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January 06 2009 By virtueonline Anglican Parishes Lose in California...Lawsuit Costs to Rise in TEC in 2009

The indispensable sign of the New Birth. At one of his weekly tea-parties somebody asked Simeon:(1) 'What, Sir, do you consider the principal mark of regeneration?' It was a probing question. With the current popularity of the 'born-again movement', one wonders how the average evangelical believer would reply today. This was Simeon's answer: 'the very first and indispensable sign is self-loathing and abhorrence. Nothing short of this can be admitted as an evidence of a real change ...

December 30 2008 By virtueonline Episcopal Parishes Face Red Ink...Black Leader Rips Episcopal Lesbian Leader

Christian Assurance. The promise of victory. Romans 8 contains five convictions about God's providence (verse 28), five affirmations about his purpose (29, 30) and five questions about his love (31-39), which together bring us fifteen assurances about him. We urgently need them today, since nothing seems stable in our world any longer. Insecurity is written across all human experience.

December 22 2008 By virtueonline VA Diocese Loses on Property Appeal..Rick Warren Blasted by TEC Bishops...More

For 5,000 years, every culture and every religion -- not just Christianity -- has defined marriage as a contract between men and women. There is no reason to change the universal, historical definition of marriage to appease 2 percent of our population." - Rick Warren, Saddleback Pastor and author

December 17 2008 By virtueonline Skeleton Dioceses Reconstitute...PB Pleads for Funds to Sue Dioceses

A hearty appetite. There is perhaps no greater secret of progress in Christian living than in healthy, hearty spiritual appetite. Again and again Scripture addresses its promises to the hungry. God 'satisfied him who is thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things' (Ps. 107:9). If we are conscious of slow growth, is the reason that we have a jaded appetite? It is not enough to mourn over past sin; we must also hunger for future righteousness.

December 10 2008 By virtueonline ASA Figures Show TEC in Massive Decline...LA Diocese Says Yes to Gay Bishops

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December 06 2008 By virtueonline ALTERNATIVE ANGLICAN PROVINCE FORMED IN NORTH AMERICA

Some 700 churches with 100,000 members now plan a major outreach to the U.S.'s more than 130 million unchurched Americans free of the liberalism and gospel-denying denomination they have left behind.

Their hope now is that this new entity will be recognized as a legitimate province of the Anglican Communion.

November 27 2008 By virtueonline Anglican Leaders Plot to Throw Out Southern Cone - Dioceses Feel Financial Pain

Theological liberalism is a cancer. It is "respectable unbelief." It is the hiss of the serpent in the Garden asking "Hath God said...?" It arises from within an ecclesiastical body, pretends to be a legitimate part of that body, and then feeds off of the resources of that body until it has grown strong enough to kill its host.---Rev Brian Carpenter, Presbyterian Church in America

November 23 2008 By virtueonline Mixed Reaction to New Province-Schori Inhibits Iker-Two Dioceses Push Gay Rights

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11/22/2008

Before this year ends, history will be made in North American Anglicanism.

November 17 2008 By virtueonline Ft. Worth Diocese Walks...Four California Episcopal Bishops Blast Prop 8...More

United to Christ. When we become united to Christ by faith, something so tremendous happens that the New Testament cannot find language adequate to describe it. It is a new birth, yes, but also a new creation, a resurrection, light out of darkness, and life from the dead. We were slaves, now we are sons. We were lost, now we have come home. We were condemned and under the wrath of God, now we have been justified and adopted into his family.

November 10 2008 By virtueonline Quincy Leaves TEC..Passage of Proposition 8 Angers CA Bishops.TEC Legal Fees $2m

Memory is a precious and blessed gift. Nothing can stab the conscience so wide awake as memories of the past. The shortest road to repentance is remembrance. Let someone once recall what they used to be and reflect on what by God's grace they could be, and they will be led to repent, turning back from their sin to their Saviour. --- From "What Christ Thinks of the Church" John R.W. Stott.

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