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The Importance of Theology

04/02/2017 0 Comment

“Systematic theology thus contemplates the body of biblical teaching as a living organism, offering loving attention to its various members and tracing their organic relations to each another. Ultimately, systematic theology helps us better understand God and all things in relation to God.”

“Systematic theology” is a label with admittedly clinical connotations. It conjures a picture of the theologian as someone who takes in hand the living Word of God only to dissect and dismember the body of b..

A Unified America, Gullible Skeptics, & God Wants You to Get More Sleep

03/02/2017 0 Comment

Your weekly installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web.

Articles of the Week

Caring for Refugees, J.D. Greear. Over the past week, the news has been dominated by the question of how our country—and the church—should best care for refugees. Pastor J.D.’s response points to several other useful resources, and shows what we, at the Summit, are doing to minister to refugees.

Don’t Be a Gullible Skeptic, Trevin Wax. Too many people in our current society are what Trevin c..

Calvin: imperfect offerings

03/02/2017 0 Comment

Friday, February 3, 2017
Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865
Meditation:
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
—James 1:25 (ESV)
Quotation:
But sons who are more generously and candidly treated by their fathers do not hesitate to offer them incomplete and halfdone and even defective works, trusting that their obedience and readi..

After Canceling on Christmas, Megachurch to Demonstrate Faithfulness by Streaming Super Bowl During Worship

01/02/2017 0 Comment

DALLAS, TX – Full Enjoyment Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas has announced they will be streaming The Super Bowl live during their regularly scheduled Sunday evening service. The announcement comes on the heels of some backlash the church received, after they canceled services on Christmas and New Years (which both fell on Sunday) a few weeks ago. Many questioned the church’s faithfulness to corporate worship.
The church says they will start streaming the game behind the pulpit, and leave it on f..

Why It Is Wrong To Pretend That Catholics And Protestants Agree #Reformation500

01/02/2017 0 Comment

After reading a Eucharistic prayer very similar to one that we use in the Mass, the Church of England vicar went round offering the residents – many suffering from dementia – a communion wafer. “What's this?” asked one old lady. “Just a bit of bread,” replied the vicar.

Caring for Refugees

31/01/2017 0 Comment

Over the past few days, the news has been dominated by the question of how our country—and the church—should best care for refugees.

We know that the church has an obligation, given by God, to care for the stranger with all of the passion and compassion with which we care for ourselves. Refugees in our country and in our neighborhoods deserve our unfettered love.

We also know that one of the central roles of government is to protect its people from harm, acting with justice and wisdom.

Within..

Why Be Anglican: Prayers of the People

30/01/2017 0 Comment

No question about it, but in many churches there is not a designated time for the people to pray. Some churches are just too big for that, and even too big for a pastoral prayer. Others are so focused on the sermon that there is not time left for what we Anglicans call the “prayers of the people.”
In our liturgy, every Sunday, we have a time where we are led by a lay person in prayer. It’s called “intercession” or “intercessory prayers” when we pray for others, and when we do it in public it nee..

ETERNAL PRAYERS

30/01/2017 0 Comment

MERRY MONDAY BY PARRIS

“Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.”

ACTS 10:4
God never forgets his prayers he puts within us. He needs our voice to utter his promises over the earth. Each season that passes he sends his Rain to water our precious seeds. His word says we plant them into the ground weeping but there will be a time or a season that we will rejoice over the harvest of our prayers. I bet if you close your eyes you can remember specific place..

Don’t Worry Be Godly – Pt 2

30/01/2017 0 Comment

Remember from last week that anxiety is the unproductive concern about something you can’t do anything about and that might not happen. So, if you can do something, then do it. That’s not anxiety, that’s acting on information. But if you can’t do anything about it and don’t know the future, then you must channel your fretting and worry into prayer because God does know the future and can do something.

R.C. Chapman was a well-heeled young gentleman living in 19th Century England, and he had a lo..

Thirty Seconds Alone with God

30/01/2017 0 Comment

Our Twitter and Facebook habits make praying harder than ever.

But before we look at the stats, let’s take a moment to appreciate the magic of conscious life, the capacity to focus on one thing, like this article and this unfolding sentence, following it along until it ends with a little dot. No doubt, as a reader, you’re fighting the chronic digital urge to skim.

We give our attention because we have attention to give. With our attention we can attend to one thing and avert from another t..