The chancellors yesterday met with the former first lady, Xiomara Castro, with the former cabinet of Manuel Zelaya, with deputies who did not support the Zelaya’s ouster, and members of the national resistance.In the evening the delegates listened to leaders of business organizations, nongovernmental organizations, anti-corruption advocates, the Democratic Civic Union and the National Congress. Later at night they met with authorities of the Judicial Power, Public Ministry, Electoral Supreme C
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OAS Busy with Meetings in Honduras
A few people have said to me that they are not in favour of The Crowded House model of church- in fact it is difficult to speak of THE model…What I observed was at least 3 differing models, at work. What holds them together is an agreement to and congruency with the TCH values. In one sense it does not matter what structure the church or gospel community takes as long as they are working out the values in their community or context.So what is it that determines structure if it is not any prior
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The Crowded House Reflections 6: Differences in structure
Proverbs 9.1-6; Ephesians 5.15-20; John 6.51-58 The Rev’d Sarah Hillman The Bible is very clear about what it means to be wise. Our reading from Ephesians reminds us of this: “Do not be foolish but understand what the will of the Lord is.” Christians are reminded that we should live as wise people not unwise ones. In the context of this letter, understanding the will of the Lord requires living it out as well; one cannot fully understand God’s wisdom unless one is prepared to follow his wil
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Sermon Barkway & Reed 16th August 2009 – Trinity 10
-urges streets to be renamed to honour sporting heroes After tremendous sporting exploits by Guyanese athletes in the country’s colonial past, notable cricket broadcaster Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira is peeved that much has not been done to preserve and educate today’s generation about Guyana’s golden age of sporting glory.
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‘Reds’ Perreira urges greater awareness of Guyana’s ‘golden age’ in sports
Continued from Objection to Biblical Inerrancy #11 A final objection is that inerrancy is “ a pre-critical, pre-scientific idea .” That is an arrogant position, and assumes that no one who went before us was able to have as deep and profound a thought about the Scripture’s nature as we have. Assuming we are more intelligent than two millennia of Christian thinkers is a product of evolutionary psychology. For example in just the area of the Trinity, we have writings of profound thinking in the early church
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Objection to Biblical Inerrancy #12
One of the most important aspects of our faith is growth – ours is not a stagnant condition but a process of continual learning. There is always more to know about God. There is always just a bit closer we can step toward Jesus. Our lives can always be a little more Christlike. This Sunday we will celebrate some of the youngest members of the church family and the teachers who lead them along the first steps of their faith journey. At the 8:20 worship service, we will honor the children’s
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Pastor’s Note – 8-24-09
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In literature, there is a concept known as a “suspension of disbelief” where you are mentally are willing to belief in the unbelievable. This then allows the story to make sense, despite the fact that chipmunks don’t sing and different worlds don’t exist deep inside your wardrobe.Since coming to England for my postgraduate, theological studies, I have come to the realisation that there needs to be a “suspension of belief” — that, in my writing, I cannot appeal to my biblical or doctrinal convic
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Academia and the “Suspension of Belief”
Often in blogs like this, we stress fidelity to the biblical text, and how to get to the essence of a text. But in reality, that is only 50% (at most) of the work of the sermon. One huge element is the “illumination and application” of the text to our lives today. That is often (although not always done through sermon illustrations). I am aware of those who eschew all sermon books and resources, and there are pretty good reasons for doing so. They are often hackneyed, trite and over
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How Do You File Sermon Illustrations?
August 24th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet BoxToday, Rev. Gerald Kieschnick, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, released the following statementAugust 24, 2009Statement of the president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in response to certain actions of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in AmericaThe two largest Lutheran
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Statement by LCMS President Regarding ELCA Actions