"The HSLDA said the decision is a victory for now.

"In defeating this measure, British homeschoolers have blunted an effort by those who seek to impose unnecessary restriction on parents who home educate.".

Er ..... no.
(1) An election has been called so all bills before UK parliament have lapsed.
(2) There is a big difference between the United Kingdom and the United Nations.

The key issue for all is the authority of Christ, not the authority of "anyone else". That is popery wherever it is to be found.

Scott McMahan wrote:
There's talk of adding a European VAT on top of income tax.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Sacraments? I am surprised at that word, Protestants only have ordinaces.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
We do not have sacraments, we have ordinances.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
It boils down to the fact that a family hour on Sunday mornings does not a church make.

Jim - I aim to read the full articles for all the news stories I comment on. Unfortunately I do not have the time to read all of your links.

I'm surprised that, as an Anabaptist, you have not even heard that some Protestants maintain the use of the word "sacrament". On another thread you said "One giant of the faith, was Martin Luther." Perhaps you would consider researching Luther's teaching on the sacraments.

Whether you agree with Dan Horn or Martin Luther or not, their use of the word sacrament is accurate in reference to the history of Protestantism

Scott McMahan wrote:
There's talk of adding a European VAT on top of income tax.

Scott McMahan wrote:
How careful are employers when they try to vet you on the Internet at insuring the information is really about you, when they're looking for reasons to disqualify candidates? What protections do you have?

“Others are home churching because of a bad experience they had at a church or a dissatisfaction with the churches they attended.”

“He found that some are engaged in it because they ... have yet to find a church community.”

"Frequently, the reason people are home churching is because they don't want to be under authority," said Horn. "When we reject authority, we're rejecting the Gospel."

Rejection of authority is key. The key Bible passage is
“For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me”

If more church “elders” were truly men under God’s authority they would have soldiers serving UNDER them just as they serve UNDER Christ’s authority.

The real crisis today is MANY “elders” serve themselves under a guise of biblical churchmanship putting whoever they please out of the church without biblical cause. And are proud of it!

“The elders encouraged home-churchgoers to find a biblical church.” Agree.

Mike wrote:
The "special protections" are not an entitlement that can be taken away by government, for they are not granted by government.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
I would suggest those of you in Great Britain should be arguing with the Anglican church to be in the forefront of the celebrations to honor its Bible.

Mike wrote:
Bit by bit, the Obama administration reveals its true colors. An American muslim terrorist gets on the hit list, but a foreign muslim terrorist, mastermind of 9/11, gets a trial in a US court, under US law. Can't be too nice to those foreign bad guys, but we need to be able to kill Americans considered a "threat." With the precedent being set, which Americans will be considered a threat next?

Appreciate your perspective, you raise a good contrast.

I read the piece extract as the journalists objecting to Americans being suitable for assassination / extra-judicial killing being 'wrong', but quietly accepting of this practice towards non-US citizens in non-combat situations.

Surely both the citizen and the stranger, within and without the gates, is entitled to a fair trial and due process of law?

And which part of the US constitution authorizes extra-judicial killings?

"However, officials now argue privately that Americans who side with the country's enemies are not ultimately "entitled to special protections"."

The right to a fair trial before your peers seems to be reduced to a "special protection" at the discretion of an Executive.

Just like the failed link at Christianpost.com.
Gotta love the 404 errors.

"I think Calvin probably had it correct when he defined the church as having the preaching of the Word, there's a right administration of the sacraments and there's church discipline.
"The problem is most of the home churches that I know of failed in one or all of those, especially the last one." ...

Not sure how that failure is restricted to home churches.

Myriad whitewashed churches fail on discerning Lord's body / the nature of the church, benefits of church discipline, and consequently fail to truly administer Christ's ordinances at all let alone rightly, and in turn this undermines the preaching.

"Ice hockey"?
They actually built an ice rink there?

I can only assume the US squaddies will now be heading over to Tim Horton's presumably located somewhere in the vicinity of the ice rink
... at least until the pull out when the politicians put a stop to this pretence of "nation building".

Pastor Andrew Webb wrote:
Interesting isn't it that the world's solution to the problems caused by a manifestly unbiblical practice (enforced celibacy) is another unbiblical practice (women's ordination)?
But then again it shouldn't surprise us when their solution for the "problem" of pregnancies caused by fornication is murder.

Are we likewise to assume by Pastor Webb's reasoning that his own enforcement of (biblical) celibacy also causes the same problems of abuse, rape and molestation? If not, why not?

And, are there not protestant problems of abuse, rape and molestation within the church by married members?

Yes, obsolete is clearly the wrong word for this.

If he really wanted to "edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete" or edge towards a nuclear weapons free world or "set an example" he should begin by advocating that his OWN country (and I don't mean Kenya or Indonesia) disarms , and refuse to sign any current funding measures.

Asking other "countries to give up any nuclear ambitions" when his own country has them is simple hypocrisy.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
An unlucky number for the Palestinians? The Israelis should have given them 14 can't have people becoming superstitious. [URL=http://www.raptureready.com/featured/ice/MythsAboutIsraelandPalestine.html]]]Myths About Israel and Palestine[/URL].