Anglican Down Under: Sacred and Spiritual Links

Monday, May 11, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 11 May 2015

Supplied by a UK correspondent: After an interesting week, here are some things which may be of interest. Prayers for you for the coming week:

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. Defending the Reconciling Gospel - Bishop Michael Baughen - The Sermon Video [2 Corinthians 2:1 - 6:18]
http://tinyurl.com/k8ads3s

2. Do you have to lose your mind to become a Christian? - William Taylor - St Helen's Video [Acts 26:24-32]
http://tinyurl.com/q9td3vv

3. Who should we vote for? - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Audio [Proverbs 8:12-31]
http://tinyurl.com/no2cvtl

4. The Anglican Book of Common Prayer: What Relevance Does It Have to Today’s Contemporary Worship? John Yates II and John Yates III - Gospel Coalition Audio
http://tinyurl.com/q5bdpge

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

WORSHIP
8. The bells of St Mary's Redcliffe in Bristol. - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tbs6h

9. Choral Evensong from Queen's College, Oxford
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05sy7rw

10. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tk96x

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/

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 and in particular in Sudan, Cuba and 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
Record number internally displaced by conflict - report - BBC
http://tinyurl.com/pode5xt
Report from the Norwegian Refugee Council referred to [pdf]
http://tinyurl.com/kfvs79x
Syria region: ‘We are going through a terrible moment’ - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/kum9y7l
Sudan: South Sudanese clergymen brought before court - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/mwo3jmk
Cuba: Government crackdown on religious freedom in Cuba - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/me4fv5j
China: Update on church cross removals - Christianity Today
http://tinyurl.com/mq58lee
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/b05tbs6q

Food for thought
14. Religious or Christian?- Bishop Julian Henderson - CEN
http://tinyurl.com/n3wfkrm
Making Disciples in the Everyday Stuff of Life - Jeff Vanderstelt
http://tinyurl.com/kwh2y6w
Why Sermons Often Bore - Gavin Ortland
http://tinyurl.com/pspwf5c
Children's Discipleship - Erin Woodfin
http://tinyurl.com/qbywxjl
Election 2015: How the Christian candidates fared - Lucy Borkett Jones - CT
http://tinyurl.com/owq9maj
Going back to love - Edward Hobbs - CEN
http://tinyurl.com/pkh6wph
The most important decision you can ever make - David Baker
http://tinyurl.com/nuh8k66

FINALLY
15. Church Planting in Croydon - St Helen's Bishopgate Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/123720994

16. Laudate Dominum - Mozart - Somerville Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjB-U0I4VQA

17. We Believe - LIFE Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIYVwz-nQvw

18. A peal of bells to mark the birth of Princess Charlotte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l7MNQo6_EA

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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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Monday, May 11, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 11 May 2015

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