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post a comment | posted Oct 1

Originally posted at internetmonk.com

Here's a great quote from a World Council of Churches statement in 2006.
"Each church is the church catholic and not simply a part of it. Each church is the church catholic, but not the whole of it. Each church fulfills its catholicity when it is ...

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Internet Monk Radio Podcast #73

post a comment | posted Sep 29

Originally posted at internetmonk.com

Featuring cuts from "Ghosts and Spirits," the new project from Phil Woodward. This CD is a musical adaptation of C.S.Lewis's The Great Divorce.
Lectionary preaching podcasts, Goings on around IM this week, "Modesty" in I Timothy.

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Coffee Cup Apologetics 22

post a comment | posted Sep 28

Originally posted at internetmonk.com

"Lessons from Mere Christianity 43 The fourth podcast examining Lewis's apologetic approach in this classic book. I discuss Lewis's way of talking about Jesus.
Coffee Cup Apologetics now has its own website: ccapologetics.wordpress.com
All the epis...

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Great Lectionary Preaching

post a comment | posted Sep 27

Originally posted at internetmonk.com

I'm absolutely enthused over two sermon podcasts I've been listening to for several weeks. Both are examples of Anglican/Episcopal Churches that are standing for historic orthodoxy, but also embodying the Gospel in relevant, lively, ground-level Ch...

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Dumb Up, Brother: A Spirituality of Ignorance

post a comment | posted Sep 27

Originally posted at internetmonk.com

Somewhere in the backlogs of this web site I recounted what it was like being on staff at a church full of seminary students. Everyone knew so much that we had real difficulty doing anything- like buying stamps- without endless debate.
Of course, t...

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What Belongs to All of Us (3)

post a comment | posted Sep 26

Originally posted at internetmonk.com

"What Belongs to All of Us" is exactly what it says.
Colossians 1:12 ...giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to ...

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A Better Writer Gets A Turn

post a comment | posted Sep 26

Originally posted at internetmonk.com

UPDATE II: Ok. Plunge on ahead.
UPDATE: A number of memorable comments have appeared today, but none more entertaining than this one.
Really, it would be best to stop blogging. It's the end of the road. Decision time. Carl's devastating "fisk" has ...

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What Belongs to All of Us (2)

post a comment | posted Sep 25

Originally posted at internetmonk.com


Isaiah 40:25 To whom then will you compare me,
that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high and see:
who created these?
He who brings out their host by number,
calling them all by name,
by the greatness of...

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What Belongs to All of Us (1)

post a comment | posted Sep 24

Originally posted at internetmonk.com

These posts will celebrate the Bible's descriptions of what belongs to ALL Christians. Christian unity cannot be found in continually debating our differences, but in acknowledging what we all possess through union with Jesus Christ.
Galatians. 3:2...

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Abandoning the "Invisible Lifeline"

post a comment | posted Sep 24

Originally posted at internetmonk.com

"If you're not 100% sure that you are saved...if you are 99% sure, but have even 1% of doubt, then I want you to come forward this morning and repent. You need to rededicate your life to Christ." -Closing words of a recent sermon by a well-known So...

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