Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide The Third Sunday in Advent. The Collect. O LORD Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient [...]
SURPISED BY GOODNESS, a devotion for 14 December 2018 Anno Domini 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. Heb 13:1-3 (KJV) [...]
THE REAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST, PART III by J.C. Ryle, late Bishop of Liverpool 14 December 2018 Anno Domini, the Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide The last point which I propose to consider is the real bodily presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. Where is it? What ought we to think about it? What ought [...]
THE REAL SPIRITUAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST Part II, by J.C. Ryle, Late Bishop of Liverpool 13 December 2018 Anno Domini. The Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide NOTE: This is the second part of a three part series by Bishop Ryle (May 10, 1816 to June 10, 1900) on the Presence of Christ to the Christian. [...]
THE REAL PRESENCE: WHAT IS IT? by J.C. Ryle, late Bishop of Liverpool. 12 December 2018 Anno Domini, The Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide “If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.”—Exodus xxxiii. 15. THERE is a word in the text that heads this page which demands the attention of all English [...]
SERMON NOTES FOR ORDINATION: The Great Commission, Sunday, 9 December 2018 Anno Domini, St. George Anglican Church (AOC), Ventura, California. (2nd Sunday in Advent) The Gospel text today counsels His minister and indeed all Christian people to be watchful and ready. We are to keep our lights burning – and lights cannot be hidden from [...]
WATCHMAN TELL US OF THE NIGHT, an Advent Hymn Devotion (440), 11 December 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night.” Isaiah 21:11-12 (KJV) The Advent Season is filled with mystic wonder and [...]
WILL THERE BE ANY STARS IN MY CROWN, a Hymn Devotion for 4 December 2018 Anno Domini Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide (in First Week of Advent) This little Gospel song is the work of Mrs. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds) in 1897. It is a dreamy little ballad fit for both adult [...]
ELECTION BY BISHOP J.C. RYLE, PART III, Guarding Against Abuse of the Doctrine, 7 December 2018 Anno Domini (Pearl Harbor Day) The Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide This is a branch of the subject which I hold to be of vast importance. All revealed truth is liable to be wrested and perverted. It is one [...]
BISHOP J.C. RYLE ON ELECTION, first in a series of three works on Election and its meaning in the Faith and doctrine of the Reformation Church of England, 5 December 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide PREFACE: There is a looming question that haunts every school of theology, and that question is: [...]