Don Phillips, Author at Rupert's Land News https://rupertslandnews.ca News from the Diocese of Rupert's Land in the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:11:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/rupertslandnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/solid-blue.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Don Phillips, Author at Rupert's Land News https://rupertslandnews.ca 32 32 62678561 Armour of God? Isn’t Jesus Supposed to be the Prince of Peace? https://rupertslandnews.ca/armour-of-god-prince-of-peace/ https://rupertslandnews.ca/armour-of-god-prince-of-peace/#respond Mon, 09 Jun 2025 07:40:55 +0000 https://rupertslandnews.ca/?p=173023 In the final section of the New Testament Letter to the Ephesians, the author begins with this statement: “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. Put on the whole armour of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”1 Even Christian toy […]

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]]> https://rupertslandnews.ca/armour-of-god-prince-of-peace/feed/ 0 173023 The Challenge: Effectively Describing Jesus Today https://rupertslandnews.ca/the-challenge-effectively-describing-jesus-today/ https://rupertslandnews.ca/the-challenge-effectively-describing-jesus-today/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2025 02:22:40 +0000 https://rupertslandnews.ca/neighbours-helping-neighbours-copy/ Most of us who participate regularly in worship are fairly good at conversing about Jesus Christ. We paraphrase pieces of a Creed, a Catechism, or share a meaningful prayer from one of our prayer books. However, increasingly, the people we rub shoulders with in contemporary living – at work, school, the supermarket, or our next […]

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]]> https://rupertslandnews.ca/the-challenge-effectively-describing-jesus-today/feed/ 0 172857 The Annual Cycle in our lives: What does the New Year mean for us? https://rupertslandnews.ca/the-annual-cycle-in-our-lives-what-does-the-new-year-mean-for-us/ https://rupertslandnews.ca/the-annual-cycle-in-our-lives-what-does-the-new-year-mean-for-us/#respond Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:51:18 +0000 https://rupertslandnews.ca/?p=171020 Some four thousand years ago, Babylonian culture celebrated the new year at the beginning of spring in our contemporary month of March. Since that time, various societies have based their year on the movement of both the moon and the sun.  Europe (along with those countries who trace their roots to European origins) eventually adopted […]

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