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The Feast Of Christ The King - Sunday 22nd November, 2009
Christ the King Sunday celebrates the all-embracing authority of Christ as King and Lord of the cosmos. Officially called the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King, it is celebrated on the final Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Sunday before Advent. This year it falls on November 22, 2009. The Feast of Christ the King is of modern origin. It was instituted in 1925 to function in a countercultural way against the secularisation of the modern world. It is needed now more than ever as the time before Christmas has become saturated by consumerism, crowding out the real meaning of the season. By pointing to the ultimate reign of Christ over all the peoples of th

The Future Of Evangelicalism
‘O, Evangelicos!’ We need not abandon our name—just live up to it. By Philip Yancey. Christianity Today (18/11/2009). Evangelicalism has become a global phenomenon. In the past year I have visited the Middle East, India, Africa, Latin America, and Europe as the guest of churches and ministries. In each place, evangelicals exude life and energy. While staid churches change slowly, evangelicals tend to be light on their feet, adapting quickly to cultural trends. The Jesus movement, the house-church movement, seeker-friendly churches, emergent churches—evan

Evangelicalism’s Death Rattle - Where To From Here?
I am becoming a great fan of self-styled “Post Evangelical” commentator Michael Spencer, otherwise know as Internet Monk. I thoroughly enjoy iMonk’s perspective on (predominantly North American) evangelicalism and what he and others define as “post-evangelicalism”. iMonk’s perspective is certainly of US evangelicalism and obviously evangelicalism is a world-wide

All Truth Is God’s Truth
by R.C. Sproul   Few books I have read have made a lasting impression on my mind and thought. One of them I read over fifty years ago. The title of the book was The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, and it made a lasting impression upon me because it clearly set forth the importance of understanding that all scientific theories presuppose certain philosophical premises. The philosophical premises that are the underpinning of scientific inquiry are often taken for granted and never given even a cursory exploration. But in a time when fierce debate rages between science and theology, it

‘The Naked Gospel’ - Andrew Farley
About the Naked Gospel As a university student, Andrew Farley found himself physically and emotionally addicted to street evangelism and Bible study. Yet despite his fervid behavior, he knew something was missing. That something was an understanding of the gospel that is stripped of the compromises and cliches of the modern church. The Naked Gospel finds friends