The 9 th best-selling book of all time was first published in 1897- In His Steps: What would Jesus do? by Charles Sheldon. It is a novel about a pastor who challenges his congregation to go a whole year without making a decision where what Jesus would do was their first consideration, and the things [...]
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In His Steps: What would Jesus do?
Posted in Behaviour, Beliefs, Books, Religion, tagged Charles Sheldon, Christianity, In His Steps: What would Jesus do? on December 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Mow Cop & Methodism
Posted in Architecture, Beliefs, History, tagged Cheshire, Christianity, Mow Cop, Primitive Methodism, Staffordshire on December 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
At a high point on the Staffordshire-Cheshire border in England stands Mow Cop Castle, a summer house folly built in 1754, and the site of the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement. In 1807 Hugh Bourne and William Clowes held a 14 hour prayer camp meeting there and this became the Primitive Methodist Church: TO [...]
Ingoodfaith- the Christmas posts
Posted in Beliefs, Festivals, Tradition, tagged Christianity, Christmas, Winter Festival on December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Good King Wenceslas Las Posadas Nikolaos the Wonderworker Christmas at Fezziwig’s from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Winter Solstice Armenian Christmas Christmas tree politics Yule Tree Epiphany Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away- like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. [...]
Open Letter from the Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral
Posted in Corporate interests, Current events, Finances, Historic Buildings, Human Rights, Poverty, Protest, tagged Christianity, Occupy the London Stock Exchange, Saint Paul's Cathedral on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To the protestors of Occupy the London Stock Exchange: It seems a very long time since you arrived here last weekend. I am very grateful indeed to you for the peaceful nature of your protest. You know that many people around the world, including many Christians, identify with the injustices and inequalities which you believe [...]
St. James the Great Day
Posted in Art, Beliefs, Festivals, tagged Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, Saint James the Greater on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the Saints’ Day of James, son of Zebedee and Salome, brother of John, in the Orthodox Church, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, and the only apostle whose martyrdom is recorded in the gospel: Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain [...]
Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Posted in Ancient World, Beliefs, People, Religion, Tradition, tagged Christianity, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ge'ez language, Othodox Tewahedo Church on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the East African Republics of Eritrea and Ethiopia, the main religion is an independent Eastern Christianity originating from the 4 th century in the North-east Axum Empire of African trade countries. The Tewahedo Bible, written in the otherwise extinct ancient Southern Semitic Ge’ez language contains 81 books originating from the Septuagint, Ethiopia was one of the [...]
Ash Wednesday
Posted in Beliefs, Prayer & meditation, tagged Ash Wednesday, Christianity, Lent on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
That day they fasted and wore sackcloth; they sprinkled ashes on their heads and tore their clothes. ~ 1 Maccabees 3:47 ( Septuagint ) Today is Ash Wednesday marked by the imposition of ashes made from burning last year’s palm crosses, penitence and confession of sins in some Christian denominations. It marks the first day of [...]
Candlemas:the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
Posted in Festivals, Liturgy, Religion, tagged Candlemas, Christianity, Judaism, Presentation of Jesus at the temple on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
2 nd February traditionally marks the end of epiphany in the Christian calendar with a feast day commemorating when Mary and Joseph take the baby Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem as part of Mary’s ritual cleansing after childbirth. Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was [...]
Three Kings
Posted in Festivals, Religion, tagged Christianity, Magi, Three Kings on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.” When King Herod heard this, he was greatly troubled, and [...]
Papyrus 46
Posted in Books, History, Religion, tagged Chester Beatty Library, Christianity, Old Testament, Papyrus 46, University of Michigan Library on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
46 is one of the oldest surviving copies of the Greek New Testament, dating back @ 1800 years and containing some of the New Testament. It is badly damaged in places and missing Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, parts of Romans, and the endings of most pages through age and wear. Some of the [...]
