A reaffirmation of Anglican identity

… and I love the idea of a new Anglican “See” in Jerusalem.
From GAFCON.
We, the participants in the Global Anglican Future Conference, have met in the land of Jesus’ birth. We express our loyalty as disciples to the King of kings, the Lord Jesus. We joyfully embrace his command to proclaim the reality of his [...]

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Being reckoned circumcision

I remember reading a while ago a blog post by Michael Bird that suggested that a lot of Paul’s discussion of justification works more a long the lines of “Who are the people of God and in what economy will they be vindicated by God?”
This is something I found interesting but really had forgotten about. [...]

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“eternity is where You stand”

Lets take a “wee” break from Augustine, catholicity, sacraments and so on. One of my favorite christian bands, the little-known Foolish Things is dis-banding after may 11th. So here’s a small example of their music. Mostly great lyrics, and an original sound (certainly better than most christian bands out there).

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Motivations for prayer

David Field and reasons for prayer, here. Maybe we could all take up the task of personally adding to his list, and actually get down to praying?

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There is a better King…

…than this one, no doubt.

(“king” Sam, at All Saints “Bible Holiday Club” for kids…)
Happy easter!

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Pow’r of the Cross

A “wee” video for Good Friday, uploaded on Maundy Thursday.

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I was officially “comissioned”

On sunday I was officially “comissioned” as a Student Worker at All Saints Church. I responded to a series of questions, including my trust in Jesus and the care of those entrusted to me by Bryan (the pastor), with a “I do” or “with God’s help, I will”.
Then the church warden read out the passages [...]

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Relevant Liturgy

Interesting article on Liturgy at “Relevant magazine”. Here I´ll reproduce what I believe is the best paragraph:
“…when unchurched people come to a church service, they are probably expecting it to be a new, strange experience for them. Somehow the Church has these seekers coming to their service in the first place, so is it really [...]

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Guiding Principle of the English Reformation (again)

Fr. Peter continues to blog on this subject here and here. See Part 1 here.

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Away

Hello all. I’ll (Sam) be away for the weekend, so there won’t be new posts (from me at least) ’till after monday. Feel free, of course, to snoop around and check out other posts.

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