Devotion
Dear Subscriber,
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are unable to continue the weekday Lift Up Your Heart devotionals.
It is our hope that in the future we may be able to resume providing the devotional, or at least, have a series at particular points in the Anglican Liturgical Calendar.
As you will appreciate there has been considerable time and effort involved in producing the devotionals thus far.
Much of that work has been done voluntarily and we want to thank our writers, recorders and translators for providing such a wonderful service over the course of these past months.
We continue to pray that the devotions will have caused you to regularly turn to the Scriptures and seek the counsel of our great God for your daily life.
The Lord be with you.
Archbishop Ben Kwashi
General Secretary
29th January 2021
The author of this homily from the fourth century is unknown, but this gem of spiritual exhortation has survived despite all odds and continues to encourage, edify and strengthen the Christian's life...
28th January 2021
This anonymous second-century homily is among a handful of Christian sermons that have been preserved from the very earliest days of the Christian church. It is bold in its proclamation of salvation...
27th January 2021
This anonymous second-century homily is among a handful of Christian sermons that have been preserved from the very earliest days of the Christian church. It is bold in its proclamation of salvation...
26th January 2021
I am the Good Shepherd; and I know my sheep (that is, I love them) and my sheep know me. It is as if he said plainly: "Those who love me obey me." For those who do not love the truth do not yet know...
25th January 2021
Charity is a right attitude of mind which prefers nothing to the knowledge of God. If a man possesses any strong attachment to the things of this earth, he cannot possess true charity. For anyone who...
22nd January 2021
The Lord himself comes, the Teacher of love, full of love, shortening the word upon the earth, as was foretold of him. He shows that the Law and the Prophets depend on the two precepts of love.
21st January 2021
The Lord Jesus declared that he was giving his disciples a new commandment, that they should love one another. A new commandment, he said, I give you, that you love one another.
20th January 2021
Brethren, let us follow that vocation by which we are called from life to the fountain of life. He is the fountain, not only of living water but of eternal life. He is the fountain of light and...
19th January 2021
The water I shall give him will become in him a fountain of living water, welling up into eternal life. This is a new kind of water, a living, leaping water, welling up for those who are worthy. But...
18th January 2021
The disciples spoke in the language of every nation. At Pentecost God chose this means to indicate the presence of the Holy Spirit: whoever had received the Spirit spoke in every kind of tongue. We...
15th January 2021
Those who have been considered worthy to go forth as the sons of God and to be born again of the Holy Spirit from on high, and who hold within them the Christ who renews them and fills them with...
14th January 2021
Readings: Mark 1: 4-11
As humans, we are always engaged in a series of associations and disassociations. What happens, for instance, when a person is introducing him/herself to another? Well,...
13th January 2021
Reading: 1 John 4: 11-18
Fear is one of the most powerful and dominant emotions in humans. Specialists say that babies start to experience fear at the age of six months, if not earlier. We fear...
12th January 2021
Readings: Jeremiah 30: 1-17
The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity… Jer. 30:3 (NIV-UK).
11th January 2021
Reading: Matthew 20: 1-16
The reading today contains one of Jesus’ most provocative parables. The parable is about a landowner who “...went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard...
8th January 2021
Readings: Matthew 2: 1-12
The story which Matthew narrates in today’s reading is one which we have grown up to hear every year in the Christmas season. Besides being read every Christmas, we also...
7th January 2021
Readings: John 4: 7-26
Today’s reading contains the well-known story of the Samaritan Woman. This incident is amazing in all fronts. By initiating a conversation with the Samaritan Woman, Jesus...
6th January 2021
Readings: Col 3: 12 - 4:1
In the first two and half chapters of the epistle to the Colossians Paul has been reminding them of the gospel; the good news of what God, in Christ, did for humanity. He...