Access All Areas conference 2008 announced
Posted on March 26, 2008
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Christians in the Media has announced this year’s Access All Areas conference, to be held May 22-24 – “Access All Areas 08 will be the most important conference of the decade for Christians in the media, journalists, editors, producers and executives in print, broadcast and online.”
– Details from Christians in the Media.
Statement from the Global South Primates Steering Committee
Posted on March 25, 2008
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Five Primates – Archbishops Peter Akinola, Greg Venables, Emmanuel Kolini, Mouneer Anis and John Chew – met together as the Global South Primates Steering Committee from 13th to 15th March 2008 in London. They have released a statement which can be read on the Church of Nigeria website.
(Photo of Archbishop Kolini via George Conger.)
Not Dead Yet: The Lost of Tomb of Jesus — one year later
Posted on March 25, 2008
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When the symposium’s scholars returned home and picked up their copy of Time or switched on CNN, they got quite a shock. Deeply divided? That wasn’t the symposium that they had attended. … they couldn’t remember much of anyone arguing that the Talpiot Tomb belonged to Jesus of Nazareth. Why did CNN give all that air time to Jacobovici and none at all to the fifty-some experts taking part in the symposium? They were upset, to say the least. …
Read the rest of this article at the National Review. (with thanks to Stand Firm for the link. Image: Harper Collins.)
Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
Posted on March 25, 2008
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To answer the question of Jesus’ resurrection from a historical standpoint, we must first determine what facts concerning the fate of Jesus of Nazareth can be credibly established on the basis of the evidence …
A useful summary by William Lane Craig on Baptist Press.
See also SBTS President Al Mohler’s column on “Must One Believe in the Resurrection to be a Christian?” –
Now, [Deepak Chopra, the New Age president of the Alliance for a New Humanity] writes as one who knows he is “someone outside the Christian faith,” but what makes his point so interesting is that it is almost precisely the argument made by liberal Protestant theology – that it is enough to believe that the Apostles experienced a special consciousness of the risen Christ.
Spurgeon on Preaching Christ
Posted on March 24, 2008
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“I believe that those sermons which are fullest of Christ are the most likely to be blessed to the conversion of the hearers. Let your sermons be full of Christ, from beginning to end crammed full of the gospel. As for myself, brethren, I cannot preach anything else but Christ and His cross, for I know nothing else, and long ago, like the apostle Paul, I determined not to know anything else save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. …”
Advice from C. H. Spurgeon, via Between Two Worlds.
Bishop condemns embryo study plan
Posted on March 24, 2008
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The Bishop of Durham has attacked [UK] government plans which could allow scientists to create embryos combining human DNA and animal cells.
In his Easter Sunday message, given at Durham Cathedral, Rt Rev Tom Wright issued a rallying call to all faiths to object to the “1984-style” proposals. …
Report from the BBC. (Photo credit: Diocese of London.)
Sydney Archbishop warns against occult
Posted on March 22, 2008
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In his Easter message this weekend, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Dr Peter Jensen has warned of the occult.
The Archbishop is particularly concerned about people using the supernatural to contact deceased loved ones.
Dr Jensen told ABC radio’s AM program there has been a surge of interest non-traditional religions. …
Read the report – and listen to the interview (3 minute / 1.8MB mp3 file) on ABC Radio.
(Photo: Anglican Media Sydney.)
Archbishop Peter Jensen’s Easter Message
Posted on March 21, 2008
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Do you believe in ghosts, spirits and such like? I know lots of people do. Even if people come back as ghosts, they are not full people. They are more like memories of people, wisps of humanity.
I know that some of you have been really heartbroken by the loss of a person in your life and you try to contact the person. This is very dangerous – meddling in the occult is never a good idea. Anyway, as the old saying goes, death is so permanent. It is irreversible. We will be joining them, but they’ll not be joining us. Read more
‘Dissident’ Anglicans retain church use
Posted on March 21, 2008
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Parishioners at three Anglican churches, who voted to break away from the national church, will celebrate Easter in their buildings after an Ontario Superior Court judge held off yesterday on deciding who gets the keys to the properties. …
Reverend Charlie Masters, who voted with his parishioners at St. George’s to break away from the Anglican Church of Canada and align themselves with the more conservative group, said he was delighted to have his church building to celebrate the holiest weekend in the Christian calendar. …
Story from Globe and Mail. (Photo: Rev. Charlie Masters, St. George’s Lowville)
The Intensity of Christ’s Love and the Intentionality of His Death
Posted on March 21, 2008
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The love of Christ for us in his dying was as conscious as his suffering was intentional. “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us” (1 John 3:16). If he was intentional in laying down his life, it was for us. It was love. “When Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end” (John 13:1). Every step on the Calvary road meant, “I love you.”
– a meditation from John Piper.
Updated website for St. John’s Shaughnessy
Posted on March 21, 2008
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For all who are upholding St. John’s Shaughnessy in their prayers – their website has been updated – and has a new address.
The new website can be seen at stjohnsvancouver.org.
Silly Rabbit, Easter’s Not for Kids
Posted on March 21, 2008
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No cross this Easter for some US Sunday School lessons –
“In order to be sensitive to the physical, intellectual, and emotional development of preschoolers, First Look has chosen not to include the Easter story in our curriculum. Instead, we are focusing on the Last Supper, when Jesus shared a meal and spent time with the people He loved. We have made this choice because the crucifixion is simply too violent for preschoolers. And if we were to skip the crucifixion and go straight to the resurrection, then preschoolers would be confused.”
Read the story by Russell Moore at the Resurgence.
The Christ Files screens at Noon Good Friday
Posted on March 20, 2008
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A Reminder that The Christ Files, a one hour documentary hosted by Dr. John Dickson, airs across Australia on the Seven Network at noon on Good Friday (March 21). You could invite your friends to watch it with you.
For details, visit thechristfiles.com.au.
Good Friday Offering handed to Bishop of Jerusalem
Posted on March 20, 2008
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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori presented the Good Friday Offering – a check for $158,801.42 – to Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem Suheil Dawani on March 18 at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. …
The Presiding Bishop, who is visiting the Holy Land March 16-24 at Dawani’s invitation, said it is a great privilege to be able to present the offering in person. …
– Story from the Episcopal New Service. (Photo: Episcopal Life.)
Confusion over HOB vote to depose orthodox Bishops
Posted on March 20, 2008
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Massive ecclesiastical confusion followed in the wake of a vote by the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops over whether or not two bishops were legally deposed at a HOB meeting in Camp Allen recently.
A report in The Living Church, following the deposition of Bishop John-David Schofield and William Cox, said that slightly more than one-third of all bishops eligible voted to depose bishops John-David Schofield and William J. Cox during the House of Bishops’ spring retreat, far fewer than the 51 percent required by the canons. Both resolutions were approved by voice vote. …
– Latest on the TEC House of Bishops’ ‘deposition’ vote by David Virtue.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…