Bible sunday sermon

Neil Rees

Every year at the end of October, Bible Sunday is held in many churches across the world. This is the story... 

History of Bible Sunday

On Bible Sunday there is a focus on the Bible, and the collection may go to the Bible Society.

It has not always been that Sunday, and although the Bible Society movement dates back to 1804, Bible Sunday is much older.

The practice of preaching from a set of prescribed readings, called a lectionary, dates back to Jewish synagogues.

Early Christians followed this idea. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer created the one-year readings for the Church of England, called the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. This was revised over the years, particularly in 1662.

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There were set verses for each Sunday and a special prayer called a Collect. The Collect for the second Sunday in Advent was a Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Holy Scriptures. It was based upon the first line of the epistle set for that day which is Romans 15:4: "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patienc

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