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: [...]
ELECTION DEFINED BY BISHOP J.C. RYLE (late Bishop of Liverpool), PART II, 6 November 2018 Anno Domini Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide I have firstly to state the doctrine of Election. What is it? What does it mean? Accurate statements on this point are of great importance. No doctrine of Scripture perhaps has suffered so [...]
Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Communion First Sunday in Advent Sunday Report Today was the First Sunday in Advent. This is the first day of the new “liturgical year”[1], a New Year’s Day, so to speak. On Point Someone asked, where do the quotes come from? The answer is from the people who [...]
Sermon Notes 1st Sunday in Advent, 2 December 2018 Anno Domini Anglican Orthodox Church The First Sunday in Advent. The Collect. ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy [...]
BAPTISM, ITS TRUE POSITION IN FAITH, taken from a Tract on Baptism by Bishop J.C. Ryle of the Reformation Church of England, 30 November 2018 Anno Domini ARTICLE XVII, Of Baptism, (the Thirty Nine Articles of Religion) Baptism is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned [...]
WHO TO BE BAPTIZED, Part III from a Tract of Bishop J.C. Ryle on the Fundamentals of Baptism,, Reformation Church of England, 28 November 2018 Anno Domini ARTICLE XVII, Of Baptism, (the Thirty Nine Articles of Religion) Baptism is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned [...]