Theology
Covenants And Creeds
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-010 COVENANTS AND CREEDS From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. The faithful God… maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments. Deuteronomy 7:9. Covenant is an important ingredient in building community. A covenant is more […]
Light
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-008 (Theology) Living Words of the New Testament, by Rev Dr Leon Morris LIGHT I have found twenty-four different words for “light” in the Bible. There is no great difference in meaning, but together they show that light is a very important concept. It was the first thing created (Gen. 1:3), and […]
C S Lewis On Authority
C S LEWIS ON THE OBJECT OF THEOLOGY What makes some theological works like sawdust to me is the way the authors can go on discussing how far certain positions are adjustable to contemporary thought, or beneficial in relation to social problems, or “have a future” before them, but never squarely ask what grounds we […]
Baptism – An ‘Acted Creed’
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-020 BAPTISM – AN ‘ACTED CREED’ From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. We have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so […]
Baptism – An ‘Acted Creed’ (A response)
Thought you’d be interested in this response, Rowland. Ron ——- Forwarded message follows ——- Hi, A good thought. I have long considered baptism and communion to be prophetic actions of the type we see in the OT prophets. These actions in some way “made” the meaning of the act come into the experience of those […]
Homosexuality: A Useful Pro-Gay Resource
[This website is committed to presenting most/all sides of an issue for informed reflection/dabate]. See http://www.northaven.org/Book/Introduction.html
Baptists And Liberalism
ANALYSIS Texas committee embraces profs who doubt By Russell D. Moore LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Few Texas Baptist churches would embrace the notion that faith in Christ is not necessary for salvation. Or that the Bible contains errors. Nonetheless, the newly released Baptist General Convention of Texas Seminary Study Committee Report points to scholars who hold to […]
Growing Knowledge
Christian Quotation of the Day November 8, 2000 Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to be forgotten. To Homer, the dawn was “rosy-fingered”; to Shakespeare, it was “in russet mantle clad”; to Housman, “the ship of sunrise burning”. The scientist can explain exactly why […]
Doctrine And Relationship
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship — and not as ends in themselves. … Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984), letter
God’s Kindness Precedes Your Repentance
Religion in Daily Life By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church Written 10 August 2000 “Pennsylvania Bishop Charles E. Bennison was denied Holy Communion at two services he attended last Sunday (August 6, 2000) at St. John’s Church, Huntingdon Valley, an evangelical parish outside Philadelphia.” These are the opening words of an […]
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