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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

21st October 2020
Martin Luther struck a great balance when he spoke of God’s will for government and also of God’s control of government. He said that human government “is not of men; otherwise it would not be safe...
20th October 2020
My wife came from a very faithful Christian home and I came from a very nominal one. Once on a Sunday, (since we had started going out), I asked her – in earshot of her father – if she would like to...
19th October 2020
I once read of a scene at an airport where everything was in chaos. Some flights had been cancelled, others were delayed and customers were in uproar. In the middle of all this one stewardess was...
16th October 2020
In the church where I served for many years, we had a very loveable caretaker who was a ‘recovered’ alcoholic. He lived in a tiny flat and I remember organising a holiday for him on the central coast...
15th October 2020
The Sydney evangelist John Chapman (1930-2012) had a wonderful way of making profound truths simple and memorable. He told of being offered a cup of white tea with two sugars when he preferred black...
14th October 2020
When a family goes on holidays and children are piled into the back seat you know that those children don’t really contribute to the security of the journey. They are not deciding where to go, or...
13th October 2020
One of the questions that pastors are often asked is something like ‘why would I want to be good, if the sins of my life were all forgiven? Wouldn’t the natural thing be to sin some more? Aren’t you...
12th October 2020
Some years ago, I was given a book of daily readings by CS Lewis and was quite shocked to find that the subject of ‘pride’ came up day after day. I would have thought a day or two on the subject...
9th October 2020
In one of his final books John Stott wrote of the need to learn dependence. It sounds strange in a world that prizes independence and hammers away the need to “believe in yourself”. But Stott was...
8th October 2020
Have you noticed that the two great lies in Genesis 3 – you can do what you like and nothing will come of it – continue to thunder down the world? The non-Christian world wants to be able to do...
7th October 2020
When are we in most danger? Is it when everything goes wrong and we are in danger of doubting God’s commitment to us? Or is it when everything goes well and we are in danger of ignoring God’s Word to...
6th October 2020
It is a wonderful thing to have a friend who will care about you, keep up with you, provide for you and even protect you. “There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” says the Proverb (18:24...
5th October 2020
People who work in radio (especially talk-back radio) claim that it’s more personal than television because it requires careful listening not just careless watching. Married men like me know how...
2nd October 2020
You may notice that many of the psalms begin with trouble and end with praise. Would that our own troubles ended so quickly and turned to praise. If we are reading such a psalm with God’s people, we...
1st October 2020
I don’t know if you’ve tried to get onside with someone – into their good books – but I guess I’ve tried everything from avoiding tricky subjects to (feebly) agreeing with all someone says and even...
30th September 2020
The biblical world is an hierarchical place. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void.” Where did the heavenly world go ? The Book of Genesis...
29th September 2020
Angels appear at the oddest times and places. One of those places comes in a single verse, where Jesus says to His disciples: "See that you do not despise one of these little ones [children]. For I...
28th September 2020
At the Sursum Corda (“lifting up of hearts”) of the Prayer Book service of Holy Communion, the priest invites the people to join in a heavenly chorus: Therefore with Angels and Archangels and all the...

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