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• Great Awakening: Is a new one taking place outside the West?

  
  Sola Dei Gloria — Authority: 525
  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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• If Chrysostom was performing an exorcism, hed probably say this...

  
  Christians in Context: from orthodoxy to orthopraxy. — Authority: 124
  Yes, I really was asked to come to a hospital room the other day to cast out a demon. It was a six-year old girl; I wont repeat the things she was saying, but they were things six-year old girls dont say, and it took both her father and mother to hold her still. Needless to say, it was a first for me. When I recounted ...
  9 hours ago

• Haeres Petri – Leo the Great and Authority

  
  Catholic Sensibility — Authority: 134
  (This is Neil) Today is the feast day of St Leo the Great, pope. Thus, it would seem to be a good idea to consider some of his writings. Here, I would like to do so very briefly with the aid of an article in last year’s International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church by Douglas Powell. (The article ...
  15 hours ago

• Jim Domm on the Regulative Principle of Worship

  
  Reformed Baptist Blog — Authority: 117
  Earlier today an excellent article on the regulative principle of worship was posted on the RBS Tabletalk blog. The article was written by Jim Domm, who is Pastor of Englewood Baptist Church in Englewood, New Jersey, and an M.Div. Student at the  Reformed Baptist Seminary . The article is entitled The ...
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• Saint Leo the Great, Pope, Doctor

  
  Bryan Sherwood — Authority: 116
  Almighty God, you have surrounded us with a great cloud of witnesses: Grant that we, encouraged by the good example of your servant Saint Leo , may persevere in running the race that is set before us, until at last we may with him attain to your eternal joy; through Jesus Christ, the pioneer and perfecter of our ...
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• Points of divergence

  
  The Upward Call — Authority: 518
  While Martin Luther is seen as the first catalyst that really got the Reformation going, there was another individual whose parallel experiences eventually would mark a point of divergence in the Reformation. That man was Ulrich Zwingli, who came from Switzerland.Zwingli was born in the same year as Martin Luther, ...
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• Faith and the Future 3 (RJS)

  
  Jesus Creed — Authority: 628
  The central portion of Harvey Coxs new book The Future of Faith lays out the New Perspective on The Church - which is no longer new. It is broad brush summarized as follows: Jesus taught and enacted a kingdom vision. His immediate followers were committed to this vision Pauls disavowal of the necessity to ...
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• Doctrine, the New Covenant and Dispensationalism

  
  Sola Dei Gloria — Authority: 525
  While reading a presentation, A Return to Biblical Theology , concerning Doctrine, the New Covenant and Dispensationalism, I thought there were a few specific sections which someone new to Theology might find of interest. Section 3: Is Dispensational Premillennialism Different from Historic Premillennialism? ...
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• Luther’s Birthday!

  
  Dr Jim West — Authority: 623
  In 1483 Martin Luther , exegete and theologian extraordinaire, was born on the 10th of November. This year in observance, rather than prattle on about his many contributions (and they are MANY!), I thought I’d let him address an issue that currently occupies so many: the issue of homosexuality. What did ...
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• faith...eutrophication, and new maps

  
  the Weary Pilgrim — Authority: 419
  I was reading these quotes from Gandhi in a devotional last night, and I got to think of my own faith journey. Constant development is the law of life, and a manwho always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistentdrives himself into a false position. Faith is not something to grasp, it ...
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• On Michael Cerularius

  
  Eirenikon — Authority: 108
  I am proud to feature this interesting article by Catholic friend of the blog and frequent commenter, Michaël de Verteuil – Of the two Patriarchs of Constantinople most closely associated with the East-West schism, Michael Cerularius (Keroularios) is clearly the lesser figure in Orthodoxy. Unlike Photius, Michael ...
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• Stephen Mansfield: Arthur Guinness got it

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 589
  It is the mid-1760s, and in Dublins grand St. Patricks Cathedral the famed revivalist John Wesley is preaching with all of his might. He is aware that the congregation of St. Patricks is filled with the citys more successful, comfortable, perhaps self-satisfied souls. And so he thunders against their ...
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• A Look Back into LDS Church History

  
  The Millennial Star — Authority: 497
  I will be taking you back into church history.  It will be totally impossible to include everything.  If you would like to add more, please post a comment.  The history is for that week (Sunday through Saturday). A Look Back in Church History for the week of Novermber 8th through the 14, 2009*11/10/1985  Ezra Taft ...
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• The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Fulfillment of Prophecy

  
  Church of God News — Authority: 133
  Angela MerkelCOGwriterGermany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel took part in a celebration today related to the fall of the Berlin Wall:Leaders in Berlin Retrace the Walk WestBy NICHOLAS KULISH and ALAN COWELLPublished: November 9, 2009BERLIN — Flanked by leaders from the former Eastern Bloc in Communism’s last days, ...
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• Guess the Heretic!

  
  Dead Theologians — Authority: 419
  Some Protestants and Catholics misrepresent the doctrine of justification by faith as some entirely novel invention of Martin Luther. This is said by Roman Catholics to imply that no one before him had ever had the audacity or pure evil intentions to declare such a thing. And it is said by some non-Catholics to ...
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• SAINT SISOES: Wise Egyptian desert father, circa 429

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 127
  NOVEMBER 8 ca. 429 St. Sisoes, desert father in Egypt, known for his wisdom and profound sense of the Divine Presence. One day a hermit said to him, “Father, I always place myself in the presence of God. “ It would be much better,” the saint replied, “to put yourself below every creature.”   ...
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• Paul Washer Explains “Shocking Youth Message”

  
  All Things New — Authority: 113
  Not that he needed too (in my opinion), but Paul Washer offers an explanation behind his “Shocking Youth Message.”     In case you’ve never heard the whole sermon I’ll post it here and encourage you to listen to it.
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• A Brief History of the Fellowship of Reconciliation

  
  Levellers — Authority: 415
  In between my posts on a biblical case for Christian pacifism, I am going to write some brief historical sketches of the major grassroots, contemporary peace organizations–with special concentration on religious, especially Christian, organizations and especially those in North America (because I know them best).  ...
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• Anglican Spirituality – an introduction

  
  PATRICK COMERFORD — Authority: 125
  The Canticles, sung by great cathedral choirs, provide the first introduction for many to the riches of Anglican spirituality Patrick Comerford For many people outside the Anglican tradition, Anglican spirituality is experienced in its full splendour when they hear Choral Evensong, and the canticles Magnificat ...
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• Prima Scriptura

  
  Ancient Christian Defender — Authority: 123
  This is Prima Scriptura: (I thought I already had this on my blog, but I couldnt find it when I was looking for it, and so, Im doing it again.) and The Metropolitan Timothy(Kallistos) Ware: Quote Quote: ""Orthodox are always talking about Tradition. What do they mean by the word? A tradition is ...
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