Thinking about preaching
Posted on November 20, 2008
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Colin Adams in Edinburgh shares what he finds helpful about his senior pastor’s preaching…
“Peter Grainger is the current Senior Pastor of Charlotte Baptist Chapel, the 18th in its history. It has been an immense blessing for me to work under him for almost six years. Peter’s preaching has not only taught me many biblical truths. Sitting under his expository messages has probably been more influential in developing my own preaching style than anything else.…”
– Read it at Unashamed Workman.
Plans to create a conservative province ‘disturbing,’ says primate
Posted on November 20, 2008
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News of a plan to create a new North American Anglican province that would be defined by conservative theology rather than a geographic location may have been greeted with enthusiasm by delegates at the Anglican Network in Canada’s first synod last week, but Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, described the plan as “disturbing.”…
– Text of a report from the Anglican Church of Canada’s Anglican Journal – interspersed with commentary on the Anglican Essentials Canada blog.
Anglicanism upside down Down Under? – understanding Lay Administration
Posted on November 20, 2008
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“Conservative evangelicals, such as those typically found in Sydney, do not see themselves as bound to tradition as their High Church friends. Indeed, they are more than happy to reject Tradition if they understand it to be contrary to the Scriptures, as they understand Cranmer and his peers felt impelled to do.
It is no surprise that Sydney is a place that, while having a very low rate of usage of the Prayer Book, has a very high allegiance to the 39 Articles and the theology of the Prayer Book.…”
– David Ould explores Sydney thinking on Lay Administration – at Stand Firm.
Anglican Leaders seek to unite North American Churches
Posted on November 18, 2008
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Leaders of the Common Cause Partnership, a federation of more than 100,000 Anglican Christians in North America, will release to the public on the evening of December 3 the draft constitution of an emerging Anglican Church in North America, formally subscribe to the Jerusalem Declaration of the Global Anglican Future Conference and affirm the GAFCON Statement on the Global Anglican Future at an evening worship celebration in suburban Chicago. …
– Read the full media release from The Common Cause Partnership.
Verbal Aspect & all that jazz in Biblical Greek
Posted on November 18, 2008
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Con Campbell’s new book, Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek, is now available.
He recently wrote several blog posts on it at Zondervan’s Koinonia blog: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5
Here’s a list of scholars endorsing the book.
(Thanks to Justin Taylor.)
New North American Province set to be formed on 3rd December 2008
Posted on November 17, 2008
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Bishop Bob Duncan of Pittsburgh has just announced that a meeting of the Council of the Common Cause Partnership will be held in Wheaton, Illinois, on December 3rd – with the intention of forming a new North American Anglican province and to adopt the Jerusalem Declaration.
Speaking in Pittsburgh, Bishop Duncan, who was joined by Bishop William Murdoch of the Province of Kenya, said
“We want to bring Jerusalem to North America, we want to embrace the movement that began at the Global Anglican Future Conference, we want to claim our place as members of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans…”
Anglican TV has video of the announcement.
New Dean for Newcastle Cathedral
Posted on November 17, 2008
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From a press release from the Diocese of Newcastle –
“The Anglican Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Brian Farran, is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Dean of Newcastle and Christ Church Cathedral.
Dr James Rigney (49), an Australian who is presently the Chaplain and Director of Studies in Theology at Magdalene College in the University of Cambridge, will take up the prestigious position of Dean in mid March 2009.”
In the meantime, a new Dean for St. David’s Cathedral in Hobart is being sought, following Dean Lindsay Stoddart’s retirement.
Fort Worth joins Southern Cone
Posted on November 16, 2008
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Delegates attending the 26th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth on November 15 overwhelmingly approved realignment with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.
It was the fourth time within 12 months that members of a diocese severed ties to the Episcopal Church, which has a total of 110 dioceses…
– An Episcopal Life Online report. (Image: Results posted on the Fort Worth website.)
Bishop Jack Iker’s Address to the Diocese of Fort Worth
Posted on November 16, 2008
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“We here in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth intend to be who we have always been, to believe what we have always believed, and to do what we have always done.
We are not going away, nor are we abandoning anything. We are not leaving the Church – we are the Church. We will remain an orthodox diocese of catholic Christians, full members of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Above all else, we remain committed to serving and obeying the Lord Jesus Christ, upholding the authority of the Holy Scriptures as the revealed Word of God and our ultimate authority in all matters of faith, morals and doctrine.”
– Read Bishop Iker’s full address at the Diocese of Fort Worth.
Watch the Fort Worth Convention
Posted on November 15, 2008
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As the Diocese of Fort Worth’s convention meets this weekend to vote on leaving The Episcopal Church, video of the proceedings will be streamed live on the internet.
See it at ustream.tv.
Robert Gagnon on Homosexuality and the Bible
Posted on November 15, 2008
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In this 28 minute video from Pure Passion, Robert Gagnon answers some common objections about homosexuality and the Bible. Very helpful.
Watch it on Vimeo via Between Two Worlds.
Canadian clergy unveil new plan
Posted on November 14, 2008
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Breakaway conservative Anglicans hope to set up a new entity within the church to rival the established power structure in Canada and the U.S. within the next three months. And they say failure to recognize their efforts could irrevocably divide the communion.
“If this new province doesn’t work, there’s probably going to be a much bigger split than just North America,” Bishop Don Harvey told a news conference yesterday.…
– Report from The Toronto Star.
Stand Firm interviews Bishop Jack Iker
Posted on November 13, 2008
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“I fully expect that I’ll receive notification from the Presiding Bishop’s office, within days of our diocesan convention, that I’ve been inhibited. Of course by then it will be irrelevant, because I won’t be under the authority of the Episcopal Church. But they’ll play that out in the same that they did with Bishops Schofield and Duncan.…”
– Bishop Jack Iker is interviewed by Greg Griffiths for Stand Firm.
See also this report by David Virtue. (Photo: Stand Firm.)
Reason 4 Hope
Posted on November 13, 2008
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Video and audio resources courtesy of Audio Advice – at Reason 4 Hope.
(Note: the video files are of the order of 200MB+.)
We are contending for the Faith: Fort Worth
Posted on November 13, 2008
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“Contending for the Faith” is the theme of this year’s Diocesan Convention, and it aptly describes what lies at the heart of the controversy that surrounds us.
Others have argued that it is a matter of contending for property, or contending for the authority of The Episcopal Church over us, or contending for homosexual rights in the church. But these are simply some of the side issues confronting us.
The real issue is the faith. We are taking a stand for the historic faith and practice of the Bible, as we have received them, and against the continuing erosion of that faith by TEC. This Diocese stands for orthodox Christianity. TEC stands for a revisionist and compromised version of what the Church has always taught..…
– Bishop Jack Iker writes as the Fort Worth Convention on November 14 and 15 draws closer.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…