s book Granville Sharp’s Canon and Its Kin: Semantics and Significance (“Rarely is a book on Greek syntax enthralling, let alone immensely significant. Daniel Wallace’s new book on the Greek article is both.”).

Episcopal diocese sues to get church back

Posted on April 21, 2010 
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“The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin filed a lawsuit last week against St. James Anglican — the historic Red Church — in Sonora. It was news to St. James’ priest, the Rev. Wolfgang Krismanits, on Monday afternoon.

“We’ve had no word whatsoever,” he said. “I’ve seen nothing yet. I didn’t get an e-mail. I didn’t get a phone call.”…

– full story from The Modesto Bee in California.

And in another parish: St. John the Evangelist, Stockton, California.

(Photo: The Red Church.)

Mission in your own back yard?

Posted on April 21, 2010 
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Four Sydney churches say ‘yes’ in this 9 minute mini-documentary from CMS NSW.

(Download it and use it in church! – Sign up to Vimeo and then find the download link on the bottom right of this page.)

Expose and banish darkness

Posted on April 20, 2010 
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Anglican TV has posted online video of Archbishop Akinola’s welcome to the GSE4 in Singapore yesterday.

“This, sadly, is the eighth year since we have not all been in communion with one another, globally, in the same Anglican Church. It appears that some of our leaders value the ageing structures of the communion much more than anything else, hence, the illusion that with more meetings, organisations and networks the crises will disappear. How wrong.”

Church, mission, evangelism and programs

Posted on April 20, 2010 
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“… what has become known as the Knox-Robinson doctrine of the church, or the Sydney doctrine of the church, was never just an idiosyncratic expression of Australian anti-authoritarianism. It arose out of the revival of evangelical biblical scholarship following World War II — Alan Stibbs produced some of his material for Tyndale House conferences in Cambridge and Donald Robinson wrote the article on church for the IVF’s landmark New Bible Dictionary.

Nor was it ever exclusively based on a limited word study of the Greek word for ‘church’ in the New Testament, ekklesia (a jibe still thrown about today)…

The current level of confusion, even among some who consider themselves sympathetic to the basic outlines of this exposition of the doctrine, suggests that there is a need for a fresh restatement of it.”

– ACL President Mark Thompson, at Theological Theology, sees many benefits from taking a closer look at the doctrine of the church.

Providence

Posted on April 20, 2010 
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“If we are uncomfortable with the idea of providence why is that? One reason is because we are influenced by a scientific worldview which can be presented as supporting a mechanistic understanding of the world…”

– David Phillips writes on the importance of a Christian understanding of Providence, in Cross†Way. (PDF file.)

‘The Gospel of Jesus Christ’ — Abp Okoh at GSE4

Posted on April 19, 2010 
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This evening Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, the new Primate of Nigeria, gave the opening thematic address of GSE4 at Singapore’s St Andrew’s Cathedral. He was preceded by welcomes from the Conference host, Archbishop John Chew and Chairman, Archbishop Peter Akinola.

– Read them on the Global South website.

(Photo: Church of Nigeria.)

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