Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
This pithy observation from Forward Leadership: Unlike us, when God speaks, He has something to say. My Pastor spoke last Christmas about the 400 years of silence “between” the Old and New Testament. When He finally spoke…WOW! I don’t offer this post as if I always hear God’s voice, never get discouraged, or that you …
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The day after I posted Brian McLaren's Learning How to Love, now this: Hat tip to Stand Firm in Faith for this.
This is a "blast from the past," originally written 20 July 2006 between the Episcopal Church's General Convention in Columbus, OH and the Church of God General Assembly in Indianapolis, IN. I'm reproducing it to make it more accessible; thanks to Jonathan Stone for his interest in this; Jonathan Martin also made a strong statement …
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I found this entry in Nick Park's blog (also here) very interesting: My thinking about this was sparked by a meeting I attended while in the US recently. The preacher was a fairly young guy (younger then me anyway!) but his preaching was of a style that seemed to belong to an older generation. It …
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Recently, I commented on MissionalCOG that the greatest opportunity for the Church of God was the planting of 1,000 new Hispanic churches. Below is information on this program, in English and Spanish.
On the other hand, Edwards, the greatest Reformed theologian between Calvin and Barth, systematically integrates justification and sanctification, faith and works, election and perseverance, forensic righteousness and mystical participation. This is significant not only for relations between Reformed and Catholic theology, but also for evangelicals and Catholics. Evangelicals have had their own problems putting asunder …
For more than a century, Bible translators have laboured to translate God’s Word into modern English. The Twentieth Century New Testament was the work of a committee of lay people and clergy alike who were products of the same educational system that produced some of the giants of English literature. It was a pioneering effort …
Robert Easter (who is sorely dissappointed that I'm not planning on formally reverting to Anglicanism any time soon) made a very good point in his comment on my piece Is Charismatic Culture African? Your source on the “Sola Panel” scares the bejabbers out of me. A parallel statement would be, “This whole business of an …
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Another Church of God General Assembly is, as I like to say, “in the can.” The “preachers' watering hole” in the lobby at the Marriott Rivercentre (the bar, for my Anglican friends, was Starbucks) is quiet now, having been the place to be for much of the Assembly. All you had to do was to …
I've been posting (especially this) recently in concert on some interesting discussions that my church has been having in anticipation of our General Assembly. Well, this is the culmination of that: the Mission of Jesus Resurgence Meeting at same General Assembly. You can watch below, or click here and interact with the meeting (if it's …
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