William Tyndale

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A Friend of mine, Franklin Sanders, posted this:
On 6 October 1536 Anglican priest William Tyndale, having been captured at Antwerp, was tried, strangled, and burnt at the stake for translating large parts of the Bible into English. Printing the Bible in the people’s own language was accounted a crime by church & state.
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Eastern Orthodox

September 8, 2008

Nope, we have not converted, but we did visit an interesting worship service with a great friend who is a member of the Eastern Orthodox church in Wichita, KS.  Actually, they call it Divine Liturgy.  The Eastern Orthodox folks have different terms for most everything, we found out.  It was a beautiful service, with pageantry, reverence, something to engage almost every [...]

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Public Confession of Sin?

August 24, 2008

Over the last 200 or so concerts I have talked about sin quite a bit.  At the same time I have observed that many churches, both those of my home denomination (which is PCA), and others who are evangelical, conservative, and would say they attempt to be biblical, talk very little about sin or confession [...]

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Family Worship

February 25, 2008

I find this to be a challenge every day.  It seems that between making coffee, breakfast, changing the table from a bed back into a table, having the children fold all the blankets and put them in the rear of the motorhome so that we have our living room back, I just start to lose [...]

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Tradition…

September 18, 2006

Today I had a great conversation about tradition, repetition, and historical meaningfulness. To a certain degree, these topics are on my mind because I recently played a concert for a Catholic Church and for an Episcopal Chapel Service. At Sacred Heart Catholic church I simply presented a midweek concert, but at St. James [...]

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