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July 27 2007 By virtueonline Anglicans Not in the Anglican Communion

Anglican Catholic Church. 'We affirm that the Church of our fathers, sustained by the most Holy Trinity, lives yet, and that we, being moved by the Holy Spirit to walk only in that way, are determined to continue in the Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship and Evangelical Witness of the traditional Anglican Church, doing all things necessary for the continuance of the same.' (From the Affirmation of St Louis)

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July 26 2007 By virtueonline FOLLOWING CHRIST THE LORD IN COMMUNION, COVENANT & MISSION

We need to remind ourselves that the Bible does not view mission and evangelism merely as a good idea or something to be done when people feel like it! The Bible talks of God as a mission God; his acts are saving acts in history, carried out with speed and diligence, and using men and women to accomplish his purposes. Biblical mission moves people to act with a high sense of urgency, faithfulness, zeal and passion for the salvation of souls.

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July 16 2007 By virtueonline The Church is an organic union of divine and human aspects, argues Professor

First, St Paul applied the organic model not only to a cosmic context, but also to the co-operation of different talents in the day-to-day practical life of the Church.

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July 16 2007 By virtueonline The Common Cause of a Common Light

Is this shift of energies positive? As a founding member of the Network, I would urge more open discussion about this. Indeed, it is a discussion that has not taken place in any organized, illuminated, and Communion-wide basis, and it needs to, quickly and honestly and without rancor. Obviously, the topic has long been a staple of blog debate. But however informative such debate can be, it is not a substitute for common prayer, discussion, and discernment as a Body in the Lord.

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July 12 2007 By virtueonline International Anglican Consultation Theme: Following Christ...Covenant & Mission

Delegates were assigned to one of these two 'tracks' but came together for two daily plenary sessions where both issues were aired and discussed. Delegates took part in daily worship, prayer and Bible study and worked in small groups. The interplay between these two themes proved very important.

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July 11 2007 By virtueonline The Anglican Covenant: Background and Resources

The Reception Process

As part of the Windsor Reception Process the Primates' Standing Committee asked "How would you evaluate the arguments for an Anglican Covenant set out in paragraph 119 of the Report? How far do the elements included in the possible draft for such a covenant in Appendix Two of the Report represent an appropriate development of the existing life of the Anglican Communion?"

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July 11 2007 By virtueonline LONDON: Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament

Searching for Babylonian financial accounts among the tablets, Prof Jursa suddenly came across a name he half remembered - Nabu-sharrussu-ukin, described there in a hand 2,500 years old, as "the chief eunuch" of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon.

Prof Jursa, an Assyriologist, checked the Old Testament and there in chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah, he found, spelled differently, the same name - Nebo-Sarsekim.

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July 07 2007 By virtueonline Penal Substitution Revisited - J. I. Packer

An evangelical theologian, dying, cabled a colleague: 'I am so thankful for the active obedience (righteousness) of Christ. No hope without it.' As I grow old, I want to tell everyone who will listen: 'I am so thankful for the penal substitutionary death of Christ. No hope without it.' That is where I come from now as I attempt this brief vindication of the best part of the best news that the world has ever heard.

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June 19 2007 By virtueonline Papers Show Isaac Newton's Religious Side, Predict Date of Apocalypse

The documents, purchased by a Jewish scholar at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1936, have been kept in safes at Israel's national library in Jerusalem since 1969. Available for decades only to a small number of scholars, they have never before been shown to the public.

In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060.

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