Ezekiel 13:10--16 Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, 'Peace,' when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash, say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out.
Read moreShould Reform be calling it a day? I would respectfully suggest not.
When Reform was founded in 1993 because of the Church of England General Synod's decision to ordain women to the presbyterate in 1992, its founding fathers wanted to establish a network of local churches and ministers that would work together for evangelism through the local church and contend for biblical truth in a denomination that they believed was beginning to incarnate unbiblical innovations.
Read moreThe different groups splintered over different emphases and over their individual stance on women's ordination.
Dr Gatiss hailed the change as the 'biggest thing to happen in the Anglican evangelical world here [in the UK] for 25 years' as he celebrated the coming together.
Read moreElectronic links for these can be found here
http://churchsociety.org/docs/applications/church_society_membership_form_2018.pdf
http://churchsociety.org/docs/about_us/cs_conference_form_2018.pdf
Read moreJayne Ozanne illustrates this well.
Read moreMr Juckes served in a parish on the outskirts of Hull in the north of England for 19 years and served on the Oak Hill council for 18 years. According to informed sources, he was an outstanding parish minister applying evangelical principles in a manner that, under God, enabled the local church of St Andrew's Kirk Ella to grow numerically and in Christian commitment.
Read moreThe revelation comes as the CofE's general synod, or parliament, meets in Westminster for three days that are set to be dominated by questions around abuse.
Read moreBut Christian Today revealed on January 25 that the House of Bishops had not in fact discussed or debated the matter. Instead the decision had been made by just nine bishops on a newly formed sub-committee called the Delegation Committee. It was taken with a number of other decisions which were rubber-stamped by the whole House of Bishops without debate.
Read moreConcurrent with this planned debate have been discussions between members of the General Synod of the best way of proceeding in light of Lord Carlile's serious criticisms, with the certainty of posing a few pointed questions as they gather next month, and the possibility of a highly critical Private Member's Motion.
As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared...
There is nothing suspicious about the timing of these announcements at all.
Nothing at all.
Read moreSo why is Archbishop Justin, who like Uriah Heep has been 'very umble to the present moment', refusing to apologise for defaming the reputation of Bishop George Bell? Why has 'Wobbly' hardened his heart like Pharaoh in the story of the Exodus even after seven senior historians wrote an open letter complaining that the archbishop had shamed his office with 'irresponsible and dangerous' claims that Bishop Bell may have been a paedophile?
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