Anglican Down Under: Sacred and Spiritual Links

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Tuesday 17th March

From a UK correspondent:

Somewhat late due to family commitments including my parents' 63rd wedding anniversary which we celebrated today along with Mothering Sunday.

#1 Vaughan Roberts has a remarkable overview of the Bible. Please pray for Vanuatu wrecked by cyclone damage and for Pakistan where Anglican and Catholic churches have been bombed today.

I hope all is well and prayers for you during the coming week.

SERMONS AND TALKS

1. God's Big Picture: an overview of the Bible, showing how the different parts of the Bible fit together under the theme of the kingdom of God - Vaughan Roberts - St Andrew's Oxford Audio

http://tinyurl.com/lozpbmt

2. What does the Bible really teach? - Hugh Palmer - All Souls Langham Place Audio

http://tinyurl.com/lqwbcsk

3. Values for money: morality and financial markets after the crisis - Donald Hay - St Andrew's Oxford Audio

http://tinyurl.com/mopz7z4

Commentary

4. The Sunday Readings - Rev Stephen Trott

https://laworgospel.wordpress.com/

5. Preaching Ideas and Commentary - Rev Peter Carrell

http://preachingdownunder.blogspot.co.nz/

6. Continue reading the New Testament in a year with Rev Andrew Goddard

http://www.sjtl.org/category/reading-nt/

WORSHIP

7. The bells of St. Petrock, South Brent in Devon - BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055dttq

8. Choral Evensong from Salisbury Cathdral- BBC Radio 3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05204yq

9. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055f08r

10. Choral services from the chapels of King's College Cambridge

http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir/webcasts.html

and St John's College, Cambridge

http://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/webcasts

and Trinity College, Cambridge

http://trinitycollegechoir.com//webcasts/listen-again/

and New College, Oxford

http://www.newcollegechoir.com/webcasts.html

PRAYER

Please pray for the victims and families of bombings in Lahore, Pakistan of Christ Church reportedly part of the Anglican Church of Pakistan and St John's Roman Catholic Church; those affected by cyclone devastation in the islands of Vanuatu in the Pacific, formerly known as the New Hebrides; for the Church of England, for Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Syria and Iraq including The Christians being held hostage and for refugees facing winter and hunger; for the persecuted church and in particular in India and Iran; for peace in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

11. Topical Prayers - Church of England

http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk

Prayers for the Church of England from Lent and Beyond

http://tinyurl.com/mvux2u3

Deadly blasts hit Pakistan churches in Lahore

http://tinyurl.com/mlxs4te

and Reuters report

http://tinyurl.com/m7mkxrk

India: Indian police beat Christian evangelists - WWM

http://tinyurl.com/myejgsz

Vanuatu cyclone: First aid reaches islands ravaged by Pam - BBC News

http://tinyurl.com/jvnc33r

Live Updates from TVNZ

http://tinyurl.com/n4bzo6w

Iran: Iranian President’s broken promises to minorities - WWM

http://tinyurl.com/lw94z4u

UK Christians in Parliament Report referred to [pdf]:http://tinyurl.com/n7gxj4h

South Carolina: Bishop Lawrence Mark Lawrence's Report

http://tinyurl.com/l4d4lqt

Prayers from Lent and Beyond

http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS

12. Sunday Programme - with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055dttx

Food for thought

13. Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? [Infographic] - Josh Byers

http://tinyurl.com/lwk694q

Resources for engagement with Scripture - Biblegateway

http://tinyurl.com/mxoap32

50 Shades of Boundaries - J John - CEN

http://tinyurl.com/msgbbff

Portraits and Stories of African-American ex-Slaves: 1936-1938

http://tinyurl.com/kycztpd

Is there room for forgiveness in the Middle East? - Jeremy Moody - CEN

http://tinyurl.com/klj8828

'Jerusalem 3D' zooms in on power of ancient city with Imax intensity - LA Times

http://tinyurl.com/kosacxo

John Rutter on The Lord Bless You and Keep You - Classic FM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNYvdQmzdQ8

FINALLY

14. Do You Know What You Believe? - JI Packer - Crossway Video

http://tinyurl.com/lla9ckp

15. O Salutaris Hostia - Ēriks Ešenvalds - Trinity College Choir, Cambridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUTC7zzzRI

16. Your Love Remains - Worship Central NZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztTVN9OwZx4

17. A Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Making of JERUSALEM 3D

https://vimeo.com/98289038

God bless you

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Welcome to this blog on Anglican, theological, biblical and other matters, mostly missional or liturgical (but I reserve the right to write about cricket and politics). It is grounded in some islands at the bottom of the world which, together with a large island to our west, constitute fabulous Down Under.

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Hermeneutics and Human Dignity

Resourcing Preaching and Worship Down Under

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Pearls

Show us anything clearly set forth in Holy Scripture that we do not teach and we will teach it. Show us anything in our teaching or practice is clearly contrary to Holy Scripture, and we will abandon it.

Stephen Neill

For the glory of God is a human being fully alive, and the glory of humanity is the vision of God.

St Irenaeus

Fundamentally the Gospel is obsessed with the idea of the unity of human society.

Masure

We have returned to the Apostles and the old Catholic Fathers. We have planted no new religion, but only preserved the old that was undoubtedly founded and used by the Apostles of Christ and other holy Fathers of the Primitive Church.

Bishop Jewel

Preachers shall behave themselves modestly and soberly in every department of their life. But especially shall they see to it that they teach nothing in the way of a sermon, which they would have religiously held and believed by the people, save what is agreeable to the teaching of the Old or New Testament, and what the Catholic fathers and ancient bishops have collected from this selfsame doctrine.

Canon 6 from the 1571 Bishop’s Convocation

Kent: "See better, Lear, and let me still remain."

William Shakespeare

For the clarity that we are aiming at is indeed complete clarity. But this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear.

Wittgenstein

Justice is eternal, and doesn't depend at all on human conventions.

Montesquieu

The real challenge of Islam to Western intellectual discourse is for us to ask ourselves whether our unprecedented modern experiment of conducting political life with no transcendent values is really working out as well as we once hoped.

Harvey Cox

The long-term happiness of a society depends on how individuals behave towards each other, how families hold together, and how leaders keep the trust of people.

William Hague

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

John Neuhaus

To be an evangelical is not, first and foremost, about doctrinal correctness, but about a passion for the gospel of salvation from sin through Christ for eternity.

John Richardson

Neither may we ... lightly esteem what hath been allowed as fit in the judgement of antiquity, and by the long continued practice of the whole church; from which unnecessarily to swerve, experience hath never as yet found it safe.

Richard Hooker (Lawes, V.7.1)

The function of the Christian canon was to separate the apostolic witness from the ongoing tradition of the church, whose truth was continually in need of being tested by the apostolic faith.

Brevard S. Childs

Every word of God proves true. (Proverbs 30:5)

If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.

Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi

Change comes through ordinary working people organising themselves to struggle for a better world day in, day out.

Morning Star newspaper editorial Tuesday 5 May 2015

"In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl."

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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