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Christianity’s Dangerous Idea

The Bible is plain to read and plain to understand by ordinary people in all essential matters pertaining to salvation (Articles of Religion, Article 6).

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The Pelagian Default

Lazarus did not come out of the grave because he got his free will in motion to choose resurrection; it was because he received an external command from God’s word, which does what it says. - Steven Paulson

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Pelagius is My Favorite

Christians love semi-pelagianism because we don't want to admit that the corpse on the couch is actually dead, but only faint and needing some fresh air.

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Freedom of an Unfree Will

When we recognize the Grand Canyon-size gulf between us and God, we are forced to look for a solution beyond our human capacity and righteousness: to a God who saves us to the uttermost - who alone has the power to bring dead people back to life.

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Catholic or Protestant?

Michael Nazir-Ali did the right thing if his heart is not fixed on Anglican’s commitment to the primacy of Holy Scripture, and to the doctrines of justification by grace through faith alone, the universal priesthood of all believers, and to a sacramental understanding that expresses these core biblical teachings.

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Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour gave King Henry VIII his only living legitimate son, the future King Edward VI.

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God and Architecture

A person’s ability to worship is a matter of heart, and a good-hearted Christian can worship at the tin-roofed Cathedral in Jos, Nigeria as easily as at Westminster Abby.

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Tyndale the Outlaw Reformer

The law explains God’s expectations, reveals our inability to live up to the required standard of perfection, and sends us running with hair-on-fire desperation for a Savior.

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The Elizabethan Settlement

Anglican theology and worship as seen in the Elizabethan Settlement is thoroughly biblical, beautiful, and generous in its balance between doctrinal essentials and liberty in nonessentials.

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Who’s your Righteousness?

"The Lord our Righteousness" was the sermon preached March 20, 1757 at St. Mary's Church in Oxford. The preacher, William Romaine, so offended just about everyone that he was invited to never preach there again.

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