he descended to the dead. Firstly let me re-stress something. The ever-popular author, Dan Brown, gets it exactly back to front. In The Da Vinci Code he has the gnostics, whom early mainline Christians considered as having false teaching, as thinking that Jesus was fully human, and he has early “mainline” Christians as teaching Jesus
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When people intensely debate fine details of worship, of liturgy, of common prayer, I sense that those who disdain liturgy, and are looking on, are having their bemusement reinforced. Sadly, that would be a prejudice-based mistake. Let’s use another example. For over two decades now, a try in Rugby Football has been worth 5 points.
I have just started playing around with Vine. When I first read about it, I thought it was simply a 6 second video – micro-YouTube. I had not realised it loops. So I was thinking of six-second spirituality videos and six-second sermon videos. But that doesn’t really work when it loops… But my idea of
September 1, in the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, is the Festival of The Builders of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. It is usually represented in bold type (cf. old style “Red letter day”) in A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa [NZPB] (page 9).
Do you preach from a text or not? One can preach form a full, prepared text, a partial text, notes, or no notes. If you use a text, I think that it should not feel “read”. One hint for those who use a full text, practise it aloud. Read the last paragraph aloud. Then read
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he suffered death and was buried was crucified, died, and was buried There is this strange day in the church year: Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday, when Jesus dies, and Easter Day when he rises from the dead. Some call it Easter Saturday – that’s absolutely incorrect – Easter Saturday is a week
Following the recent discussion about praying by heart I ended up in a conversation which I think we often encounter in differing forms: “Don’t forget what Jesus says about vain repetition” (ie. Matthew 6:7). To which I reply, yes, in Matthew’s Gospel the Lord’s Prayer is an example of how to pray, like a model
