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Wyatt Houtz

I was thinking this as I wrote my post. I'm a weenie -- I'll go ahead and admit it. Thankfully Easter is coming up, which would be a good motivator to pop in and check them out.

Now that the United Methodist Church is doomed, I am thinking about affiliating with a local CP church. I like their denominational Confession of Faith and the statements of belief that I've read on various congregational websites. Can anyone share some experiences? Did you find a broad range of...

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I've held off joining a UMC until the issue is settled. If there is a liberal purge, I'll join a congregation that doesn't side with them. If there's a traditionalist purge, I'll probably stay unchurched.

If you look at statistics regarding homosexual promiscuity and STD/STI rates, you'll find the answer is lust, as Paul says in Romans 1:24-27: Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth...

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John 2:18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he...

Reformed theologian Emil Brunner had this to say: There is, of course, a form of prayer which has in it nothing offensive to reason, namely meditation, quietism and contemplative absorption. To lose oneself in the divine mystery, to give oneself up to the feeling of reverence in the presence of...

GI Jewelry makes stainless steel ones for the US military. Not sure if they ship to the UK though.

One must bear in mind that the mainline Methodist church and those which came out of the Holiness Movement such as the Nazarenes, Free Methodists, Wesleyan Church, etc. have fairly divergent views of Scripture and tradition, styles of worship, and so on that have been in place since the 1800s...

So, your solution to the present disagreement is to allow liberal pastors in liberal regional congregations to present their version of the Gospel, and to allow conservative pastors in conservative regional congregations to present theirs, and call it unity? The Anglican Church in North America...

Christians should feel free to celebrate Halloween, or any other secular holiday. They should also feel free to celebrate Reformation Day. :)

I had an experience quite similar to one described by Richard Rolle: http://plainfieldfriends.com/pdf/RichardRolle.pdf

The ancient Egyptians were indigenous to Northern Africa, and genetically similar to their Near Eastern and Levantine neighbors. The unnecessarily controversial "Black Egypt" theory has been put to rest with genetic testing: Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan...

Almost all of my Southern ancestors fought for the Union. I have two Confederates: one was an old man (a Mexican-American War veteran) who lied about his age and made himself 10 years younger to join a cavalry unit; he was very quickly discharged "due to debility," though I suppose he would...

Extracted from Emil Brunner, Dogmatics: Vol. 2: The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption, ch. 2: Man and Creation (10): The Question of the Immortality of the Soul. Almost the whole of the Christian tradition in the realm of doctrine regards the immortality of the soul as the...

I believe Brunner is referencing Luke 4:1-13:

Extracted and re-arranged from Emil Brunner, Dogmatics: Vol. 2: The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption, ch. 5: Angels, Spirits and the Devil. Part 1 In the New Testament, the existence of a power of darkness (however this may be conceived) -- is integral to the story of Jesus...

These are the 'Apostolic Fathers,' a sub-set of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. What you want is The Apostolic Fathers in English by Michael W. Holmes.