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April 19 2019 By dvirtue Lambeth Leaders Crow over initial 2020 attendance * Parishioners win legal case in St. Paul's Darien run-in with bishop * GAFCON chmn blasts Welby as he leaves chairmanship * ACNA Releases texts for BCP 2019 * Arctic Bp Heads to Irish Parish * ACoC News

The cross and justification. If God justifies sinners freely by his grace, on what ground does he do so? How is it possible for the righteous God to declare the unrighteous to be righteous without either compromising his righteousness or condoning their unrighteousness? That is our question. God's answer is the cross. --- John R. W. Stott

April 04 2019 By dvirtue Kent University Okays Homosexual Spouses * Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans to Plant GAFCON flag in NZ * ABC backs State Enforced LGBT Relationships & Sex Ed. * Albany Bishop at odds with TEC over Abortion * D.of VT has lesbian priest in mix for bishop

"Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him.

March 23 2019 By dvirtue Lambeth Conference Grows more Strident * Persecution not only against Muslims in NZ, but by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria * TEC Bishops hear call to Evangelize * Full Communion between Methodists and Episcopalians in Jeopardy * CofE Faces Oblivion

Once you have abandoned the principle that homosexual intercourse and transgenderism are immoral acts unworthy of federal protection and expansion, you have no case for maintaining a permanent religious exemption for your bigotry. --- Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D.

March 08 2019 By dvirtue United Methodists Nix Homosexual Marriage * Welby Mounts High-Level Campaign to Induce Orthodox Bishops to come to Lambeth 2020 * UK and US Bishops Blast Welby and Fearon over failed invitations for Same-Sex Spouses * Resolution 1:10 already violated

Empty religion. We need to listen again to the biblical criticism of religion. No book, not even by Marx and his followers, is more scathing of empty religion than the Bible. The prophets of the eighth and seventh centuries BC were outspoken in their denunciation of the formalism and hypocrisy of Israelite worship. Jesus then applied their critique to the Pharisees of his day: 'These people ... honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me' (Is. 29:13; Mk. 7:6).

February 23 2019 By dvirtue Anglican Communion Erupts over Welby's Refusal to Allow Same-Sex Partners of Bishops to attend Lambeth 2020 * Welby and Okoh line up Bishops for & against 2020 * Homosexuals and Women now Dominate in TEC * Diocese of Maine Appoints First Homosexual Bishop

Intersectionality and identity politics breed division. These ideologies atomize society and drive humanity away from its core and essential commonality. This is where Christians must counter with the gospel of Jesus Christ and the authority of Scripture. Only the gospel secures peace and establishes truth. Only the gospel will unite a fractured society. Only the gospel can stem the tide of modernity's downward spiral into chaos and decay. Identity politics is bad enough in the culture.

February 08 2019 By dvirtue Theologians Challenge B012 * Two State Abortion Laws Rock Christians, TEC Affirms Woman's Right * Heather Cook tries again to get out of Jail * Court Reaffirms LA Bishop's Suspension * Florida Bishop under Fire over B012 Implementation * More

"How can we speak of the termination of a pregnancy when what we really mean is the destruction of a human life? How can we talk of therapeutic abortion when pregnancy is not a disease needing therapy and what abortion effects is not a cure but a killing? How can we talk of abortion as a kind of retroactive contraception when what it does is not prevent conception but destroy the conceptus? We need to have the courage to use accurate language.

January 25 2019 By dvirtue Trust in US Clergy Declines, says Poll * Nigerian APB to consecrate 4 Bishops in NA * 24 homosexual couples tie knot in Diocese of Dallas * Churches pull out of CofE and SEC * ACNA Approves Prayer Book, punts on WO * Welby speaks in "tongues"

On Fr. John Shepherd's statement about the resurrection: "The most deceptive comment is here: "I have never denied the reality of the empty tomb." Sounds orthodox. But note the negative formulation: "I have never denied..." Secondly, there are several theories which could include the Empty Tomb and no bodily resurrection. E.g., wrong tomb! Or "someone stole the body. Or simply, "I don't know, but bodies rising from the dead defies the laws of physics (h.t. to Rudolf Bultmann).

January 11 2019 By dvirtue Oxford Diocese Faces Meltdown over Homosexual Marriage * Evangelicals Push Back * Pro-Homosexual Anglican Cleric Appointed to Holy See in Rome * Homosexual Marriage all but assured in TEC. Diocese of Albany holdout * ACoC Okays Assisted Suicide

"Hell is truth known too late." ― J.C. Ryle, Practical Religion

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January 11, 2019

THE OXFORD DIOCESE in the Church of England faced a meltdown this week when a large number of clergy rejected Bishop Steven Croft's views on human sexuality, specifically homosexual marriage.

As a result, the diocese faces an uncertain future.

December 29 2018 By dvirtue ACNA reports 1,000 churches in 10 years * Church of England okays baptism liturgy for Transgendered persons * ACNA advances in Mexico * NAE Compromises on Religious Freedom * Mississippi Bishop okays homosexual “marriage” * What is Anglicanism Conference

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the end all this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions. ---J. C. Ryle

December 15 2018 By dvirtue African-American Episcopal Church Closes * Transgender Issue puts CofE in Quandary * GAFCON UK discusses plans for Future Growth * Diocese of South Carolina News * TEC lifts Statute of Limitations for clergy sexual misconduct * Indian Moderator Jailed

"Not everyone who says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out demons? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I say unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity." --- Mt. 7:21-23.

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