Saturday, July 19, 2008

X Pentecost

Let Us Pray For...
Kentucky Chapter, AAC
Mrs. Betty Lee Payne

Southern Ohio Chapter, AAC
Mr. Andy Figueroa

Northern Ohio Chapter, AAC


Special Prayer Petitions
“Please pray for the Lord to bless and prosper the new Anglican churches in Kentucky, that their rectors and congregations may glorify Him in all that they do. We also ask for clear direction for the AAC-KY.”



From the Scriptures
For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

I Corinthians 10:1-13 (ESV)



A Guiding Prayer
Grant to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as are right; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

“The Ninth Sunday after Trinity,” The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)



A Heritage Reflection
“Reason increases and enlarges human understanding of divine revelation through its own workings, so long as reason is used in humble dependence upon the God who gave it.”

Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey (1904-1988)
The Anglican Spirit

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