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• Applying Ancient Christian Literature To Modern ‘Evangelists’

  
  Dr Jim West — Authority: 632
  Reading The Didache, one comes away with the impression, doesn’t one, that the likes of Todd Bentley and Bishop Brian Tamaki, and Joel Osteen and Benny Hinn would come off transparently to the early Church what they are to intelligent people these days- false prophets. Didache 11 – Concerning the Apostles and ...
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• Miami’s black Episcopal churches recall segregation

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  During the discussion, panelists recounted how the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Miami would outcast black Episcopalians. ``I remember when we couldnt walk by Trinity church, said Gay Outler, referring to the then all-white Episcopal cathedral. Outler, chair of the anti-racism commission said the oral ...
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• JANEK LEJA, Grodzisko, Poland, 1918 — Victoria, Canada, 2009: In Memoriam

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 127
  The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork Psalm 19   Janek Leja was born in Grodzisko, Poland, in 1918. He was raised by his uncle and was at university when WW2 began. After his release from imprisonment in Siberia, he served in the Polish Forces in the Middle East and in ...
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• SAINT STANISLAUS KOTSKA: JESUIT novice who died at seventeen, is a patron of POLAND, 1568

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 127
  1568                                                                                                                [S. J.] St. Stanislaus Kotska , who died at seventeen after nine months as a Jesuit novice and is now a patron of Poland . Second son of a ...
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• Back to the basic principles and doctrines of the gospel

  
  The Millennial Star — Authority: 428
  There is a change in what we will be studying in Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society on the 2nd and 3rd Sundays of the month. We have been studying the Teachings of the Presidents of the Church. That began in 1998. We have used that series for the past 11 years. Those are wonderful books [...]
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• Happy Birthday St Augustine

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 548
  Today is St Augustine’s birthday (345 AD). In that connection I should mention the upcoming publication of Simonetta Carr’s biography of Augustine for children. Few figures in Western history are as important as Augustine. He is one of the early church fathers to whom the Reformers rightly looked as an inspiration ...
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• SAINT THEODORE “the Studite,” great Byzantine Abbot Doctor: ‘St. Theodore’s body was brought back to Constantinople in great triumph as champion of the holy images,’ 826

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 127
  ‘WE REVERENCE THE HOLY IMAGE, O BLESSED ONE. . . ‘   826 Saint Theodore called “ the Studite” after Studios , Constantinople’s leading monastery, which he revived, populated with over 700 monks, and launched on its period of maximum influence in studies, culture, and Church affairs. As the formost ...
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• Credo-Baptism During the Reformation

  
  Reformed Forum — Authority: 520
  When approaching the question of credo-baptism during the Reformation, James Dolezal argues for viewing three distinct categories: Anabaptists, general baptists, and particular baptists.  The theological differences between these groups are as great as the differences among all forms of paedo-baptism.  As such, it ...
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• Charles Simeon—Evangelical Mentor and Model

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  When Simeon moved to put benches in the aisles, the church wardens threw them out. He battled with discouragement and at one point wrote out his resignation. "When I was an object of much contempt and derision in the university," he later wrote, "I strolled forth one day, buffeted and afflicted, with my little ...
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• John Piper on Charles Simeon: We Must Not Mind a Little Suffering

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  He grew downward in humiliation before God, and he grew upward in his adoration of Christ. Handley Moule captures the essence of Simeons secret of longevity in this sentence: "Before honor is humility, and he had been growing downwards year by year under the stern discipline of difficulty met in the right way, the ...
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• The Pope on Medieval Monasticism

  
  haligweorc — Authority: 122
  I could swear that Pope Benedict has been re-reading Leclercq’s Love of Learning and Desire for God . A few weeks ago he talked about the Monastic/Scholastic distinction along similar lines as Leclercq; last week he compared and contrasted St Bernard with Abelard . Yesterday, his talk was on the glory that ...
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• Charles Simeon Day

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  O loving God, who orderest all things by thine unerring wisdom and unbounded love: Grant us in all things to see thy hand; that, following the example and teaching of thy servant Charles Simeon, we may walk with Christ in all simplicity, and serve thee with a quiet and contented mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord, ...
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• Peter Townley: Forty years in the wilderness in East Germany

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  Although later perceived as a “church in socialism”, it was a Church in opposition which understood itself as a fellowship of the Crucified, thus echoing Bonhoeffer’s words in The Cost of Discipleship: “Every call of Christ leads to death.” A key text for them was Bonhoeffer’s influential book Life ...
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• The Jolly Calvin You’ve Never Heard of…

  
  Dr Jim West — Authority: 632
  ”Auch ist es nirgendwo untersagt, zu lachen, sich am Klang der Musik zu freuen oder Wein zu trinken” — John Calvin Read the whole essay by that brilliant Calvin scholar Matthias Freudenberg and meet the Calvin you never knew existed. Posted in Calvin, Church History
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• Charles Spurgeon – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 145
  There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. . . . No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God. . . . But ...
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• Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Viola and Barna Exegetical Practices

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 545
  After six posts from Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Practices , I think we need to Explore the Roots of Viola and Barna Exegetical Practices. 1. The Roots.   NOT LONG AFTER I LEFT the institutional church to begin gathering with Christians in New Testament fashion, I sought to understand how ...
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• A Little History: Hasten the End, The Apocalypse Now!

  
  West Coast Catholic — Authority: 132
  Very Interesting... Hasten the End - Apocalypse Now Whenever I lead a trip to the Holy Land , the question inevitably comes, “Will we visit Armageddon?’ This refers, of course, to the battlefield surrounding the ancient city of Megiddo where some think the final confrontation will take place ...
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• How God’s Gospel Went Global – An overview of Acts

  
  Quaerentia — Authority: 106
  Every summer, we have an All Souls week away called Cornerstone. Each year we seek to get our heads round one particular book, and this year’s focus was the Book of Acts. This is how I broke it up (and gave it cringingly contrived alliterative headings) : Acts 1: Mission Momentum Acts 2-6: Bound ...
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• Great Awakening: Is a new one taking place outside the West?

  
  Sola Dei Gloria — Authority: 541
  If true, this should bring us great joy folks! ….as well, we should seek the answer to “why not here?” Some observers assert a socially transforming spiritual movement is sweeping the globe, resulting in 82,000 conversions to Christianity a day. But only 6,000 of them are in Europe and North America. ...
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• Consequences of Resurgent Calvinism

  
  2 Worlds Collide — Authority: 416
  A few weeks ago Dr. Fisher Humphreys wrote an article for Associated Baptist Press entitled, “Are there consequences of resurgent Baptist Calvinism?”  It was one of four essays written by Baptist historians dealing with the theme, “History Speaks to Hard Questions Baptists Ask.”  The essays were reprinted ...
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