Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Communion
PO Box 128 Statesville, NC 28687
Blog Archive
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
TRUE REST
Two Pictures of Rest.
"Two painters each painted a picture to illustrate his conception of rest. The first chose for his scene still, lone lake among the far-off mountains. The second threw on his canvas a thundering waterfall, with a fragile birch tree bending over the foam ; at the fork of a branch almost wet with the cataract's spray a robin sat on her nest. The first was only Stagnation; the last was Rest. For in Rest there are always two elements—tranquility and energy, silence and turbulence." The Christian Evangel News.
THE FAMILY ALTAR
June 17.
"Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
Matt. 28:19.
Here the only-begotten Son of God who is in the bosom of
the Father declares and formulates the doctrine of the Holy Trinity
in the most solemn manner. He clearly teaches us that there are
three persons in the Godhead, God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Ghost; and yet there are not three Gods, but only
one God. Therefore Christ does not say in the names, but uses
the singular form^ and says in the name. This doctrine of the
Holy Trinity Christ's apostles held and taught at all times, as
their writings clearly show. Paul teaches it when he writes to
the Corinthians, 2 Cor. 13, 14: "The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost
be with you all." When the Unitarians and other sects deny the
doctrine of the Holy Trinity, they place themselves outside the
pale of the Christian Church. If they baptize at all, their baptism
is no Christian Baptism and not valid in the eyes of God; for it
is not admnistered after God's ordinance and command. When
any of these people want to join our church, they must first be
baptized in the name of the Triune God; for Baptism is not
simple water only, not a mere human ritual, but it is a means
of grace by which we are taken into the communion of the blessed
Trinity. In Baptism the name of the Triune God is laid upon us ;
God the Father comes to us as our reconciled Creator, God the
Son as our Redeemer and Savior, God the Holy Ghost as our
Regenerator and Comforter. Is it not sad to think that millions
in our country are born, live, and die without being baptized and
therefore without being made children of God? Let us thank
God for our baptism and at all times comfort ourselves with the
same against all our sins and in all our afflictions.
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
-
In these chapters of Exodus, much ado is made of numbers. God does, or says, nothing by happenstance. The numbers have s...
-
ADDRESS TO GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF THE ANGLICAN ORTHODOX COMMUNION WORLDWIDE - by Bishop Zephaniah Legumana of the AOC - Solomon Isla...
-
L ET not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O Go...