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May 05 2023 By dvirtue CHUCK COLLINS: Discipleship is not a self-improvement project, "I am already there"

So, instead of looking at prayer, Bible reading, serving, and church-going (and did I mention tithing?) as ways to inch our way closer to God's blessing and affection, Christian disciplines, to be "Christian," are pried from the hands of "you must" and "you ought" and completely redefined to be the grateful responses to God's prior love.

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May 01 2023 By dvirtue The Pelagian Default

On May 1, 418 over two hundred bishops meeting in Carthage declared Pelagius a heretic and refused to ordain Caelestius, Pelagius's disciple, when he would not renounce the teaching. Pelagius was a 5th century British monk who was ridiculously popular for teaching the message people wanted to hear. He held a view of original sin weak enough to allow the possibility that someone can actively contribute towards their own salvation.

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April 26 2023 By dvirtue GAFCON IV - Renewing the Power of Love: The Heart of Historic Anglicanism

Yet, what could be more Anglican than understanding Christian discipleship as nothing other than an on-going, life-long commitment to regular repentance? After all, repentance lies at the heart of our liturgical life. Thomas Cranmer's final, founding liturgy has daily Morning and Evening Prayer beginning with repentance. His final service for Holy Communion has confession, absolution and the Comfortable Words in the very center, right before the ancient call to lift up our hearts.

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April 24 2023 By dvirtue GOOD MORNING ACNA

It is obvious to everyone that the ACNA brought extremely diverse groups together under one tent based on our common disgust and grief at what the Episcopal Church has become.

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April 11 2023 By dvirtue RESURRECTION OF THE BODY

I have almost always thought that it all ended for Christians in heaven: you die, you go to heaven. But the Bible doesn't teach this. This is not a bad hope, but it's so much less than what God really has planned for us. When Christians die they go to heaven - "today you will be with me in paradise," Jesus told the thief on the cross.

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April 03 2023 By dvirtue The Jerusalem Declaration: a summary of authentic Anglicanism

The Jerusalem Declaration
29th June 2008

The participants in the first Global Anglican Future Conference met in the land of Jesus' birth. They expressed their:

i loyalty as disciples to the King of kings, the Lord Jesus;

ii joyful embrace of his command to proclaim the reality of his kingdom which he first announced in this land;

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March 30 2023 By dvirtue JESUS PRAYED FOR UNITY - John Stott

We often hear it taught that Christ prayed for unity above everything else, so we should strive for unity at any cost. We are hearing this now as we face a fractured Anglican Communion with divided views on identity and sexuality. 'Disagreement is a bad witness to the world. Why can't evangelicals lay differences aside?' Are evangelicals wrong to stand for apostolic truth, at the potential cost of separation, even fragmentation?

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March 23 2023 By dvirtue ANGLICANISM: DEPRAVED INSTITUTION VERSUS DIVINE INSTRUCTION

The test of true Anglicanism, that is Reformed Catholicism, is a Confessional matter: Adherence to Holy Scripture, testimony in accord with Scripture [the Word of God], faithful witness to Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer, the salvaging of the human soul through divine grace alone, by faith alone [Augustinianism, as resurgent and clarified in the Protestant Reformation], accurate and earnest proclamation to every sinner within sound of the precious message of the mercy of God, and profound r

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March 22 2023 By dvirtue CRANMER: Burned at the stake for his ideas

Archbishop Cranmer is the lesser-known of the sixteenth century reformers but, as recent scholarship has shown, he was a first-class thinker alongside the best minds of the Protestant Reformation. Comparatively, he shied from the limelight and he never relished the hand-to-hand combat with the popes and potentates that seems to fuel some of the other reformers.

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March 14 2023 By dvirtue Is Palestinian Liberation Theology biblical? Part 2

By the end of the 1948 war, the dispossessed Palestinians numbered over 750,000. Most people in the West were not aware of this side of the tragedy. The Palestinian Arabs were largely invisible to the eyes of the West. They were overshadowed by the victims of the Holocaust, whose plight received greater significance and publicity.[2]

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