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
11th October 2021
We come now to the final section of John’s opening prologue. In verse 15 we hear part of John the Baptist’s testimony to Jesus. He simply testifies to the surpassing greatness of Jesus and hints that...
8th October 2021
“The word became flesh and dwelt amongst us and we beheld his glory.”
There is no transfiguration scene in John’s Gospel. This is because the glory of Jesus is glimpsed throughout Jesus’ whole...
7th October 2021
“I’d like to see that in the flesh!” The phrase ‘in the flesh’ is used to describe seeing something live, as it actually is, rather than being told about it or seeing it on screen. Seeing people ‘in...
6th October 2021
What’s your story? Let me tell you one of mine.
When I was a very young child, I lived in a mining town that had a lot of shops that sold exotic looking rock specimens. One day I saw one that I...
5th October 2021
How do you view the world? What story do you tell of the world around you? Different people, different cultures have different stories about the world.
4th October 2021
I once read a book produced for a charity called ‘My God’. It was a series of short responses by various celebrities talking about who they thought God was. The book was a mix of the occasional...
1st October 2021
This is a majestic and memorable beginning to the Gospel. It introduces a title for Jesus that is unique to John’s Gospel. The Word is a title that speaks volumes for John’s understanding of Jesus....
30th September 2021
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do men light a lamp only to put it under a bushel basket; they put it on a stand where it gives light to all in the house.
29th September 2021
Dear brethren, God's love is calling us to the joys of eternal happiness for the salvation of our souls.
28th September 2021
Let us sing "Alleluia" here below while we are anxious, so that we may sing it one day there above when we are freed for care. Why are we troubled here? Do you not expect me to be troubled when I...
27th September 2021
Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints. We are told to sing to the Lord a new song. A new man knows a new song. A song is a thing of joy and if we think carefully...
24th September 2021
Praise the Lord with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! Sing to him a new song.
23rd September 2021
The time arrived for me to give my name for baptism, so we left the country and moved back to Milan. Alypius had decided to join me in being reborn in you, O Lord, and was already clothed with the...
22nd September 2021
What is more pleasing than the psalms? David himself expressed it so beautifully when he said: Praise the Lord! How good it is to sing psalms to our God! How pleasant to praise him! And this is...
21st September 2021
God's splendor is the source of life; those who see him share his life. Because he was beyond the reach of man's mind, incomprehensible and invisible, he made himself visible, intelligible and...
20th September 2021
There is one God, who by the Word and Wisdom created and arranged all things. But God’s Word is our Lord Jesus Christ, who in these last times was made a man among men, that he might join the end to...
17th September 2021
Bodily health is a good thing, but what is truly blessed is not only to know how to keep one’s health but actually to be healthy. If someone praises health but then goes and eats food that makes him...
16th September 2021
Blessed are those who possess a pure heart, for they shall see God. This promise of God is so great that it transcends the utmost limits of beatitude.