How to Find Treasures in the Bible
“I first encountered Jesus through reading the Bible,” Nicky Gumbel writes in today’s Bible in One Year. “Ever since, I have read it practically every day of my life. Yet, I am constantly seeing and discovering new things.”
Immanuel Kant stated, “The Bible is an inexhaustible source of all truth. The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing to mankind.”
St Gregory the Great said that “Scripture grows with its readers”. As Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa explains, “It reveals new meanings according to the questions people have in their hearts as they read it.”
The Bible is full of inexhaustible treasure for you to read and digest, and through which you can encounter God.
Bible in One Year Day 170: How to Find Treasures in the Bible (Psalm 75:1-10, Acts 13:13-41, 1 Kings 6:1-7:22)
West Ham Fixtures 2022/23
West Ham will start the campaign on 7 August with a home fixture against Premier League champions Manchester City, then face a tough away test against newly promoted side Nottingham Forest, and in their second home game will welcome their bogey team Brighton which the Hammers still have to beat in the Premier League. This doesn’t look like an easy start into the new season for me!
Of course, all the Premier League fixtures, which have come out on Thursday morning, are subject to change as due to TV broadcasting and European games matches will be shifted.
The UK broadcast selections for the early match rounds are due to be completed by 5 July, with October’s broadcast selections to follow by 29 July; November’s by 13 September; December’s and January’s by 11 October; February’s by 6 December; March’s by 25 January; April’s by 21 February; Match Round 35’s by 23 March; Match Round 36’s by 30 March; Match Round 37’s by 7 April; and the final Match Round’s after each club has played 37 games.
Lange Nacht der Kirchen 2022
Come Together
After four wonderful days of celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Her Majesty gave the nation the most moving of finales with a surprise appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
The Queen had been forced to miss the events of the previous two days, but a woman who has never let her country down in 70 years was not about to do so now. Her Majesty stepped out onto the balcony of Buckingham Palace to greet the crowd and listen to the National Anthem which concluded the Platinum Jubilee Pageant. She described the scene in front of her as “fabulous”, telling her family: “Oh my goodness, oh look at this.”
Yet for all the pomp, pageantry and pyrotechnics seen in the capital since Thursday, it would surely have been the pictures of thousands of street parties up and down the nation that gave Her Majesty the most pleasure as they fostered friendships and created bonds that will long outlast the bunting.
More than 85,000 Big Jubilee Lunches were held around the country, on top of thousands more that took place on previous days, including a half-mile-long picnic table along Windsor’s Long Walk, where the Earl and Countess of Wessex joined around 3,000 people braving chilly weather to tuck into sandwiches and cake.
A renewed sense of togetherness
In an address released on the last day of this brilliant, unforgettable and very British four-day-celebration of Her Majesty’s 70 year reign, the monarch said:
“I have been inspired by the kindness, joy and kinship that has been so evident in recent days, and I hope this renewed sense of togetherness will be felt for many years to come.
“I thank you most sincerely for your good wishes and for the part you have all played in these happy celebrations.”
From Trooping the Colour to the Pageant, the “United Kingdom” has really united for a wonderful four day show of respect and warmth towards Her Majesty, coming together to show the nation at its best. “The country has been brought together after a traumatic few years, and it has been great to witness,” concluded political blogger and radio presenter Iain Dale on Sunday evening.
“I genuinely don’t think any other nation on this earth could have pulled off the spectacle of the last four days,“ Dale writes.
“We do pomp well, and let’s just rejoice in that. But it wasn’t all pomp. It was also in large part community circumstance. Communities around the country came together in a way they haven’t been able to for two years.“
So let’s hope that this renewed sense of togetherness will really be something to be “felt for many years to come.“ That would be the perfect way to remember these days of celebrating, and just the way Elizabeth II wanted it.
▶️ Review of four days Platinum Jubilee celebrations (The Telegraph)
The Queen‘s Faith
The Queen’s faith has enabled her to be a constant strength and comfort of the nation
Stephen Cotrell in The Telegraph digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/990/reader/reader.html
Amid all the pomp, pageantry and pleasure the Platinum Jubilee brings, it is easy to forget that at its heart, the Coronation of 69 years ago was a religious event. And while television cameras may have been granted access to Westminster Abbey, one moment was hidden from public view. Her Majesty was anointed with oil and afforded a time of stillness and reflection before God. She was also given a Bible by the Archbishop of Canterbury and reminded that scripture is “the most valuable thing this world affords”.
Geoffrey Fisher was the archbishop at the time. He came alongside Her Majesty as she prepared for the spiritual journey that lay ahead. One of the treasures in the Lambeth Palace library is the book of devotions, which he presented to Her Majesty all those years ago. It includes prayers, passages of scripture and daily meditations.
For Her Majesty, the Coronation was an intimate encounter between a monarch and her God, a moment where the Queen would be called by name and given a lifelong vocation. It marked a moment where her personal relationship with Christ met the national events and public moments that remind us that this country, its laws and customs and culture, is shaped by the Christian faith.
The Queen’s Christmas addresses have long been a powerful and public example of this faith in our national life. They show how faith in Christ informs and sustains the values of duty, service, honour and sacrifice we so rightly commend this Jubilee.
It is the lens through which she has viewed the world.
Invoking the parable of the Good Samaritan in her Christmas address in 1989, she said: “Our neighbours are those of our friends, or complete strangers, who need a helping hand. Do you think they might also be some of the living species threatened by spoiled rivers, or some of the children in places like Ethiopia and Sudan who don’t have enough to eat?” And, referencing the same story in 1985, she concluded her address by saying that “the story of the Good Samaritan reminds us of our duty to our neighbour. We should try to follow Christ’s clear instruction at the end of that story: ‘Go and do thou likewise’.”
As Supreme Governor of the Church of England, when addressing General Synod the Queen has often spoken about the “ministry of reconciliation” to which Christians are called. She has lived that ministry out in a most remarkable way. In 2012, the Queen famously shook hands with Martin McGuinness, despite the long and painful history and her beloved uncle’s death at the hands of the IRA in 1979.
Platinum Jubilee Concert
Performers eclipsed by the real star of Party at the Palace: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61691432
Bowen debut against Hungary
Jarrod Bowen is set to be given his England debut in Saturday’s Nations League clash against Hungary.
He trained in an attack alongside Harry Kane in Gareth Southgate’s final training sessions before the squad flew to Budapest for their Group Three opener.
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