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March 27 2011 By virtueonline Liturgy offers continuity, comfort, focus in worship

The term "liturgy" literally means "service" or "work," referring to the work of the church: worship.

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March 23 2011 By virtueonline What Is Evangelicalism?

One noted evangelical, D. A. Carson, spent a chapter on this issue in his 1996 book He noted what a fluid and amorphous creature evangelicalism is: "Giving a definition to evangelicalism is not only difficult, but is growing even more difficult as a wider and wider group of people apply the label to themselves. It may be, as some have suggested, that the term will eventually so lack definition as to be theologically useless..."

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March 23 2011 By virtueonline Evangelist Charles Colson's final mission: Spiritually cloning himself

"This is the time for us to metastasize and impact society." the gravelly-voiced former Nixon aide tells his rapt audience. "And this is a really, really urgent hour."

For decades after emerging from a federal penitentiary, Colson focused on building what has become the world's biggest prison ministry. Now, at 79, he has shifted his attention to the final mission of his remarkable life: saving what he regards as true Christianity from American extinction.

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February 18 2011 By virtueonline I Am In Awe of Such Faith

As of yet the media and the world seem to have taken little notice of Said Musa. There are currently less than 100 mentions of Musa in the news and most of them are not considered part of the mainstream media, other than the Wall Street Journal.

Musa wrote a public letter which I will excerpt here, courtesy of The Barnabus Fund. The English is rough but I think you'll understand what he's saying:

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February 18 2011 By virtueonline Guest Reflection: Confidence in the Gospel

Blair's opponent was the prominent atheist and journalist Christopher Hitchens, whose book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything became a Canadian best-seller.

Who won the debate? Well, among the 2,700 people in the audience at Toronto's Roy Thompson Hall, 68 per cent sided with Hitchens, while Blair got 32 per cent of the final vote.

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February 04 2011 By virtueonline The Good News About Evangelicalism

In other words, evangelicals are not as powerful a cultural force as previously thought, and in the future they will be even less so. Neither of these claims is true.

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February 02 2011 By virtueonline LAUSANNE CONGRESS 'CAPE TOWN CALL TO ACTION' AGAINST POSTMODERNISM

A) We long to see greater commitment to the hard work of robust apologetics. This must be at two levels.

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January 24 2011 By virtueonline Why don't all these disaffected Brits convert to Christianity instead?

Actually, when I say 100,000, that's just the figure that an organisation, Faith Matters, put on the trend last week. It follows a separate report by the US-based Pew Forum, which said that there are, in fact, 2.9 million Muslims in Britain, a hefty increase from the 1.6 million in the 2001 census.

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January 24 2011 By virtueonline Why don't all these disaffected Brits convert to Christianity instead?

Actually, when I say 100,000, that's just the figure that an organisation, Faith Matters, put on the trend last week. It follows a separate report by the US-based Pew Forum, which said that there are, in fact, 2.9 million Muslims in Britain, a hefty increase from the 1.6 million in the 2001 census.

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January 24 2011 By virtueonline Why don't all these disaffected Brits convert to Christianity instead?

Actually, when I say 100,000, that's just the figure that an organisation, Faith Matters, put on the trend last week. It follows a separate report by the US-based Pew Forum, which said that there are, in fact, 2.9 million Muslims in Britain, a hefty increase from the 1.6 million in the 2001 census.

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