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 [...]

BAPTISM, ITS MODE, by Bishop J.C. Ryle for 22 November 2018 Anno Domini (Thanksgiving, USA) The Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide   This devotion is an excerpt from Bishop J.C. Ryle’s work entitled, KNOTS UNTIED. It is the first in a series of commentary on Baptism. The first was the Nature of Baptism, and today’s commentary [...]

Anglican Orthodox Church OFFICE OF THE PRESIDING BISHOP PO Box 128 Statesville, N.C. 28687 BISHOP’S THANKSGIVING LETTER (in the Year of our Lord the 2018th) “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [...]

BAPTISM, ITS NATURE; a Devotion by Bishop J.C. Ryle, 21 November 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide This devotion is an excerpt from Bishop J.C. Ryle’s work entitled, KNOTS UNTIED. It is the first in a series of commentary on Baptism KNOTS UNTIED. BEING PLAIN STATEMENTS   ON DISPUTED POINTS IN RELIGION, FROM [...]