If you’re one of those people with a nagging feeling that you should know more about the Bible than you do — or even if you can recite chapter and verse (but don’t know that those chapters and verses come from a 13th century archbishop of Canterbury and a 16th century Parisian, respectively) — then these five basic things will catapult you to a new level of biblical literacy.
Don’t lose authenticity in an attempt to be strategic . . .Communicate who you are and not who you want to be and in doing so your story will easily convince everyone that we all need Jesus.
If you want to maintain the status quo at your church in the coming decades, one of three changes will have to occur…
“Japanese are not religious in the way that people in North America are religious,” . . . “They’ll move back and forth between two or more religious traditions, seeing them as tools that are appropriate for certain situations.”
To Ramsey, following in the footsteps of Richard Hooker and most Anglican Divines, Anglican Theology is a tool. It is a tool that is intended to bring us into deeper relationship with God and with our neighbor. It is meant to facilitate right praise, prayer, thanksgiving, and service.
Both clergy and laity (the latter overwhelmingly) rejected the Covenant at the Wakefield Diocesan Synod meeting on Saturday 12th March.
Qumar David, 50, died of a heart attack on Tuesday in Karachi Central Jail after complaining of chest pain.
The first great principle of temptation I shall note, is a general mistake, which excuses very many of our crimes upon pretence of infirmity, calling all those sins to which by natural disposition we are inclined (though by carelessness and evil customs they are heightened to a habit) by the name of sins of infirmity;