Second, a prayer of confession:Merciful God, we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart. We have failed to be an obedient church. We have not done your will, we have broken your law, we have rebelled against your love, we have not loved our neighbors,and we have no...
For us to be a joyful people, then, means reconnecting with the life of the Spirit – the Holy Spirit who showed us we were sinners but who also revealed to us the forgiving love of God in Christ; the Holy Spirit who graciously makes us more like Jesus as we open ourselves to him, ...
In addition, all victory prayer meetings were held in churches throughout the Japan, and offerings were made (Ogawara 2010, pp. 177–78). Two months later, on 9 April 1904, the article “My Anti-war Argument” by Shiraishi Kinosuke (白石喜之助) in the editorial column of Gokyō (No....