Anglican Down Under: Spiritual and Sacred Links

Monday, March 30, 2015

Spiritual and Sacred Links - Monday 30 March 2015

Supplied by me: Bloopers of the week, courtesy Doug Chaplin.

Noted on Taonga: a series of reflections for each day of Holy Week from the pen of John Bluck. Taonga is here. The reflection for Monday is here.

Supplied by a UK colleague:

SERMONS AND TALKS

1. The Grace of God - Andrew Wingfield Digby - St Andrew's Oxford Audio [Ephesians 2:1-10 & John 3:14-21]

http://tinyurl.com/qab8cqp

2. Discipleship, Holiness & Revival - Bishop Hwa Yung - St Andrew's Singapore Audio

http://tinyurl.com/o39vmo5

3. Pain: Illusion or Truth? = Professor John Lennox and Daniel Lowenstein - Veritas Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5tBqtQ2dPM

4. Our Inheritance - Dr Ashley Null [Cranmer and the Mission of the Church]

http://tinyurl.com/nnkodkr

Commentary

5. The Sunday Readings - Rev Stephen Trott

https://laworgospel.wordpress.com/

6. Preaching Ideas and Commentary - Rev Peter Carrell

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

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

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

WORSHIP

8. The bells of St. Olave's, Hart Street in London - BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ns8p8

9. Choral Evensong from St John's College and Gonville and Caius College Combined Choirs from Cambridge

http://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/webcasts/5February2015

10. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ns9zk

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 and during the Nigerian elections going on now; for the persecuted church and in particular in China; 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

Iraq/Syria: Assyrian Christians flee jihadists to southeast Turkey - WWM

http://tinyurl.com/njffgzc

Nigeria: Nigeria vote runs into second day after glitches, killings - Reuters

http://tinyurl.com/pdta99n

How churches are responding to Boko Haram - Christian Today

http://tinyurl.com/oxs95vl

China: Chinese Court releases 8 Christians after pleading guilty over church protests - Christian Today

http://tinyurl.com/pnvz6gv

South Carolina: 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/b05ns8pg

Food for thought

14. What Palm Sunday Means: God's Street Theatre Comes to Jerusalem - Bishop Tom Wright

http://tinyurl.com/obzo2ta

Who the unchurched really are - Gene Veith

http://tinyurl.com/q59cx8q

Best Paid Cleric - CEN

http://tinyurl.com/nlee644

The Dance of Suffering and Love - Mark Galli - Christianity Today

http://tinyurl.com/o9uz2le

FINALLY

15. Paul Mealor in conversation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEBQW7csqPc

16. Ubi Caritas - Paul Mealor - Royal Holloway Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QETjHFe4_g

17. Birds Flew Over the Spire - Gary Ryan - About Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2O6FVpVk4I

God bless you

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Anglican Down Under

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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