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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

LO! HE COMES AN INFANT STRANGER, an Advent Hymn Devotion for 27 November 2018 Anno Domini, the Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide   “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a [...]