Catholic?
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Catholic?
Early in the 4th century a dispute arose in Alexandria because of a teacher called Arius. He tried to state a Christian doctrine of God in a way that Platonists could understand. He started with the idea that the supreme God is one and that therefore Christ could not be eternal in the same way as God. Christ was not equal to the Father and had been created by the Father out of nothing, even though he was the highest of all God’s creatures.
The dispute spread until the Emperor Constantine called a Council of the church at which he would preside – at Nicea, near his headquarters in Nicomedia.
At the Council in Nicea in 325 Constantine (probably at the suggestion of Bishop Hosius of Cordova) proposed the clause, that the Son was “of one substance” (homoousios) with the Father.
Unfortunately the debate did not go away and a new Emperor, Theodosius, who did not agree with the Arians, called a Council in Constantinople in 381.
12B. Who should be let in? Acts 10 - 11
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12B. Who should be let in? Acts 10 - 11
Series: A Mission without Leaders or Plans Acts 8-12 Broome 2015
Sermon preached at Broome Anglican Church on 22 November 2015
Bible Readings: Isaiah 49.1-7; Acts 11.1-18
What is happening here? Who organised it? How was it accomplished? What are the implications?
Not like us?
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Not like us?
The terrible carnage in Paris has raised again the question of bias in reporting. Many on Facebook have been overlaying their profile pictures with the colours of the French flag. Others on the other hand have asked why they didn't also use the Lebanese flag colours or those of Kenya, or Syria for that matter (the day before the Paris attacks bombs in Beirut killed 44 people, in April 147 people people were killed at a university in Kenya).
The debate is partly about news media basing their reporting on what the audience wants to see or read. Nowadays there are fairly accurate measures of audience response. Generally, it seems, people respond more to stories about “people like us”.
11B. How to Reach the Enemy Acts 8.1-25
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2. How to Reach the Enemy Acts 8.1-25
Series: A Mission without Leaders or Plans Acts 8-12 Broome 2015
Sermon preached at Broome Anglican Church on 15 November 2015
Bible Readings: Ezekiel 37.15-28; Acts 8.1-25
How the gospel spread to Samaria through persecution without the apostles, and what it means for the Samaritans to be included
What Hope?
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What Hope?
Will the church in Syria disappear? Has the gospel been silenced in Iraq and Iran? Are we in another period when things look black for the Christian church? What are we to make of these pressures against the gospel?
One thing to do is to look back at times when this kind of thing has happened before. Any time will do since this kind of thing has been happening from the beginning, and before the beginning.
What we see, both in the pages of the Bible, and in the history of the church, is that God keeps on working.
1B. God's Great Plan Luke 24 Acts 1
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1. God's Great Plan Luke 24 Acts 1
Series: A Mission without Leaders or Plans Acts 8-12 Broome 2015
Sermon preached at Broome Anglican Church on 8 November 2015
Bible Readings: Luke 24.36-53; Acts 1.1-8
Where to find out what the message is, what it means and how it spreads. Jesus' explanation repeated to two groups in Luke 24, and the program in Acts 1
14. The Praying Spirit Ephesians 6.18-24
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The Praying Spirit Ephesians 6.18-24
Series: Final parts of a series on Ephesians at Broome Anglican Church
Sermon preached at Broome Anglican Church on 1 November 2015
Prayer; Proclamation; Partnership
Bible Readings: Jeremiah 1.1-12; Ephesians 6.18-24
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