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雖然與你只見過幾次面，但消息的之突然，心總難平伏，何況在你身邊一路同行的弟兄姊妹？

給你，
也給難以接受的你們。

日落之那邊
日落之那邊，賜福之早晨，
在天堂樂境，與主相親。
勞碌盡完畢，榮耀之黎明，
日落之那邊，永遠歡欣。

日落之那邊，雲霧盡消去，
無風暴威脅，無憂無慮；
榮耀快樂日，永遠快樂日，
日落之那邊，歡樂不息。

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When you were stuck in a seminary 7 hours a day, for 5 days, what would happen?

Reading and getting books, of course!

1. The Triune Creator: A Historical and Systematic Study (Gunton)
2. The Justification Reader (Oden)
3. The Good Works Reader (Oden)
4. Reimagining Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey (Richardson)
5. Holiness (Webster)

And these from Seed Press:

1. Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth (Greenman)
2. Inspired By . . . The Bible Experience: The Complete Bible (mp3)
3. 從自力到衪力（陳耀南）

If you haven’t, go bookmark or subscribe the RSS feed from Missio Dei.

Missio Dei is a new kind of journal, geared for the whole spectrum of Christian leaders in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Each month you will find articles here by faculty and friends of Tyndale Seminary. The authors will explore how insights from their diverse fields of expertise can help you to reflect on the real work of engaging our communities with the Gospel.

… the articles in Missio Dei will aim to be integrative. Too often our thinking and our work is chopped up and amputated by artificial separations and polarities. Scholarship is pitted against practical action. Evangelism is pitted against social justice. The Seminary is pitted against the Church. Faith is pitted against careful thinking. The authors writing in Missio Dei will approach their varied topics with the common conviction that God’s work must embrace both ends of these oppositions.

And to whet your appetite, may I suggest Dr. Ian Scott’s article on what it means to join God’s mission with a Southern Ontario focus in Paul and God’s Multicultural Mission.

[Missio Dei]

In Acts, the miracle workers were also the greatest apologists. Yet today, if you want to see miracles you will go to one place, and if you want to meet an apologist, you will likely need to go to another!

Liberals glorify their doubt, and [so] we (Evangelicals) glorify our faith. Eventually, we begin to think that we know everything. Everything we say, we say it as if we have the utmost authority and certainty. Yet there are things that Jesus allows us to explore, to fight over.

One of the major issues that hindered me back in 2007 when considering the possibility of doing church -planting under AMiA was the question of unity and solidarity. While seeing a lot of faithful Christians leaving the ACC and the ECUSA, I see many were forming their own group, doing their own thing. I felt there was a lack of unifying spirit for those who left for more or less the same reason but at various times.

I asked Archbishop Yong and Bishop TJ about this, and sure enough, they told me about Common Cause and assured me that this stage was only temporary. So I am very excited and glad and grateful to God that the Anglican Church in North America has now become as reality, with it inauguration at Christ Church Plano, Texas on June 24, 2009.

The procession of clergy and bishops for the installation of ACNA:

Other video links, including (Arch)bishop Duncan’s address at the Inaugural Assembly (2nd in list):

At a time when Christian-hopping and church-splitting are so common, isn’t it wonderful to witness a moment in church history when followers of Christ are join together for a single purpose of mission?

Thanks Anson for linking to the video. See his post for more related links and news.