How can you avoid becoming a victim of an Uber imposter? Follow these important tips:
Before you get into the car, use the Uber app to check the license plate. Make sure it matches the actual car.
Check to make sure the person behind the wheel looks like your driver’s photo in the app.
Don’t give away your name. Instead, ask the driver who they are picking up….
The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada has nominated five of its number for the election of a new Primate and Archbishop. The current Primate of Canada, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, will retire on 16 July at the end of the province’s triennial General Synod meeting, after serving as leader of the Church since 2007. His successor will be elected by deacon- priest- and lay-members of the General Synod on 13 July. The new Archbishop will be officially installed on 16 July.
The Church’s canons for dealing with Primatial vacancies require the House of Bishops to nominate at least three and no more than five candidates at their last meeting prior to a General Synod. The recently retired Primate of the Church of the Province of the West Indies, Archbishop John Holder, led the bishops in “a prayerful and grace-filled retreat” ahead of the nomination process, the Church of Canada said in a statement. The Bishops are meeting in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Bishops Jane Alexander, Linda Nicholls, and Michael Oulton, and Archbishops Ron Cutler and Gregory Kerr-Wilson, nominated as Primate.#AnglicanNews #Anglican #Anglicanshttps://t.co/GNukkKy9kK
— Anglican Communion News Service (@AnglicanNews) March 28, 2019
She was completely trapped, locked ina life of immorality and shame with no apparent way out.No way forward. No way back. Living an almost invisible existence until he, under God’s providence, crossed several boundaries—both geographical and cultural; established a personal contact with her in spite of her desire to be invisible; courted her curiosity; touched her deepest pain and need and brought her into the grace of his reckless and redeeming love….
A Letter from #SouthCarolina Bishop Mark Lawrence to all Parishes to be distributed this past Sunday https://t.co/AcYDB8E8UJ #law #religion #ethics #stewardship pic.twitter.com/XE8Qjd3z9S
— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) June 18, 2018
Evangelicals are having a branding problem. When I searched Twitter in December of 2018 for tweets that contained the word “evangelical,” I was surprised to see that one of the most popular words that appeared in those tweets was the word “white.” In fact, I looked back over a number of different sets of tweets going back to 2017 and the term “white evangelical” comes up frequently among those discussing evangelical Protestants on social media. That means that at least one vocal portion of the population sees that evangelicalism has become strongly linked with a white racial identity. That’s bad news if you are concerned about the future viability of American evangelicalism. In this article, I want to outline three important trends regarding race and faith that we should consider as we try to lead evangelicalism through this period.
First, Evangelicals are not keeping pace with America’s racial diversity
It is a widely accepted statistical fact that the racial makeup of the United States is rapidly changing. In 2018, about seven in ten people living in the United States are non-Hispanic whites. However, that will dramatically change over the next 30 years. The United States Census Bureau now projects that somewhere between 2045 and 2050, the share of the population that is white will drop below fifty percent.
While there are numerous reasons for this change, it appears to be due to two key factors. First, the average age of the white population is steadily increasing, while the ages of other racial groups are staying much lower. Second, the fertility rate of racial minorities is far outpacing the number of children that are born to white Americans. This is already evident in the data. In the 2018 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), just 57% of respondents between the ages of 18 and 25 were white.
I wrote a piece for @edstetzer at @CTmagazine about the coming generation of evangelicals.
70.9% of evangelicals between 18-35 are white, compared to just 58.5% of the general population. It’s going to be a problem if they want to grow. https://t.co/Jq8FUpweVa
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) April 1, 2019
You can find it on Netflix. The interactions between Kevin Costner And Woody Harrelson alone are worth the price of admission–very well done–KSH.
Netflix’s #TheHighwaymen gives viewers a little more to chew on than your average cops-and-robbers fare: https://t.co/SCUEgib6ox pic.twitter.com/8NYyTv1Nuq
— Decider (@decider) March 26, 2019
YAHWEH IS ONE OF GOD’S NAMES, and Moses was the first one he told it to. Maybe it means “I am what I am” or something along those lines, and maybe it doesn’t. At other places in the Bible he is given names like Elohim, El Shaddai, and the Lord. Jesus called him mainly Abba, which is Aramaic for “father.” Yahweh doesn’t seem to care too much what people call him as long as the lines of communication are kept open.
He “inhabits eternity,” says the prophet Isaiah (57:15). That means before there was anything, he was, and long after there’s nothing much left, he still will be. But you can’t apply tenses like was or will be to Yahweh literally any more than you can apply the names of colors literally to the sounds of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards playing “Amazing Grace.” He doesn’t inhabit time like everybody else. He invented time.
“If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there thy hand shall lead me,” says Psalm 139 (vv. 9-10), which means that any place you can possibly think of is a place where Yahweh is because there’s no place you can possibly think of that’s a place where Yahweh isn’t. He no more exists in space than Norman Rockwell exists in the covers of the Saturday Evening Post. Space is the canvas he paints creation on.
But all this doesn’t mean for one second that he doesn’t keep on turning up in time and space anyway….
Read it all (this is quoted in the sermon posted as the entry before this).
You can listen directly there and download the mp3 there.
Almighty God, who hast restored our human nature to heavenly glory through the perfect obedience of our Savior Jesus Christ: Keep alive in thy Church, we beseech thee, a passion for justice and truth; that we, like thy servant Federick Denison Maurice, may work and pray for the triumph of the kingdom of thy Christ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
F.D. Maurice: ‘We have been dosing our people with religion, when what they want is not that but the living God.’ pic.twitter.com/GoEjZ5iNnf
— willlevanway (@willlevanway) October 23, 2018
We beseech thee, Almighty God, mercifully to look upon thy people; that by thy great goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore, both in body and soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
—Daily Prayer, Eric Milner-White and G. W. Briggs, eds. (London: Penguin Books 1959 edition of the 1941 original)
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiber’i-as. And a multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were diseased. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a multitude was coming to him, Jesus said to Philip, “How are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are they among so many?” Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place; so the men sat down, in number about five thousand. Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the fragments left over, that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten. When the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!” Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
–John 6:1-15