Sermon Notes for ROGATION SUNDAY, 6 May 2018 Anno Domini, St. Andrews Parish Church

“Be ye does of the word, and not hearers only…” James 1:22 We of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are truly the sons and daughters of the Almighty God. There are merely two families only – that family of God, and the other which is the family of their father the devil. (John 8:44) [...]

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180429 AOC Sunday Report

Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Communion Fourth Sunday after Easter Sunday Report   This is the Third Fourth after Easter; the Easter season is five Sundays, the last of which, the Fifth Sunday after Easter, is commonly called Rogation Sunday.  Like every day, today we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, “Christ the Lord IS Risen today!” [...]

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A GREAT HYMN-WRITER and Minister of the Past, a Devotion for 1 May (May Day), 2018 Anno Domini

“And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” (Revelation 14:13: all scripture quoted is from the King James Version)   HORATIUS BONAR – the [...]

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Sermon Notes: 4th Sunday after Easter, St Andrews Anglican Orthodox Church, 29 April 2018 Anno Domini

“ These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But [...]

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PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS, a Devotion for 27 April 2018 Anno Domini

“The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” (Jeremiah 31:3; all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) I will begin this devotion with a story: “The BEE has been aptly described as “busy.” To produce one [...]

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WHY HYMNS FOR WORSHIP, a Devotion for 25 April 2018 Anno Domini

“And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.” Matthew 26:30, Mark 14:26 KJV Have you considered the difference between the ancient and classical hymns of the Church and the light and often frivolous ‘kum –bah-yah’ songs of the modern Church? Do you not feel a spiritual difference when [...]

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SHEPHERD OF SOULS, a Hymn Devotion for 3rd Week after Easter, 24 April 2018 Anno Domini

“It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” (Luke 4:4: all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) “I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that [...]

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HIGH PRIEST; a Devotion for 18 April 2018 Anno Domini

“So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Who in the days of his flesh, when he [...]

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SOPHIA, a Devotion for 26 April 2018 Anno Domini

Personification of Wisdom (Σοφία, Sophía) at the Celsus Library in Ephesus (2nd century). “My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, [...]

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180422 AOC Sunday Report

Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Communion Third Sunday after Easter Sunday Report This is the Third Sunday after Easter; the Easter season is five Sundays, the last of which, the Fifth Sunday after Easter, is commonly called Rogation Sunday. Like every day, today we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, “Christ the Lord IS Risen today!” On [...]

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