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28 Jun 2019
A selection of the week's happenings for your prayers.
28 Jun 2019
Torah portion: Numbers 4:21-7:89 Nasso (‘Lift up’) This week’s portion, from the Book of Numbers, continues to stress God’s order in everything. In ancient Israel there were clearly defined roles for the Levites, who were assigned responsibility for each of the parts of the Tabernacle. There was order both in…
21 Jun 2019
A selection of the week's happenings for your prayers. Society & Politics Ex-magistrate Richard Page loses appeal: Page, who was dismissed from his post for privately expressing the opinion that children do best with a mother and a father, has had his claim of religious discrimination rejected. His Christian beliefs…
21 Jun 2019
Torah portion: Exodus 19:1-20:23 Accompanying readings: Numbers 28:26-31; Ezekiel 1:1-12, 3:12 This week’s Torah portion marks the Feast of Shavuot (Weeks), or the start of the wheat harvest, which is celebrated seven weeks (50 days) after Passover. This year it started at sunset on 8 June (the start of 6…
14 Jun 2019
A selection of the week's happenings for your prayers. Society & Politics Call to participate in consultation on home schooling: Christian Concern are encouraging people to respond to the Government’s open consultation on children not in school, which is especially concerned with proposing a register of home-educated children. Read more…
14 Jun 2019
Torah Portion: Numbers 1:1-4:20 Bamidbar (‘In the wilderness’) Bamidbar, ‘In the wilderness’, is an appropriate name for what we know as Numbers, as well as this Torah portion, since the book describes the Lord leading His people for 40 years in the wilderness. It was a time when the Lord…
07 Jun 2019
A selection of the week's happenings for your prayers. Society & Politics Scouts scrap dangerous trans policy: The Scouting Association has scrapped a controversial transgender policy after 18 months of usage, following members saying it put the safety of young people at risk. The policy was developed with the help…
