Anglican Down Under: Sacred and Spiritual Links

Monday, May 18, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 18 May 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague ...

Here are some things which may be of interest: #1 David Wright on why Jesus chose the Vine as his last I am saying. #2 and #3 Christian ethicist Joshua Hordern and Vaughan Roberts on Christianity and politics; 4 John Lennox on evil and suffering; #5 talks from HTB's leadership conference with Anglican, Catholic and other speakers. #14 a clever new website for bible study from Tyndale House, how Christians voted and changes in hymn singing.

Prayers for you for the coming week:

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. The True Vine - David Wright [Acts 8:26-40 & John 15:1-8] - St Andrew's Oxford Audio
http://tinyurl.com/nt6ensj

2. God, Politics and the Gospel [1 Timothy 2] - Dr Joshua Hordern - St Marks Battersea Rise Audio
http://tinyurl.com/ncvkop7

3. What should the Government do? - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Audio [Romans 13: 1-7]
http://tinyurl.com/q7pk4yr

4. The Loud Absence - John Lennox and Jane Beal - Veritas Forum Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjASQOlFn-E

5. Talks from the HTB Leadership Conference
https://lc17.alpha.org/2015-talks

Commentary
6. The Sunday Readings - Rev Stephen Trott
https://laworgospel.wordpress.com/

7. Preaching Ideas and Commentary - Rev Peter Carrell
http://preachingdownunder.blogspot.co.nz/

8. The New Testament in a year with Rev Andrew Goddard
http://www.sjtl.org/category/reading-nt/

WORSHIP
9. The bells of St Edith's, Monks Kirby in Warwickshire - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05v6ghr

10. Choral Evensong from St Pancras Church during the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music - BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tq45n

11. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vbsty

12. 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/

PRAYER
Please pray for the Church of England, Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Syria and Iraq; for all refugeees and the persecuted church; for relief for those affected by the earthquakes in Nepal; for peace in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

13. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Prayers for the Church of England from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/mvux2u3
Nepal: Prayer for those caught up in tragedy and disaster - CofE
http://tinyurl.com/ndfsnua
South Carolina: Prayers from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS
14. Sunday Programme - with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05v6gjg

Food for thought
15. This new Bible tool could revolutionise scripture reading across the world - Christian Today
http://tinyurl.com/pfwoaaq
Introduction from Tyndale House
http://tinyurl.com/qc5v9de
Step Bible - Try it out
https://www.stepbible.org/
Changing trends in hymn singing? - Heather Bamber - CEN
http://tinyurl.com/oe7rzwk
General Election Voting and Other News - BRIN
http://tinyurl.com/nw4jm9y
Worship Central Acadamy - church planting in Malaysia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykc4-SRbUQk

FINALLY
16. How Christians Grow - Charlie Skrine
http://tinyurl.com/om4m4gz

17. How Deep the Father's Love For Us - St Michael's Singers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g424NcM5Of4

18. Tebe Poem - Rachmaninoff - Fitzwilliam College Choir
To thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. My God, I trust in thee - from the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3zaKRrsYVE

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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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Monday, May 18, 2015

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