Lorna Ashworth’s motion on ACNA

Posted on February 12, 2010 
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Anglican TV has made available the video of Lorna Ashworth’s speech in support of the Anglican Church in North America at the Church of England General Synod.

Votes for 309, against 69, abstentions 17.

Audio of the entire debate is available from the Synod website.

Vanishing Christianity — A Lesson from the Presbyterians

Posted on February 12, 2010 
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The liberalism of the Presbyterian Church of the USA is not new, but a recent survey highlights the issues. In writing about the survey, Albert Mohler concludes,

“This is a church that has lost its confidence in the Gospel in terms of the clear biblical claim that salvation comes only through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. … The crisis has migrated from the pulpits to the pews, and recovery is only a dim and distant hope…”

– The report to which Dr Mohler refers in his article is available here.

(The older, now liberal, PCUSA, about which he writes, should not be confused with the PCA, of which Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, is a member.)

Honour for Sydney churchman

Posted on February 12, 2010 
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“The deputy chancellor of the Diocese of Sydney, Robert Tong, has been appointed a member of the Order of Australia for services to the Anglican Church. The award was announced on Jan 26 in the Australia Day honours list…”

– The Church of England Newspaper reports the Australia Day Honours – via George Conger’s blog.

Ageless newsletter Feb 2010 online

Posted on February 12, 2010 
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The February 2010 issue of Ageless, the newsletter of TABA (Ministry To and By the Ageing) is now available as a PDF file from their website.

(TABA is a ministry of the Anglican Deaconess Institution Sydney.)

Anglican Church (of Canada) facing threat of extinction

Posted on February 11, 2010 
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“The Anglican Church in Canada – once as powerful in the nation’s secular life as it was in its soul – may be only a generation away from extinction, says a just-published assessment of the church’s future.”

– The Globe and Mail reports.

C of E General Synod votes on ACNA

Posted on February 11, 2010 
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“The Church of England today offered the slenderest of lifelines to the dissident US conservative Episcopalians who split from their church after it elected a gay bishop.

The general synod – the church’s parliament, meeting in London – passed a motion recognising the breakaway group’s desire to remain Anglicans but declined to promise to ally with them in their ongoing wrangles with the mainstream US church…”

– The Guardian reports on the Church of England General Synod vote on the Anglican Church of North America.

For a much more positive assessment, here’s a media release from ACNA —   Read more

Should South Carolina be nervous?

Posted on February 11, 2010 
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From the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina –

“Recent actions by The Episcopal Church which impact the Diocese of South Carolina have caused the Bishop and Standing Committee to postpone our upcoming Diocesan Convention. Bishop Lawrence has written an important pastoral letter to both the clergy and laity of the Diocese which explain the actions taken.”

– Read Bishop Mark Lawrence’s pastoral letter explaining why he has postponed the diocesan convention. (PDF file.)

Matt Kennedy on ‘Leaving home’ (part 2)

Posted on February 10, 2010 
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A year ago, Matt Kennedy and his congregation at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Binghamton, New York, lost their property to the Diocese of Central New York. Matt continues the story of what happened next — at Stand Firm. (Missed Part 1?)

Photo: Ten News, Syracuse.

‘Why should I be driven out?’

Posted on February 10, 2010 
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Bishop of Fulham, and Chairman of Forward in Faith UK, John Broadhurst, was interviewed for this week’s HardTalk on BBC TV. There’s a 2’50” clip here.

The English General Synod: The Centre Cannot Hold

Posted on February 10, 2010 
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“If Lorna Ashworth’s Private Member’s Motion ‘That this Synod express the desire that the Church of England be in communion with the Anglican Church in North America’  is passed by the Church of England’s General Synod tomorrow,  she will have done  a great service to English Anglicans as well as the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) because it is as much about the English Church as the Church in North America.

She poses precisely the sort of question that the Church of England’s leadership wants to avoid because the ACNA represents a choice which must be made between two incompatible forms of religion – historic biblical Anglicanism and that pseudo- Anglicanism being promoted by TEC and its allies which derives its energy from the spirit of the age rather than the Spirit of Christ.…”

– Charles Raven writes about the choice facing the Church of England General Synod.

Make the most of Easter 2010

Posted on February 9, 2010 
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It may be 2010, but many Sydney churches are continuing Connect09 as Connect for Life.

Whatever you call it, there are still plenty of resources to help churches share the gospel.

Christine Semple in the Connect for Life office has some suggestions. (Click the image at left to get the new logo.)

The Homegoing of OT Scholar D.J. Wiseman

Posted on February 9, 2010 
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Old Testament scholar D.J. Wiseman has died – and Professor Alan Millard at the University of Liverpool has written this tribute.

via Phillip Marshall at Biblical Languages (h/t Kevin Murray).

Reform highlights ‘huge practical problems’ with women bishops

Posted on February 9, 2010 
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Press release from Reform, 08 February 2010:

The Church of England’s present plans for legislation on women bishops show that “nothing is being done to head off the huge practical problems” that will result said Reform Chairman, the Rev Rod Thomas, today. Speaking on the day that the Bishop of Manchester was reporting on the issue to the General Synod, Mr Thomas said that the biggest problem would be a “drastic cut” in the Church of England’s future intake of young ordinands.  Read more

Dick Lucas on Preaching

Posted on February 8, 2010 
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In November 2006, Dick Lucas gave the third annual Charles Simeon Sermons on preaching at Taylor University in Indiana.

As always, Dick Lucas’ sermons are encouraging and challenging – especially for those with the enormous privilege and weighty responsibility of preaching.

Here are direct links to the mp3 files –

1. The School of Christ
2. Truth Worth Knowing
3. Through a Glass Darkly
4. That People May Know
5. God’s Knowledge of Us!

Video of some of the talks is also available on the Chapel archive page.

ECLA Presiding Bishop and Archbishop of Canterbury discuss common issues

Posted on February 6, 2010 
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“Rev Mark S. Hanson [Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America] met with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams for a private hour-long meeting … at Lambeth Palace in London.

Hanson said the two leaders discussed strengthening Anglican-Lutheran relationships, challenges each leader faces within his own communions…

Hanson told the ELCA News Service … ‘We talked not only about how this time of ‘reception’ can strengthen the ministries and mission we share, but provide new opportunities for us to be engaged in ways we haven’t even imagined…’ ”

– Story and photo from the ELCA News Service.

Related: Lutherans adopt statement on sexuality.
Continue the ‘conversation’ and keep giving your money.
Wearing the disguise of Faithfulness.

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