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  • Women need educating too!

    bible open before us – but generally we can be assured that those who teach us are leading us into truth How can we be confident that they are rightly handling the Word of truth? contact with women serving in churches, some as paid Women’s Workers, some as unpaid Ministry Wives, as well Flourish is that as women learn they will gain biblical confidence, will rightly handle the word of truth

  • How do Sydney Anglicans answer the 'lawyer's question'?

    But of course, I can’t say to Rinzi from Nepal, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed’ (James 2:16). But Jesus then tells a parable in which a foreigner - a Samaritan - spends himself on behalf of a needy Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.’ (1 John 3:17-18). They are indeed loving with actions and in truth - sharing their bread with the hungry, caring for the

  • Prayer

    You can tell it to buy more milk. You can demand that it tell you a joke about milk or settle an argument over which animals can actually Each of the images holds something of the truth. When Jesus invites us to pray he doesn’t tell us tune in to the radio or suggest we upgrade to a smart-speaker

  • Psalm Enchanted Evening

    We should view the Psalms as that corporate alarm bell that God is sounding. We tell one another of this call-up and of our collective response. We worship God both in spirit and in truth, allowing the Holy Spirit's breath to fill our lungs and fuel Well, there's the same challenge with singing the Psalms: sure, ''let's do it'' - and ''let's fall in

  • Unity in the body of Christ

    But as with all our bible reading, it serves us well to step back from this perhaps familiar verse and not been added – for this verse is part of a letter which not only commands effort to to be made but tells “Instead, speaking the truth in live, we will in all thing grow up into him who is the head, that is, It is in the verses that are sandwiched by these truths that we discover how this might happen – and

  • Anglican Resources for the Latin American Church

    Given their own commitment to provide resources grounded in "biblical Truth for today's Anglican Church Spanish-language translations of Latimer Trust materials now sell as inexpensive eBooks but not everyone

  • The Focus of our Sunday Schools

    From my observations of very well prepared, very engaging, and thoroughly biblical lessons the main thing Yes, they knew more stories and Bible truths but when I spoke to the children after each lesson it was children’s ministry leaders I would often illustrate this point by getting them to retell a simple, well beginning, whatever the story was, David and Goliath, Moses in the basket etc. people would always tell

  • Augustine on Preaching

    First, Augustine reminds why we should seek skill in speaking the truth: “Since rhetoric is used to give conviction to both truth and falsehood, who could dare to maintain that truth, which depends on us for expound falsehoods in descriptions that are succinct, lucid, and convincing, while we would expound the truth listeners, cloud their understanding, and stifle their desire to believe; that they would assail the truth false” On Christian Teaching Book IV.ii (Oxford’s World Classics p. 101) Augustine does not believe the truth

  • Anger, the exploding emotion

    Here are five truths to remind yourself when tempted to lash out in anger, with quotes from the Homilies In mercy, God has rescued us from death and hell. In mercy, he has made us his own children. When offended against, we do well to remind ourselves that we too struggle with sin. 3. The truth is that God is involved even in the nitty-gritty of our lives, even when others offend against

  • Joy in a pandemic

    can successfully ignore this reality most of the time – we can’t now (although even with the death toll Yet the Bible tells us constantly not to be afraid, not to worry; instead, to rejoice. How? suffering does gives us perseverance, which is part of becoming a mature and wise human being, as James tells now more than ever that we have time daily in Scripture, to remind and convince ourselves of these truths

  • He descended into...

    some of the articles, I’m not intending to do a systematic exposition of them– for that we are very well 19 and 21, seeing that ‘councils err’, and the call that gives to faithful Anglicans to stand on the truths , that he went down into Hell. We are to believe that Christ descended to hell. This is an idea with an ancient provenance. For example, in the apostle’s creed in its traditional version we read: He descended into hell.

  • Christian Leaders Need the Gospel

    That is the truth.” (Matt. 20:30-34). Writing to the Thessalonians Paul’s tells them that they are his hope and glory and joy on the day Christ

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