Anglican Down Under: Spiritual and Sacred Links

Monday, February 16, 2015

Spiritual and Sacred Links - Monday 16 February 2015

Supplied by a colleague in the UK:

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

#1 Vaughan Roberts on St Stephen. #2 Bishop Tom Wright's timely reminder of God's plan for restoration of creation and human relationships; #3 Professor Alister McGrath on John Stott's 'Double Method' of listening to contemporary culture and then expounding the Gospel faithfully in terms that it will understand. Please pray for the Church of England and the church under pressure.

SERMONS AND TALKS

1. Stephen at the Sanhedrin - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbe's Oxford Audio [Acts 6:8-8:1]

http://tinyurl.com/lph85oz

2. God's Plan for Human Relationship - Bishop Tom Wright at Humanum 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsB-JDsOTwE

3. Double Listening: The John Stott London Lecture 2014 - Alister McGrath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XBmcAZl4mA

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 Read the New Testament in a year with Rev Andrew Goddard

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

WORSHIP

7. The bells of St Mary's, Dunsford in Devon - BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0520r8b

8. Choral Evensong from St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle - BBC Radio 3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051cztg

9. Sunday Holy Communion livestreamed from St Helena's Church, Beaufort, South Carolina at 10:15 am Eastern Time, 3:15 pm London Time

http://www.sthelenas1712.org/

10. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0528mlm

11. 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 Church of England, for Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Syria and Iraq including refugees facing winter and hunger; for the persecuted church and in particular in Nigeria and neighboring countries; for peace in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

12. Topical Prayers - Church of England

http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk

Prayers for the Church of England from Lent and Beyond

http://tinyurl.com/mvux2u3

Call to Action - Religious Liberty Commission [pdf]

http://tinyurl.com/q3otcuq

Over 70 MPs attend Open Doors report launch - Open Doors

http://tinyurl.com/pusc6d4

Nigeria: February update - CSW video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWt2HxxlErE

Boko Haram’s attacks spread into Niger sparking mass exodus - WWM

http://tinyurl.com/kb5myj8

South Carolina: What it Means: Understanding Judge Goodstein's Ruling

http://tinyurl.com/mak28tr

Prayers from Lent and Beyond

http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0520t2h

Food for thought

14. Church Buildings and other News - BRIN

http://tinyurl.com/pvhflct

Barna: How Pastors use Internet Ministry- Christianity Today

http://tinyurl.com/mnyep2v

Gang-Infested Portland School Revitalized by Church Program - CP

http://tinyurl.com/m4vkg9g

When Worship is Our Lifeline - Dave Zuleger

http://tinyurl.com/qdmc8gl

The Dark Side of the Moon - NASA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdkMHkF7BaA

FINALLY

15. Generation Y: What can we do to engage well with Generation Y? - LICC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDbVNu2sKUM

16. 100 Gatherings Message - Tim Hughes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXOQJO5lxQI

17. Born on a new day - The King's Singers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDpp4iz2dQ

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.

I have two related blogs which I post on less frequently:

Hermeneutics and Human Dignity

Resourcing Preaching and Worship Down Under

I am Bishop of the Diocese of Christchurch in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia (ACANZP). I am trying to write in ways which contribute to the flourishing of the church of God - a church represented in the Anglican Communion, in the Anglican churches of these islands and, of course, in my Diocese. You will judge whether I am succeeding or not!

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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