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Redemption through All Creation
In this month’s issue of the magazine Christianity Today there is an article on “Hipster Christianity” that shows how a more historical Christianity is rising within the Evangelical church, the same church that was constructed a few decades ago through the Jesus Movement. In this Jesus Movement the liturgy, … [Read More...]
Confessional Christian(ity)
I am often puzzled and distressed when people question whether I really believe in the substitutionary meaning of Jesus’ death. I would simply say: read my published sermons; read chapter 12 of Jesus and the Victory of God; ask yourself, not whether I go through the hoops of all the words that your tradition has … [Read More...]
Salvation Through Kingdom, Not System
Many Christians recognize John the Baptist as the prophet that once initiated the systematic call to salvation - where a person must be able to recite a prayer, then be baptized...and behold...the person is saved for eternity. But John was not giving a systematic, magic formula which required a person to jump through … [Read More...]
St. John Chrysostom on Economics
"It is not for lack of miracles that the church is stagnant; it is because we have forsaken the angelic life of Pentecost, and fallen back on private property. If we lived as they did, with all things common, we should soon convert the whole world without any need of miracles at all." - St. John Chrysostom This … [Read More...]
On Eternity
This article was written by Peter Chopelas. Read it carefully and honestly! It is really quite an eye opener...Special thanks to my buddy Maximus for sending it to me. The idea that God is an angry figure who sends those He condemns to a place called Hell, where they spend eternity in torment separated from His … [Read More...]
On the 1979 Prayer Book and Rev. Peter Toon
Toon’s Examination In Toon’s book Proclaiming the Liturgy through the Gospel, Toon makes sharp distinctions as to how the more modern Prayer Book such as the ECUSA’s 1979 Rite I and II are nearly heretical. He attacks its production of vital concepts of the Christian faith such as its teaching of Trinitarian … [Read More...]
On the 39 Articles
Here is a review of the 39 Articles of Faith, found in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Many people today believe that the Articles are a set of Reformed/baptistic doctrines, but Cardinal Newman shows otherwise. After reading this you will find that although the Articles use a Reformed type of language they have … [Read More...]
On “Personal Relationship” Theology
Fredrich Scheleirmacher says, "[Protestantism] makes the individual's relation to the Church dependent on his relation to Christ, [while Catholicism] makes the individual's realation to Christ dependent on his relation to the Church." Protestantism makes the individual's relation with the Church dependent on "his … [Read More...]
The Danger of False Humility
In Colossians Chapter 2, St. Paul warns us of those who demonstrate false humility. False humility is the subversive tactic of wolves as they display mere clothing of a shepherd or other type of honest and caring person. It's not always easy to identify and can turn into an extremely arrogant accusation if not carefully … [Read More...]
On Pastors that will not Refute Heresy
"What would you say of a shepherd who, for fear of annoying the sheep, would allow them to walk peacefully beside the wolf?" -- Msgr. Louis Gaston de Segur, 1875 … [Read More...]
Why Anglican?
The Word Manifests both Phonetically and Existentially
Hebrews 13:10 "We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat." After taking this verse into proper context as well as examining the Greek, you will find the meaning of the word "altar" to have a very literal meaning. Anglican churches and those that continue the pre-modern … [Read More...]
So You Say You Are Trinitarian?
"How can any church today claim a connection with the apostolic era when it has remained ignorant of and often rejected in practice the church age which followed the apostles and which was the critical period for the formation of the New Testament, for the propounding for the doctrines of Christ and the Trinity, for … [Read More...]
Become Liberated from Apostasy
This article may help you understand how much of Christendom is in trouble and just how you may be able to help turn it back towards Christ and become blessed and liberated while doing it! A lot of radical over-correction took place in the Middle Ages when many men of the Church finally got their hands on a variety … [Read More...]
America’s Anglican and English Roots
Rev. Richard W. Davies describes the founding of America: In 1603, one of King James I interests was to colonize a new part of the world. The King was encouraged by the Rev. Richard Hakluyt, and priest of the Church of England, as an explorer and geographer. So the King issued letter patent to English businessmen … [Read More...]
K(no)w Bishop, K(no)w Bible
Here is a link that may help you understand the fact that the bishopric is the arbitrator of truth and that the Bible, our primary repository of truth, belongs only to the Church that is under this bishopric. You will see that there are dozens of early writings that are not in the Bible. In the first few hundred … [Read More...]
Salvation / Justification
Redemption through All Creation
In this month’s issue of the magazine Christianity Today there is an article on “Hipster Christianity” that shows how a more historical Christianity is rising within the Evangelical church, the same church that was constructed a few decades ago through the Jesus Movement. In this Jesus Movement the liturgy, … [Read More...]
Salvation Through Kingdom, Not System
Many Christians recognize John the Baptist as the prophet that once initiated the systematic call to salvation - where a person must be able to recite a prayer, then be baptized...and behold...the person is saved for eternity. But John was not giving a systematic, magic formula which required a person to jump through … [Read More...]
On “Personal Relationship” Theology
Fredrich Scheleirmacher says, "[Protestantism] makes the individual's relation to the Church dependent on his relation to Christ, [while Catholicism] makes the individual's realation to Christ dependent on his relation to the Church." Protestantism makes the individual's relation with the Church dependent on "his … [Read More...]
Through Baptism We Enter Salvation
In his book Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, Fr. Pomazansky speaks of Baptism: It serves as the door leading into the Kingdom of grace, or the Church, and it grants access to participation in the other Mysteries. Even before the establishment of the Mystery of Baptism, the Lord Jesus Christ in His conversation with … [Read More...]
Conversion is not Ethical but Spiritual
What really happens when someone inherits the gift of salvation is that they inherit a humble state of mind that is able to either lead or follow the very body of Christ, the Church. Christ said that the enemy would never overcome His established eternal people, the Church (Matthew 16:18). Isaiah 9 speaks of God’s … [Read More...]