For 5,000 years, every culture and every religion -- not just Christianity -- has defined marriage as a contract between men and women. There is no reason to change the universal, historical definition of marriage to appease 2 percent of our population." - Rick Warren, Saddleback Pastor and author
Read moreA hearty appetite. There is perhaps no greater secret of progress in Christian living than in healthy, hearty spiritual appetite. Again and again Scripture addresses its promises to the hungry. God 'satisfied him who is thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things' (Ps. 107:9). If we are conscious of slow growth, is the reason that we have a jaded appetite? It is not enough to mourn over past sin; we must also hunger for future righteousness.
Read moreDear Brothers and Sisters,
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12/7/2008
Some 700 churches with 100,000 members now plan a major outreach to the U.S.'s more than 130 million unchurched Americans free of the liberalism and gospel-denying denomination they have left behind.
Their hope now is that this new entity will be recognized as a legitimate province of the Anglican Communion.
Read moreTheological liberalism is a cancer. It is "respectable unbelief." It is the hiss of the serpent in the Garden asking "Hath God said...?" It arises from within an ecclesiastical body, pretends to be a legitimate part of that body, and then feeds off of the resources of that body until it has grown strong enough to kill its host.---Rev Brian Carpenter, Presbyterian Church in America
Read moreDear Brothers and Sisters,
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11/22/2008
Before this year ends, history will be made in North American Anglicanism.
Read moreUnited to Christ. When we become united to Christ by faith, something so tremendous happens that the New Testament cannot find language adequate to describe it. It is a new birth, yes, but also a new creation, a resurrection, light out of darkness, and life from the dead. We were slaves, now we are sons. We were lost, now we have come home. We were condemned and under the wrath of God, now we have been justified and adopted into his family.
Read moreMemory is a precious and blessed gift. Nothing can stab the conscience so wide awake as memories of the past. The shortest road to repentance is remembrance. Let someone once recall what they used to be and reflect on what by God's grace they could be, and they will be led to repent, turning back from their sin to their Saviour. --- From "What Christ Thinks of the Church" John R.W. Stott.
Read moreFor just as we go to the doctor only when we admit that we are ill and cannot cure ourselves, so we will go to Christ only when we admit that we are guilty sinners and cannot save ourselves. The same principle applies to all our difficulties. Deny the problem, and nothing can be done about it; admit the problem, and at once there is the possibility of a solution.
Read moreIt was a week of litigation across the country in The Episcopal Church.
In a civil court in Norristown, just outside Philadelphia, Charles E. Bennison, the disgraced and deposed Bishop of Pennsylvania, faced four days on charges he committed fraud and deceit in denying Fr. David L. Moyer a trial for allegations that he abandoned the communion of the church.
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