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Text: 1 John 5:1-16. “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life,” (verse 13). Through this letter of John, the son of Zebedee, God is telling us that we can know with certainty that we have eternal life.[…]
Source: anglicannews.org [ACNS, by Gavin Drake] The Primates of Kenya and All England, Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit and Archbishop Justin Welby, have met at Lambeth Palace in London for fellowship and prayer. During their meeting on Wednesday (16 November), the two leaders spoke about how the Anglican Communion can serve wider society. “In our sharing[…]
Text: 2 Timothy 3:10-17. “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,” (verse 16). The Bible is God-breathed, meaning it is the inspired Word of God. God wrote it through specific people. Note that these people wrote from their own personal, historical and[…]
Source: anglicannews.org [ACNS] Christians across the world are being invited to celebrate the season of Advent through an interactive, multi-lingual online calendar. The website adventword.org goes live on Advent Sunday (27 November) in nine languages including, for the first time, Arabic. It allows people around the globe to create together an advent calendar with images shared[…]
Day: Thursday 17th November, 2016. Text: Jeremiah 31:23-34. “But this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my Law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people,”[…]
Day: Wednesday 16th November, 2016. Text: Deuteronomy 27:1-8. Moses was joined by the elders and the Law that was given at Mount Sinai is now ratified and is to be written on plastered stones verses 2-3. This was part of the practice to write important information on stone in the ancient Near East. Reflect on[…]
Text: Exodus 31:12-18. “And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God,” (verse 18). The Law was written in tablet of stone to indicate the perpetual duration of it. The tablets were written with[…]
[ACNS, by Gavin Drake] The overseas development arm of the Anglican Church of Canada is helping to save the lives of new-born babies in Mozambique through the provision of “solar suitcases.” One nurse in the country reported using the light from a mobile phone held by her mouth to deliver babies born at night in[…]
Text: 2 Peter 1:16-21; Daniel 9: 10. “Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the Will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit,” (verses 20-21). Peter is telling us that the[…]
Text: Deuteronomy 6:1-9. “You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates,” (verse 9). Later this command was practiced literally as the Jews took to wearing phylacteries [Matthew 23:5]. Phylacteries were small leather containers keeping small scrolls on which Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 11:13-21 and Exodus 13:1-10 were written. At some[…]