Bible Studies and Reflections > Anglican Overseas Aid

Home Bible Studies and Reflections

Bible Studies and Reflections (15 posts found)

Read more

Theology of Disaster Resilience Bible studies

1 month ago

The countries where we work are some of the most vulnerable in the world. This is especially the case in the Pacific, which is highly prone to natural disasters. The question of why disasters happen has plagued people of faith for thousands of years. A part...

Read more

2019 Advent Reflections

1 month ago

Our 2019 Advent Reflections are available! This year we have endeavoured to go a bit deeper and push past the popular veneer of Advent. Sentimental reminiscing about the baby Jesus does not, in our view, do the season justice. This is because the impli...

Read more

2019 Lenten Reflection

11 months ago

Our 2019 Lenten Reflections have arrived and are available! This year we have called the Lenten Reflection An Armchair Pilgrimage to encourage us all to take time out of our usual routine to go on a journey, a pilgrimage, in the lead up to this deeply ...

Read more

2018 Advent Reflection

1 year ago

Our 2018 Advent Reflections have arrived and are available! This year we have focused on what Advent and the Christmas story mean within our Australian context. Our Australian culture and experience inevitably impacts our understanding and how we c...

Read more

Blessed are the pure in heart

2 years ago

As part of Common Grace's Lenten 2018 reflection series, our CEO, Bob Mitchell, explored how, when we turn to God, and put our trust in him, his grace makes us pure and we are invited into a new way of relating with God. Throughout Scripture we see God reveal...

Read more

Bible Study: Preparing for difficult times

2 years ago

BIBLE READING Read Genesis 41 BACKGROUND Anglican Overseas Aid is increasingly involved in preparing for disasters. This includes making sure that when disasters occur, the risk of harm is reduced and the people affected are able to cope in...

Read more

Order your Lenten reflection booklets now

2 years ago

In 2018 we are producing our annual Lenten reflection booklets again. Ideal as a personal reflection, small group study guide, or whole of church resource, these booklets are again FREE to any person or church that requests them. Our focus for this year'...

Read more

Bible Study: Restoring dignity to everyone

2 years ago

BIBLE READING Read Mark 5:24-34 BACKGROUND When looking at the stories of Jesus in the gospels, we see that he always treated people according to their circumstances. He never actually operated according to a formula. Some people he healed away from the...

Read more

Bible Study: “…I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”

3 years ago

Our 2015/16 Annual Report features, on its cover, the Anglican Overseas Aid motto, ‘Life. Abundantly. For All.’ The motto is drawn from St John’s Gospel, so we thought that it would be good to understand it a little deeper. This statement from Jesus comes i...

Read more

2017 Lenten Reflection: Giving Up, Taking Up

3 years ago

Lent is the season in the Christian calendar when the focus turns to simple living, prayer, self-examination, and fasting in preparation for Easter. People often talk of ‘giving something up for Lent’ which is a part of its rich tradition of self-sacrifice ...

Read more

Prepare: An Advent Reflection

3 years ago

This year we are again producing our very popular Advent booklets. Once again, we are following the traditional themes of Advent: hope, love, joy and peace. This year we have invited reflective input and images from our overseas partners as we seek to share...

Read more

Toward Christmas: An Advent Reflection

3 years ago

In the run-up to Christmas 2015, we produced a FREE pocket-sized Advent reflections booklet called Toward Christmas: An Advent Reflection. The booklet was hugely popular, and we no longer have paper copies available, but you can download a pdf copy. Based o...

Read more

Bible Study: Thy Kingdom Come… on Earth

3 years ago

The kingdom of God is mentioned more than 100 times in the gospels. It is what Jesus spent most of his time talking about. But Jesus never actually defined the kingdom of God. When he talked about it he spoke in parables, often using analogies, saying, “it ...

Read more

Toward Easter: A Lenten reflection

4 years ago

For the 2016 Lent season, we have produced a FREE pocket-sized Lenten reflections booklet called Toward Easter: A Lenten Reflection. The booklet is not specific to the year 2016, and will still be available for future years, until stocks run out. Based on t...

Read more

Bible Study: Helping in hard places

4 years ago

In June 2015, we wrote the following bible study that linked to our End of Financial Year Appeal theme, Helping in Hard Places. Exploring how Jesus often when to the 'margins' to serve the people that nobody else cared about, this study is also a challenge to ...