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thedral street row houses william s pharmacy and dentist winter glen hotel winter glen town hall other large items set of 17 christmas tree in park skating pond water fountain set of 12 sets of figurines etc set of 10 antique shop figurines set of 10 bistro figurines set of 8 carolers set of 3 carriage figurines set of 7 christmas shoppe figurines set of 3 hemlock trees set of 6 pharmacy figurines set of 9 policeman figurines set of 3 white pine trees all items are in good condition but some may have some very minor damage all are in full original packaging except for two buildings which have their inner polystyrene packaging but no outer box some items come with lights and other electrical parts which have not all been tested this set is for collection from our home in woodstock va 22664 usa or we can deliver up to two hours drive from home cost depends on distance as these items are fragile and hard to pack we prefer not to ship them we can accept cash check with verified id or credit card through paypal if you would like to view this set at our home or for other questions please email peter qaya org or call 1 540 233 1092 or i can respond to comments below posted in uncategorized 2 replies johnpiper your hope is god not the bible posted on september 27 2014 by peter kirk 22 john piper the well known pastor confuses me adrian warnock who is attending piper s current conference quotes him as saying your god is whatever you find most joy in and we deserve to go to hell for not preferring god above all things great but on the same day piper tweets my only hope is the book note the capitals to be precise the tweet is from piper s ministry quoting piper does this mean that the bible is piper s god does it mean that he deserves hell for preferring the bible to god he certainly doesn t deserve my respect as a teacher for this kind of heretical teaching john piper preaching today how many feet above contradiction sadly this kind of confusion is all too common in more or less evangelical churches where the bible is treated as god we read in it that the word was god john 1 1 but forget that for john the word or logos was jesus christ not the bible in fact nowhere in the bible does the word word clearly refer to the written scriptures although sometimes it does refer to the gospel message or other teaching from god which is written in the scriptures so let s stop thinking and behaving as if the bible is god it is a book of words from god and of words of men inspired by god i don t want to get into a discussion here of exactly what that means yes we can find our hope in this book but our hope is not the book it is the god whose good news for us is written in the book john piper you need to remember this and preach it posted in evangelicalism john piper 22 replies the evangelical alliance rejects oasis and me posted on may 2 2014 by peter kirk 35 i was sad to read this today the evangelical alliance have discontinued the membership of oasis trust the stated reason for this refers to what has been perceived by some as a campaign to change the church s historic view on human sexuality oasis uk which was founded by steve chalke has responded to this see also adrian warnock s blog post this parting of ways brings back memories for me from many years ago in 1986 i attended the spring harvest christian conference for the first time at prestatyn in north wales graham kendrick led the worship highlighting his make way carnival of praise shine jesus shine was the theme song the next year among the christian leaders prominent at the event were clive calver then general secretary of the evangelical alliance and a young baptist pastor steve chalke clive calver enthused the crowds that week with his vision for evangelical christians putting aside differences over secondary matters to work together for the gospel he approached me personally while i was browsing the book sale area and signed me up as a personal member of the alliance i was happy to accept its vision and its basis of faith after 28 years i am still a member and still happy to accept the slightly revised basis of faith i note some things which are omitted from this document any statement that the bible is inerrant and any mention of sexuality or sexual ethics over the next few years steve chalke became a prominent figure in the british church as he built up his now global oasis network of community based projects among other projects oasis uk runs a number of oasis academies christian primary and secondary schools working within the state education system meanwhile chalke has become a controversial figure among evangelicals as i reported here in 2007 his infamous words about cosmic child abuse taken out of context by his critics led to a split in the spring harvest movement in the last few months he has caused renewed controversy with an article restoring confidence in the bible in which he questions but does not reject the historical accuracy of parts of the old testament for example writing concerning numbers 15 32 36 did god order this death or did moses mishear him the evangelical alliance raised concerns about the cosmic child abuse controversy but allowed chalke and oasis to remain alliance members however they seem to have taken more serious issue with his 2013 paper a matter of integrity the church sexuality inclusion and an open conversation in which he takes on the thorny issue of the church accepting people in homosexual relationships he writes too often those who seek to enter an exclusive same sex relationship have found themselves stigmatised and excluded by the church i have come to believe this is an injustice and out of step with god s character as seen through christ he seeks to justify his position with a detailed study of the relevant bible passages not by rejecting them as no longer applicable as a non evangelical would his exegesis is of course controversial and not convincing to all nevertheless the article is an attempt from within the evangelical tradition to apply biblical principles to a pressing pastoral issue as reported by oasis this article led to an on going conversation with the evangelical alliance at their request we have made several changes to our online content and believed that we had reached a point where both parties could be satisfied that our relationship would continue we are therefore disappointed by their announcement however it seems that the evangelical alliance council has chosen this issue and not the one of biblical authority or of the atonement as the grounds for declaring oasis uk to be outside the evangelical family it is extremely disappointing that this matter of sexual ethics has again been seen as more significant than central matters of the christian faith the evangelical alliance basis of faith says nothing about human sexuality but it does include this paragraph 4 we believe in the dignity of all people made male and female in god s image to love be holy and care for creation yet corrupted by sin which incurs divine wrath and judgement now i am sure that the drafters of this paragraph with its very odd grammar did not intend to love with no explicit object to include same sex relationships but by expelling oasis and rejecting chalke s call for an open and generous acceptance of people with sexualities other than heterosexual the alliance seems to be aligning itself with those in the church who stigmatise and exclude these people yet they too are among the all people whose dignity the alliance professes to believe in and all of us not just them are yet corrupted by sin in writing this i don t want to reject those who sincerely interpret scripture as prohibiting same sex relationships as long as they avoid judgmental or hate filled expressions of those beliefs but i do not consider it appropriate for the evangelical alliance as an umbrella body to take a definite position on this matter the alliance also seems to be extending its belief in the divine inspiration and supreme authority of the old and new testament scriptures which are the written word of god fully trustworthy for faith and conduct to require its members to uphold a specific interpretation of those scriptures beyond what is specified elsewhere in the basis of faith in its action today the evangelical alliance seems to have turned its back on clive calver s vision of evangelical christians putting aside differences over secondary matters to work together instead it has elevated one particular secondary matter to be a touchstone of evangelicalism and it has done so in a way which plays into the hands of the popular press with its anti christian agenda of portraying the church as obsessed with sexuality and intolerably homophobic this is most unfortunate personally i would not want to accept all of the positions that steve chalke has taken but i would affirm his pastoral care for gay and lesbian people and his rejection of how the church has often stigmatised and excluded them i would also affirm his right to explore within the evangelical tradition ways in which their full inclusion can be found compatible with biblical teaching i would call on the evangelical alliance to reverse its decision and declare that acceptance of same sex relationships can be compatible with evangelicalism since moving to the usa nearly two years ago i have become more and more uneasy with the label evangelical in north america this has become too much identified with positions on biblical inerrancy which i have never accepted as well as with certain intolerant positions on culture wars among which strong opposition to same sex marriage is currently prominent i thought i was happy being an evangelical as defined in the uk by the evangelical alliance among others but if that definition is now shifting towards the american one if specific positions on moral issues are becoming a touchstone if evangelical is coming to mean much the same as fundamentalist then is there any room left for people like me within the evangelical fold so has the time come for me to join oasis in parting company with the evangelical alliance i hope not but if things continue in the current direction this may be coming soon the evangelical alliance concludes its statement as follows the evangelical alliance council remain deeply respectful of the work and achievements of the oasis trust and have a strong desire to avoid any unseemly dispute and to speak well of each other this at least is good let us indeed agree to avoid any unseemly dispute and to speak well of each other posted in evangelicalism sexuality and marriage steve chalke 35 replies rip john richardson the ugley vicar posted on march 31 2014 by peter kirk 2 i am sorry to see that it is nearly a year since i last posted here i never intended to stop blogging and i might yet start again regularly meanwhile gentle wisdom is still getting over 100 visits most days the issue is that life has been busy for me here in virginia as the manager of a growing business and an active member of a lively church at least by posting occasionally i can reassure anyone still following this blog that i am alive and well sadly i cannot say the same about my fellow blogger john richardson who blogged as the ugley vicar and elsewhere this morning i heard the sad news that after a short illness he has passed away and gone to be with his lord john was in fact the only other regular blogger who i also met more than rather briefly during the time we were blogging for a time we both served on the committee of the chelmsford diocesan evangelical association we had several other things in common not only were we members of the church of england in the same diocese but we also started blogging as single men in our 50s and we both got married for the first time as bloggers but not to bloggers and continued to blog as married men there were of course many issues which we disagreed on and enjoyed sparring about he would probably remember me best as the person who repeatedly advised him to leave the church of england in each case because he would not accept a decision of the church leadership ironically he remained within that church while i left it but then for him the church of england was a body he was ordained into and deeply committed to even when he disagreed with its leadership whereas for me it was little more than the denomination i happened to be in at the time nevertheless on what mattered john and i were united on the heart of the gospel and on the pressing need to see that message presented clearly to the people of england and of the whole world he will be sadly missed posted in blogging 2 replies how jesus destroyed the devil s work posted on may 3 2013 by peter kirk 16 from destroy the devil s work a post by jeremy myers jesus certainly did come to destroy the devil s work but his route for doing so was not conventional or at least it was not the way any human would seek to do it he did not rain down fire and death from the skies he did not raise up an army and march off to war he did not call on political leaders and those with money power and prominence to exert their influence and bring about change no jesus destroyed the devil s works by doing the exact opposite things of the devil he loved the unlovable he forgave the worst of sinners he healed the chronically sick he fed the hungry he empowered the weak he extended grace to those who showed none he was patient with repeat offenders he did not seek to control he never sought to enslave he always refused to punish or condemn amen posted in atonement 16 replies book the biblical revelation of the cross posted on april 2 2013 by peter kirk 8 several years ago at a time when there was a lot of discussion on this blog and elsewhere of different views of the atonement norman mcilwain kindly sent me a free copy of his book the biblical revelation of the cross norman like me was critical of the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement and was looking at other ways of understanding the biblical material about the death of jesus i intended to read the book and review it here but to my regret i never did so norman has now revised and expanded his book and published it again but for now only online and free of charge the extra material is about the early church s teaching on the atonement this is not formatted as an e book but as one long html page here the biblical revelation of the cross see also norman s main bible study website i have not read most of this material and so cannot review or endorse it i can say from what i have read that it seems well argued his conclusions seem to me on a skim reading a little too close to saying that jesus death was only as a moral example but i appreciate the way in which he links our salvation in with the resurrection and the ongoing christian life our atonement therefore is achieved for us through our being raised up in christ who gave himself for us that we might know god thr...