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"For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world,
and loses his own soul?" Matthew 16:25-26a NKJV
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Message from Bishop Anderson
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 Bishop Anderson is traveling today and was not able to write an article.
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Message from Canon Ashey
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 Exporting and enforcing an anti-Christian ethicDear Friends in Christ, Last week Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK, speaking at a reception celebrating the passage of the UK's same sex marriage bill, announced that he wants to export same sex marriage "around the world": "Many other countries are going to want to copy this. And, as you know, I talk about the global race, about how we've got to export more and sell more so I'm going to export the bill team. I think they can be part of this global race and take it around the world."
You can read the whole article from the The Telegraph here. Yesterday a prominent homosexual couple in England, Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, announced that they are prepared to sue the Church of England for "opting out" of the same sex marriage bill. In the August 2 issue of the Essex Chronicle, Barrie Drewitt-Barlow said: "It upsets me because I want it so much - a big lavish ceremony, the whole works, I just don't think it is going to happen straight away.
"As much as people are saying this is a good thing I am still not getting what I want....
"The only way forward for us now is to make a challenge in the courts against the church."...
Read the rest of Canon Ashey's article here.
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Church Property Wars: Court Socks LA Presbytery with $400K in Sanctions
| Source: Anglican Curmudgeon
August 1, 2013
By A.S. Haley
In an order made public by The Layman online earlier today, the Hon. Kay Bates, Judge of the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana imposed compensatory sanctions of $390,000 against the Presbytery of South Louisiana ("PSL") for conduct by its agents and attorneys, as well as by personnel and attorneys from PCUSA headquarters, in the litigation between PSL and the Carrollton Presbyterian Church of East Baton Rouge -- a unit of PCUSA which has only about 20 members -- over the ownership rights to Carrollton's property.
The order is remarkable not only for the amount of sanctions awarded, but for the public dressing down which Judge Bates gives to various PCUSA counsel for their egregious litigation tactics....
The rest of the article may be found here.
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UK: Changing the Guard at Anglican Mainstream
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Source: Anglican Mainstream
July 31, 2013
By Philip Giddings
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Tomorrow (Thursday) we welcome Andrew Symes as the new Executive Secretary of Anglican Mainstream in succession to Chris Sugden who has held the position since May 2003. Today we give heartfelt thanks to God for the passionate commitment, indefatigable energy and extensive knowledge and connections which Chris has brought to the work of promoting Biblical orthodoxy in matters relating to marriage and family life over the past ten years. Under his leadership Anglican Mainstream has established itself as an authoritative resource for materials and opinion across the Anglican Communion and beyond and the AM website is a resource which is greatly valued even by those who do not entirely share our convictions. The range of material on the website is itself testimony to the breadth of Chris' connections and interests.
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Chris Sugden
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He has ensured that we have always kept in view the bigger picture of world mission and holistic evangelism. Many can testify to the wise counsel and advice which he has given. And he has borne with grace and patience the criticism and personal abuse which comes with engaging in public controversy on an issue like human sexuality. Above all he has been faithful to Christ in the ministry to which he was called....
The rest of the article may be found here.
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Nigeria: Land Approved for Abuja Anglican University
| Source: AllAfrica
July 30, 2013
The Federal Government has approved 100 hectares of land for the permanent site of the proposed Anglican University, Abuja.
The Bishop of Kubwa Diocese, Duke Akamisoko, stated this in an interview with Newsmen during the 2nd Session of the Second Synod held at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Nyanya in Abuja.
Akamisoko also assured that any Anglican Church member who meet the five credit including English Language and Mathematics requirement would be offered admission into the University without writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) or Post UTME.
According to him, "already, five Anglican professors have indicated interest to teach in the University", which has been scheduled to take-off soon....
The rest of the article may be found here.
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Irish President signs abortion into law: pro-lifers vow legal challenges
| Source: LifeSiteNews 
July 30, 2013
By Hilary White
The Irish President today signed into law the bill that allows direct killing of unborn children, up to the point of full gestation, in cases where the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother, including if she threatens suicide.
Pro-life activists have said that not only does the law violate the Constitution's protections for the unborn, but the suicide provision is wide open to abuse and could pave the way for effective abortion on demand. During government hearings into the bill psychiatric professionals had specifically denounced the suicide provision, saying abortion can never be considered treatment for mental illness.
While President Michael D. Higgins had the power to send the Protection of Life in Pregnancy Act 2013 to the country's Supreme Court to determine whether it violated the country's constitutional guarantee of the right to life for the unborn, he chose instead to sign without a legal review....
The rest of the article may be found here.
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Who Am I to Judge? The Pope, the Press, and the Predicament
| Source: Albert Mohler blog
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July 30, 2013
By Albert Mohler
Pope Francis pulled a surprise on reporters when he walked back to the press section of his Alitalia papal flight from Brazil and entered into an open press conference that lasted more than an hour. The Pope gave the press what Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton offered as presidents - a casual question and answer session that was on the record.
The biggest headline from the Pope's remarks was not what he had to say about the scandals at the Vatican Bank, but what he said about homosexuality and, in particular, homosexuals in the priesthood. The key sentence in the Pope's remarks is this: "If a person is gay and seeks the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge that person?"
The papal remarks put the international press into a frenzy. Headlines across the world announced a revolution in Roman Catholic moral teaching, a changed position on homosexuality, or at least an historic "new openness" on the issue of homosexuality.
Predictably, a closer look reveals a more complicated and far less revolutionary reality. Pope Francis did not change or modify one sentence of Catholic moral teaching. The official Catechism of the Catholic Church states that homosexuality is "objectively disordered." The Catholic Church and this Catholic Pope are not reluctant to offer a moral judgment when it comes to homosexual behaviors. The Catholic Church offers a long tradition of consistent moral judgment on the issue of homosexual acts, and the church declares them to be "objectively disordered" and sinful. That did not change....
The rest of the article may be found here.
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