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The Way The Truth And The Life

June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Church Renewal · News · Theology

Bringing The Gospel To Covenant Children - Review

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Church Renewal · Review · Theology

“I Can Believe Whatever I Want!”

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: History · Theology

All Crossed Up - Michael Horton

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Commentary · Theology

Naming God - By Right Or Revelation?

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Gerry Charlotte Phelps - From Radical Activist To Radical Christian

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Ministry and Outreach · Society · Theology

Escaping The Bunker Mentality

January 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Ministry and Outreach · Reflection · Theology

Holy Innocents Day December 28th 2007

December 28th, 2007 · No Comments

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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The Subversive Message of Christmas - Jesus Christ Is Messiah

December 25th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Christ Is All · Commentary · Theology

Why Muslim Background Believers Turn To Jesus Christ And What We Should Remember This Christmas

December 15th, 2007 · No Comments

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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