Monday, 24 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 24

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 24: Read: Luke 1.26-38 This is perhaps the most famous angelic appearance in the Bible, celebrated often in music and in art, where it has...

Saturday, 22 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 22

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 22: Read: Luke 1.5-25 Finally we come to the angels you may have been waiting for, those involved in the Christmas story! The first of...

Friday, 21 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 21

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 21: Read: Matthew 28.1- 8 The accounts of the resurrection vary in detail in each Gospel. Mark has a “young man” announcing the news that ...

Thursday, 20 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 20

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 20: Read: Revelation 8 If yesterday’s angels brought joy, today’s angels bring terror. Despite the images you may see in pictures of a...

Tuesday, 18 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 18

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 18: Read: Revelation 1.17– 2.7 The book of Revelation was written by an early Christian leader, exiled on the island of Patmos, who seems ...

Monday, 17 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 17

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 17: Read: Matthew 18: 1-10 In this passage, Jesus tells his disciples that, though the priorities of the world in which they live don’t ap...

Sunday, 16 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 16

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 16: Read: Acts 12.1-17 After Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, his followers continued to spread his message. The Roman and Jewish author...

Friday, 14 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 14

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 14: Read: Daniel 3 This story is set in Babylon, where the Jewish people had been taken into exile. Three young Jewish men, Shadrach, Mesh...

Thursday, 13 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 13

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 13: Read:  Genesis 21. 8-20   Abraham has been promised that God will give him more descendants than the stars in the sky, but as he has b...

Tuesday, 11 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 11

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 11: Read: Mark 1. 12-13 The story of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, told very briefly in Mark’s Gospel, unlike Matthew and Luke’s ve...

Monday, 10 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 10

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 10: The next group of angels all in some way protect or guide people, so I have called them all Guardian Angels. Read: Numbers22.22-35 ...

Saturday, 8 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 8

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 8: Day 8: Warrior Angels Read Revelation12.7-12 Jewish theology, and the Christian theology which followed it, held that angels had f...

Friday, 7 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 7

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 7: Day 7: Warrior Angels Read: 2 Kings 6.8-23 The king of Aram has been waging war on Israel, but every time he tries to attack, the ...

Thursday, 6 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 6

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 6: Day 6: Warrior Angels Read Genesis 32.22-32 Jacob, who we met a few days ago dreaming of angels ascending and descending from heav...

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 5

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 5: Day 5: Warrior Angels Read : 2 Kings 18.13-16 & 19:35-37 The Assyrian king, Sennacherib, was waging war on the kingdom of Juda...

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 4

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 4: Day 4: Warrior Angels Angels in the Bible are not always gentle, like the ones on the Christmas cards. Angels are sometimes described ...

Monday, 3 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 3

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 3: Day 3: Worshipping Angels Read: Genesis28:10-22 We don’t actually see the angels worshipping specifically in this reading, but we d...

Sunday, 2 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 2

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 2: Day 2: Worshipping Angels Read: Luke 15.8-10 Jesus parables of the lost sheep (Luke 15.1-7), lost coin and prodigal son (15. 11-32...

Saturday, 1 December 2018

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 1

St Peter and St Paul, Seal: Advent Angels 1: Day 1: Worshipping Angels Worshipping Angels We start our series of readings with some stories of angels leading the worship of God....