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March 18 2024 By dvirtue I Believe in the Death of Julius Caesar and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

1. Distinguish Two Methods

The scientific method records observations, forms hypotheses, makes predictions, conducts repeatable experiments, and analyzes results. But countless unrepeatable facts can't be discovered with the scientific method.

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March 03 2024 By dvirtue Unpacking "No Creed but the Bible"

Before offering some criticism of how the principle of "no creed but the Bible" is sometimes used, it is first useful to understand what important truth those who use it are rightly trying to protect. That truth is the unique authority and sufficiency of the Bible as the source and criterion for Christian doctrine.

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March 02 2024 By dvirtue "Give me Law and Gospel, but please never give me Law without the Gospel" -- Chuck Collins

I suppose I need more Law (because the law is holy, righteous, and good - Romans 7:12), so go ahead and throw more dirt on my coffin. But don't forget to tell be about God who came to resurrect dead people! Hearing Law without Gospel is like an all-decalogue liturgy with no absolution - no creed; it is hearing a coach instead of a preacher; it is bad news upon bad news for my already weary soul. This cruelty happens every Sunday all across America, including Alaska and Hawaii!

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February 26 2024 By dvirtue IT'S ALL ABOUT GOD NOT YOU

I have been a Christian for a ridiculous and embarrassing number of years for the beggarly condition of my spiritual life today. This sounds like false humility, but it's a fact. If only I had prayed more, and been more faithful to read the Bible, memorize more Scripture, read a Psalm-a-day like my friend Mary, contemplate the sacraments more deeply, helped the poor and shared my faith more like my other friend Mary, I would be much, much farther down the road.

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February 19 2024 By dvirtue NO REGRETS...REALLY!

For more years than I care to think I preached get-better messages. I cringe thinking about my old sermons. I regret the lost opportunities of those messages that pounded home the idea that we just need to try harder, pray and give more, read the Bible every day, attend church every week, and be nicer. It was Pharisaism under the guise of Christianity - "an easy-listening version of salvation by self-help" (Michael Horton).

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February 16 2024 By dvirtue ASH WEDNESDAY SHOULD LEAD US FROM GUILT TO GRACE TO GRATITUDE

And for heaven's sake, we should not praise God too much in this season! Even though praise and thanksgiving fill every corner of heaven, an activity by which we participate here on earth with choirs of angels and archangels, and even though "Alleluia" and singing God's praises is the way Christians over the centuries have lifted themselves from themselves to God into the heavenly places, we should bury the practice of Alleluias and set up liturgical guards to keep us from thanksgiving.

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February 14 2024 By dvirtue SOLA SCRIPTURA IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

Dr. Null: I think you've given me ten questions. To start off, what does sola scriptura mean in the 16th century?

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February 07 2024 By dvirtue THE DANIEL DECLARATION

For this reason, the Board of Trustees of the American Anglican Council has approved a restatement of our faith for the times we live in, The Daniel Declaration: A Call to Mission, A Place to Stand. You will find the entire text of the Daniel Declaration below, and we encourage you to read the whole statement and its Implications for Contemporary Issues.

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February 07 2024 By dvirtue SIR THOMAS MORE: Statesman or Religious Fanatic?

More worked his way up to become the Lord Chancellor of England, and King Henry's father-figure, secretary, and advisor. He was a celebrated lawyer, philosopher (author of Utopia), statesman, and well respected Renaissance humanist who was personal friends with Erasmus. But the Reformation train was moving too fast to be stopped, and England was changing.

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February 06 2024 By dvirtue THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN AND THE ANGLICAN-EPISCOPAL EXPERIENCE: THE ROAD TO SCHISM

[The ordination of women to the priesthood] was a tragic decision for our church. . . there has been one conflict after another...unfortunately the bishops have been for it, this is an ultra liberal body... I can't tell you what a mess it is.

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