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September 07 2023 By dvirtue COMPREHENDING THE LOVE OF GOD

As to the passage in question, the Apostle Paul prays for the believers in Ephesus that they may really know about the love of God. Given that this is found in the larger context of what starts a few verses earlier, let me offer that fuller text (verses 14-19) here:

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August 31 2023 By dvirtue English Reformers were Unashamed Moderate Calvinist

But after substantial consistency around the Settlement and the established formularies for the first generation of Anglicans, the anti-Calvinists, Arminians, established a foothold in the church and they have continued to dig in ever since.

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August 28 2023 By dvirtue MAINTAINING THE CLASSIC ANGLICAN TRADITION

Article VI. Holy Scripture contains all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of Faith or thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those Canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, of whose authority was never in any doubt in the Church.

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August 11 2023 By dvirtue WHAT HATH NEWMAN WROUGHT

According to Newman, the Oxford Movement was launched by a sermon in 1833 ("National Apostasy") in which John Keble fussed at the nation for not being more like the prophet Samuel. This was followed by a series of 90 "Tracts for the Times."

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August 09 2023 By dvirtue Edward VI: The Boy-King and the Protestant Reformation

There was not immediate enthusiastic agreement about these monumental changes, and there were some who were willing to fight and even die for the old Latin mass. But in the end, the Church of England upheld the Bible as its primary authority, guided by the Bible's central message of justification by grace through faith alone. It shifted focus from the Medieval sacerdotal priesthood to universal priesthood (of all believers).

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August 06 2023 By dvirtue No Golden Age of the Church -- The Book of Jude

Although Jude spends most of his letter talking about such ungodly people, his real focus is on "those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ" to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints." This is to be their focus. Yes, they are to watch out for those who have crept in unnoticed and who deny the Lord Jesus Christ.

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August 04 2023 By dvirtue THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH FATHERS

The fathers as individuals bequeathed to us much that is edifying, spiritually stimulating and interestingly and charmingly useful in our Christian nurturing, particularly those who have come to be regarded as the most significant and well-known as the "oft-quoted" in matters of pastoral concern and development of life in Christ. Many Protestant publications are raising the profile of the fathers in our time.

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July 25 2023 By dvirtue Heresy! Why Christians must confront false teaching

The Henrician Canons of 1535 referred to heresy as "fireballs by which the Church is inflamed and continues to burn miserably". These 16th-century reformers said the devil "daily piles up even more firewood in the shape of false opinions". These would be thrown by Satan into the Church, to cause as much trouble as possible and lead people astray.

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July 21 2023 By dvirtue Why Do Christians Call God Father?

The power of the word "Father" is its specificity. We have only one biological dad; usually, that's the only person we will call "Father." Sometimes, if our dad has died or departed, we will use the term "Father" for an adoptive dad.

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July 12 2023 By dvirtue Anglicans, Let's Stay True to Our Confessional Heritage

Ensuring that clergy embrace, and laity study, the Articles and our other often forgotten but official formularies (the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and the first and second Books of Homilies)--could help to fix the doctrinal incoherence Anglicans have grappled with for decades.

Returning to the Articles could help to fix the doctrinal incoherence Anglicans have grappled with for decades.

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