Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The third and final session of the Advent series at the North Cleveland Church of God, on 13 December 2023. https://youtu.be/dbzf8XG03Vo The slide presentation for this is here. This is a preview/overview of the rest of the liturgical year, including the Christmas and Epiphany seasons, the lead-up to Lent, Lent itself, Holy Week (where we …
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The second in a series of three sessions of an Advent series given at the North Cleveland Church of God on 6 December 2023. https://youtu.be/KYH4PHY1Jk0 The slide presentation is here. In this session some time will be devoted to the customs surrounding Advent, but much of this session will look at the Biblical events immediately …
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The first in a series of three sessions of an Advent series given at the North Cleveland Church of God on 29 November 2023. https://youtu.be/Fp1QNKA9FOU The slide presentation for this session is here. In this session the origins of Advent are discussed, not necessarily from a historical standpoint, but from a theological and Biblical standpoint, …
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She's crossed the line of eternity: That is why I no longer consider myself a Muslim apostate, but a lapsed atheist. Of course, I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity. I discover a little more at church each Sunday. But I have recognised, in my own long journey through a wilderness of …
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Matt Broomfield's sad piece about British Charismatic preacher Mike Pilavachi has many issues which need to be unpacked. I won't get to them all, but let's start with this: Anglicans don't need to be smug about this for the following reasons: Pilavachi is in fact an Anglican minister; Broomfield notes this and addresses him as …
I haven't engaged Bobby Grow in a long time (for good reason) but he, in his encapsulation of Karl Barth, Thomas Torrence, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham et.al., makes the following statement: At a purely superficial level, does the reader see how what Barth and Torrance are doing sound a lot like the characteristics present …
When my father was going through the process of becoming an Elder in the United Methodist Church, he was required to take courses on Diversity, … Immigration is religion’s only hope
That's been the underlying assumption behind the lament of the way academia has gone: Today, college degrees are utilitarian documents used to secure good jobs. American workism undermines the traditional purposes of higher education, things like the pursuit of knowledge and the development of virtue. John Henry Newman described the goal of a college education …
https://ifphc.wordpress.com/2023/08/08/gustav-h-schmidt-describes-the-horror-of-soviet-persecution-of-pentecostals-in-the-1930s-2/ In 1988, my own church took in 24 Ukrainian Pentecostals for resettlement in the U.S. (Well, they were a mixture of Ukrainians and Russians, but they were from the Ukraine, southwest of Kiev.) It was one of those experiences that doesn't happen often in life. We got to know people who had endured this …
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