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Conservative and Radical. "Every Christian should be both conservative and radical: conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it." - John R.W. Stott The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice - and so the pain - of the cross. --- John R. W. Stott Unchanging grace. Paul is confident of the believer's eternal security, only because he is confident in God's unchanging grace. 'Whom he foreknew, he predestined ... whom he predestined, he called; whom he called, he justified, he also glorified' (Rom. 8:29-30). This chain of divine grace cannot be broken at any of its links. --- From "Men with a Message" John R. W. Stott A solid foundation. The solid foundation on which our hope of glory rests is the love of God. It is because God has set his love upon us that we know, beyond any question or doubt, that he is going to bring us to glory. We believe that we are going to persevere to the end, and we have good grounds for our confidence. It is partly because of the character God is forming in us through suffering that we can be confident ('suffering - endurance - character - hope'). If he is sanctifying us now, he will surely glorify us then. But it is chiefly because of 'the love that will not let us go' --- From "Men Made New" John R.W. Stott Do Not Forget the Holy Nature of God. Myriads of professing Christians at the present day have not an idea of their own sinfulness and guilt in the sight of God. They flatter themselves that they have never done anything very wicked. They have never murdered, or stolen, or committed adultery, or borne false witness. They cannot surely be in much danger of missing heaven. They forget the holy nature of that God with whom they have to do.

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VOL believes that the figure of 2.3 million Episcopalians, regularly stated by TEC leaders and officials, does not reveal the true state of church attendance. More than two-thirds of this figure have either died, left the church, or attend twice a year, along with tens of thousands still on church rolls who have never been (and should be) removed. The only true standard to gauge the Episcopal Church’s health is Average Sunday Attendance (ASA). The study undertaken by VOL staff reveals a church in sharp decline with 2219 churches having congregations of aging parishioners in their mid 60s with little or no chance of turnaround in the foreseeable future. There are virtually no young people coming forward to fill the gap. Those being trained in TEC’s liberal seminaries will have no message that is discernibly different from the prevailing culture. What this foreshadows is that within the next 3 to 5 years more than 2,000 churches across the country will be forced to close, merge or be sold regardless of cash reserves or endowment because there will simply not be enough people in them to keep the doors open. Hundreds of clergy will be forced into early retirement; many will have to take secondary employment in an attempt to keep the doors open to a handful of aging congregants. C. Kirk Hadaway, a church analyst on Denominational Growth and Decline, stated, "The age structure of The Episcopal Church suggests an average of forty thousand deaths and twenty-one thousand births, or a natural decline of 19,000 members per year, a population larger than most dioceses. The advanced-and still advancing-age of our membership combined with our low birth rate means that we lose the equivalent of one diocese per year." The consecration of the openly homosexual Bishop of New Hampshire, V. Gene Robinson, has proven to be the single greatest cause of conflict in The Episcopal Church.

Orlando, a biography

Orlando doubles first as an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in an annotated edition of the ...

Cathedral, The Story of Its Construction

Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a magnificent Gothic cathedral in the imaginary French town of Chutreaux during the ...

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A band of Irish extremists led by Brian Flynn seizes St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on St. Patrick's Day and demands the release of prisoners from ...

The cathedral, by J. K. Huysman ; translated from the French by Clara Bell, and edited with a prefatory note by C. Kegan Paul

THE CATHEDRAL. CHAPTER I. AT Chartres, as you turn out of the little market- place, which is swept in all weathers by the surly wind from the flats, ...