Cranmer’s Collect for the Second Sunday after Easter reminds us of the importance of finding the right motivation for seeking to be more like Jesus. While the Reformers would encourage us to pursue...
Cranmer’s Collect for the Second Sunday after Easter reminds us of his perennial concern to link justification to sanctification. In so doing, he answers the all-important question for Christians:...
Cranmer’s Collect for the Second Sunday after Easter reminds us of his perennial concern to link justification to sanctification. In so doing, he answers the all-important question for Christians:...
During the sixteenth-century religious Reformation, Roman Catholics and Protestant deeply disagreed not only about the nature of salvation (see yesterday’s devotion) but also about its means. And...
Cranmer’s 1549 Collect for the First Sunday after Easter clearly opens up the mystery of Good Friday and Easter Sunday: God “hast given thy only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our...
Cranmer selected John 20:19-23 as the Gospel for the First Sunday after Easter. In this reading, we encounter the strange juxtaposition of Christ’s offer of peace paired with the highlighting of his...
In Cranmer’s Gospel reading for the First Sunday after Easter, we encounter the strange juxtaposition of Christ’s offer of peace paired with the highlighting of his nail-scarred hands and pierced...
Cranmer’s Gospel reading for the First Sunday after Easter continues with the next section of John 20, namely, verses 19-23, the story of Jesus appearing to the disciples in a locked room on the...
The resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth was intended by God to challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the world and about ourselves. Mark aptly captures the immediate painful confusion of his...
Only in the light of Heaven, where the risen Lord Jesus sits at the right hand of God, do we begin truly to understand the human condition. In the immortal words of Thomas Cranmer, we see what we...
The promise of Easter is that the supernatural power that raised Christ from the dead is at work in those united to him by faith to make them more like him. God seeks our best even before we do. God...
Belief transforms behavior. That is the message of Thomas Cranmer’s two Scripture readings for Easter Sunday (John 20:1-10 and Col. 3:1-7). Because we are united to the resurrected Christ in faith,...
For our next series of weekday devotions, we are going to be looking at Cranmer’s collects and readings for Holy Communion on Sundays in the season of Easter. This week we begin with Easter Sunday.
It is not “singing above our heads” for the Rt. Reverend Andudu Adam Elnail and his people in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan to sing “Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee.” It is...
There is a cost to speaking out.
Sharing the Gospel can result in lack of educational or employment opportunities. It can get you beaten, arrested, and even killed.
The expression “drinking from the fire hose” may be over-used and cliché, but when it comes to learning about the global persecution of Christians, it is quite appropriate.
This is my last week to share messages about the Suffering Church with you for your Lenten Devotions. I will focus on the region where the Rt. Reverend Andudu Adam Elnail, the co-leader of our GAFCON...
One of the speakers at the New Wineskins Missions Conference last year was my friend and brother in Christ, Dominic Sputo. Dominic spoke on the night dedicated to the Suffering Church. Author of an...