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During the week of June 22, 257 Anglican bishops from around the world will gather in Jerusalem to discuss their true unity in Christ because, they sadly conclude, their former unity based on their historical connection to the English Reformation has been broken. For the Global South and Western Evangelicals, this historic church of the [...]

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The Congregationalists and the Evangelical and Reformed shared a common doctrine from their very origins - the doctrine of infant baptism.
In their respective confessions, both groups acknowledged the right of children born to Christian parents to be brought to the baptismal font thanks to their understanding of the sacrament.
This has lead to much misunderstanding by [...]

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Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted with permission from The Congregationalist magazine for the benefit of all our readers but especially those whose churches were called “Congregationalist” . It refers to The Cambridge Platform reprinted here previously. It’s next to closing sentence is well taken: “The exercise of the freedoms of the Congregational Way [...]

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Editor’s Note: Is the hope for renewal in the mainline to be found in mimicking the latest megachurch gadgetry? As other articles note, church renewal is not dependent on becoming a “clone” of a larger church. As Dr. Horton notes, neither is renewal dependent on finding “Super Pastor”.
Never mind Paul’s exhortation [...]

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Editor’s Note: Modern Reformed Theologian Peter Leithart (Ph.D. Cambridge) quoting Christopher Seitz raises an important question about how we so freely use “inclusive” language in our attempts to describe God. Our internal conflict over the issue is only possible because one side feels itself free to create names for God while the other reckons that [...]

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Editor’s Note: Gerry Charlotte Phelps has a unique story. A radical leftist activist who committed armed robbery in an attempt to fund her cause, she has become known as a radical Christian. As a United Methodist Minister, she not only helped revitalize stagnant mainline churches, she started two successful charities with outstanding success rates. What [...]

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One of the greatest tools of the Devil is despair. Pastors and Christian Leaders face this despair routinely. John Bunyan faced a deep depression for lengthy periods that only lifted briefly while he was preaching and then the dark cloud descended again.
For many of us, the malaise is not so severe. Instead of incapacitating gloom [...]

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When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was [...]

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Luke 2: 1 - 20
The Christmas story must not be relegated to the status of a cute bedtime story for children… Though Luke’s account records an inauspicious story in the regions beyond the seats or world power either then or now, Luke’s narrative is the proclamation that God Himself is sending the Messiah of Israel. [...]

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The President of the United States as this is written is George W. Bush. A mainline Christian with a Methodist background who states repeatedly that “Islam is a religion of peace” and that “we all worship the same God”, he well represents the mainline’s ignorance of the issues revolving around Islam.
This represents no special discrimination [...]

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