I want to enthusiastically recommend a relatively new preaching resource to you: WaiapuAcademy.org. This has a wonderful collection of podcasts that is being updated each week. Click here for the podcast for this coming Sunday (February 13). The Rev. Dr. Howard Pilgrim is a colleague and friend. He has had a lifelong passion for biblical
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“I think it’s great the way churches have become more inclusive and open-minded these days…” “… aren’t you all entitled to your half-arsed musings on the divine. You’ve thought about eternity for twenty five minutes and think you’ve come to some interesting conclusions. Well let me tell you, I stand with two thousand years of
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I regularly get asked if A New Zealand Prayer Book (NZPB) is available on a website, like Common Worship, or TEC’s BCP. There is a Windows program. There is no Mac option, but it runs fine on a Windows emulator such as VMware Fusion on a Mac. The website states “WePray by LabOra is completely
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I was delighted, yesterday, to have a visit from a friend from England, Bishop Colin Buchanan. Colin describes himself as An Evangelical Among the Anglican Liturgists. I have a lot of the works he has written. And he has written a lot. I’m grateful he brought with him for me his Modern Anglican Liturgies 1958-1968.
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scripture readings textweek resources Collect from Common Worship (CofE) O God, you know us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright: grant to us such strength and protection as may support us in all dangers and
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Benedictine monk, Fr Anthony Ruff, who is Associate Professor of Theology at Collegeville and a chant expert, has publicly withdrawn from all his upcoming speaking engagements on the Roman Missal in dioceses across the United States. He has published an Open Letter to the U.S. Roman Catholic Bishops on the forthcoming English translation of the
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I have already started the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James or Authorised version of the Bible. Wycliffe John Wycliffe (c. 1328 – 31 December 1384), an English priest, is sometimes called “The Morning Star of the Reformation”. We are not sure how much of it he translated himself,
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I was visiting Akaroa recently and saw this notice of their Covenant outside the Presbyterian Church: Our Covenant Banks Peninsula Presbyterian Parish We covenant to respect the diversity of belief among ourselves as together we grow in understanding of God and of our own lives. Respect means that we will surround the other person with
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