Matthew Winbow

A collection of sermons from when I was a free church pastor: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Had an amazing time at The Well Church, a @ChurchOfEngland congregation in North Swindon. Got to share my @Logos swag bag, meet new friends, and share a Pentecost msg! Thx, @paulfreeland, for your leadership and kind invitation! The median Church of England congregation has 1 child on Sunday-- The Well had dozens. I will share more about why and how in a forthcoming @ChurchLead article!

At St Giles-in-the-Fields we have a simple approach to mission: ♨️A warm welcome 🎶Good music and rousing hymns 📖Compelling teaching ⛪️Reverence for the sacraments 🤝Friendly, but room to be alone ✝️Book of Common Prayer and King James Bible 🚫No offering of 'the peace'

I made this with AI. It’s not perfect, but the point stands. Multi-site ministry is episcopacy reinvented.

@nic_lucc Happy Birthday!

TIL Chesterton and I have the same birthday

If wisdom is knowing that you do not know, then AI LLMs, whilst possessing knowledge, are not wise because they do not know that they do not know. Rather, they will invent an answer to please you.

The similarities between Christianity and Shin Buddhism regarding the emphasis on salvation by faith and our helplessness to save ourselves is striking.

"divinity or god-ness is a spectrum in antiquity, with a range of meanings including a True Most High God, a lesser immortal deity, a semi-divine being, a deified mortal, or an earthly ruler given divine honors for acts of benefaction and rescue." - M Bird

In which we give thanks to God for the Book of Common Prayer, the centerpiece of Anglican worship and identity. Links to my sermon found below 👇

@FinallyHuman Of course, and we recite the Creed every Sunday in Mass. I think the problem in the 17th and 18th centuries was a revolt against Councils, Kings, and Emperors. Article 21/39 says councils can error in matters pertaining to God. It spiralled from there.

@vinbanus Yeah but then we had a couple of Councils and a big Creed done which should have made these teachings inadmissible.

Study of Presbyterian churches in Lancashire (1689–1725) found: 61% later became Unitarian, 16% closed or declined, and 23% remained Trinitarian. (Jonathan Howard Westaway, Scottish Influences…, PhD diss., Lancaster Univ., 1996)

@FinallyHuman Unitarian views were not uncommon in the ante-Nicene period. Theodotus of Byzantium and his followers even elected Natalius as a rival Bishop of Rome. In 230, there was Artemon. In 260, Paul of Samosata, the Bishop of Antioch. Beryllus of Bostra and Photinus, Bishop of Sirmium.

@vinbanus Unitarianism seems like such a wild place to end up. It’s almost unfathomable that this was once considered a reasonable thing to believe and teach in a Christian church.

@FinallyHuman Unitarian then and a Unitarian now are different things. Lindsey and Freeman on either side of the Atlantic reformed the 1662 BCP for their worship. King's Chapel in Boston still uses their BCP to the present.

For everyone who is excited about the two 300-foot statues of Lewis and Clark on the MISSOURI River and has asked how it will be funded and where we want it to go, I have created a webpage just for that. Visit here for information on how to donate and get involved! theeagleye.net/lewis-and-clar…

Inscription on the Ship of Solomon: "Thou man which shall enter into this ship, beware thou be in steadfast belief, for I am Faith; and therefore beware how thou enterest, for if thou fail I shall not help thee."

@JonMcK1647 "No one should ever say 'I was baptised', only 'I am baptised'. Baptism is a living vocation. Waters that are stagnant stinketh; waters that flow are sweet." - Bp Paul Thomas of Oswestry

Pope Leo XIV quotes The Lord of the Rings in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ to underscore our collective duty to uproot the evils of our own time.

from Book 1, Stave V Over the head of every knight they saw a tongue of flame alight, and as they gazed around in awe it seemed that each the other saw more fair and comely than before, as though in Heaven’s light. #GalahadandtheGrail

Pentagon: “Possible UFO footage.” OSINT community: “It’s a fucking inflatable Stormtrooper balloon.” Billions in military intelligence, defeated by internet autists with frame-by-frame analysis and free time.

God, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus. Amen