Emmaus Anglican Church

02/28/2022

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. Lent's purpose is to prepare us for Easter through a 40 Day season dedicated to prayer, Scripture reading and study, fasting, and almsgiving.

06/16/2020

Important letter and perspective and call.

Anglican Church in North America

06/15/2020

Anglican Church in North America

03/13/2020

C. S. Lewis’ words are just as relevant today as they were seven decades ago.

03/03/2020

Good food for thought.

When I die, please don't call my burial service a Celebration of Life. Don't get me wrong, I hope that people will want to celebrate my life. I just don't want this to replace my Christian burial. I want to be buried according to the rites of a Christian. I want to be one more brother

01/30/2020

We first enter through the bright red doors of an Anglican church, a pr***en and two teenagers in tow. Questions permeate my thoughts, how will our children endure this shift, especially at this stage of their spiritual development? Is this even the right choice for our family? We have all grown up....

11/01/2019

From Archbishop Foley Beach

In his October letter to the family of faithful Global Anglicans, the Chairman brings his greetings from Wittenberg and celebrates 502 years since the Reformation. He focuses on the new Church of Confessing Anglicans Aotearoa, New Zealand (CCAANZ) and the consecration of their first bishop, Jay Beha...

08/27/2019

When someone visits an Anglican church, if they are new to our tradition, they often ask "What do Anglicans believe?" As you can imagine, it is not that easy to summarize the doctrinal beliefs of a global communion with a long history, and various schools of thought and practice. Nevertheless, here....

08/09/2019

Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Anglican Church in North America:

I am writing to you on behalf of Archbishop Foley, our Primate, who is on vacation and sabbath time until September. He has asked me in my role as Dean of the Province to serve in an interim capacity for him. Together with our Deans (+Guernsey, +Atwood, and +Allen), we are working with our excellent provincial staff to address needs as they arise. It is in this capacity that we have felt led of the Lord to offer some words of sympathy, prayer, and direction as two cities in the U.S. where we have churches have experienced horrible tragedy.

Our hearts are saddened and grieved by the devastating shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. To all of our brothers and sisters in these cities, we offer our deepest condolences and prayers for your communities. Thankfully, to our knowledge so far, none of our Anglican Church in North America brothers and sisters were directly affected. Even so, there are some things that we can do:

First, keep praying for the victims and their families. I know many of us have already begun to do this in our worship. Yet, the emotional, physical, and spiritual collateral damage from the slaughter of innocent people is far reaching. Let us continue to remember the survivors in these suffering families before the Lord.

Second, those of us in the immediate vicinities can seek ways to offer the compassion of Christ. We give thanks for the churches that we have heard from that are offering pastoral support and grief counseling. One act of mercy many of us can do no matter where we live is to give blood.

Third, pray for God to give our political leaders His wisdom. Ask for their responses to be what will restrain evil without making good people more vulnerable to wickedness (Romans 13:3).

Four, allow the Holy Spirit to create a greater passion in our lives to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ to change hearts and lives. The Prophet Jeremiah says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” (17:9). The same prophet said, “I will give them a heart to know Me . . . for they will return to Me with their whole heart” (24:7). Only our God can change a human heart from evil to a heart filled with the Holy Spirit. St. Paul wrote these words, “If anyone is in Christ he is a new creature” (2 Cor. 5:17). He would know; he was once a murderer before he met Christ.

We have Good News for sad times. Jesus Christ “came not for the righteous but sinners” (Mark 2:17). Our Lord can turn hearts from hate to love. But we must witness to the transforming love of Jesus Christ more than ever before. How will people hear if we do not go?

May the Lord use the Anglican Church in North America to reach our hurting cities with the healing light of Jesus’ presence!

In Christ,

+Ray Sutton
Dean of the Anglican Church in North America

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