Anglican Down Under: Spiritual and Sacred Links

Monday, May 25, 2015

Spiritual and Sacred Links - Monday 25 May 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague ...

Here are some things which may be of interest: #1 Mike Pilavachi, Soul Survivor preacher on the action of the Holy Spirit in the Church; #2 Bishop Rennis Ponniah on the call to Christian service; #3 Stewart Ruch explains the charismatic understanding of prophesy; #4 Professor John Lennox on the compatability of Christianity and Science, but not Atheism; #8 and 9 Bellringing for Pentecost in Hull; #10 Ascension choral evensong from Lichfield; #13 I thought of apologising for or cutting some of the many links to persecution of Christians, but the reality is that it is accelerating, particularly in from Muslim and atheistic forces, so please pray for the many Christians under pressure across the world; #15 Thoughts on Pentecost, science and the fall out from the UK election.

Prayers for you for the coming week

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. Holy Spirit for the Local Church - Mike Pilavachi - St Albans Fulham Audio [Acts 2]
http://tinyurl.com/oktln6j

2. The Nature of Christian Service - Bishop Rennis Ponniah
http://tinyurl.com/qhcj6m8

3. Pentecost Sermon - Rev Steward Ruch - St Andrew's Cathedral Singapore Audio [1 Corinthians 13:13 and 14:1]
http://tinyurl.com/nwnnbq4

4. Cosmic Chemistry: Do Science and God Mix? John Lennox - Veritas Forum at U of Florida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km0FGgbx42I

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

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

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

WORSHIP
8. The bells of Holy Trinity, Hull - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vssqb

9. Sunday Worship from Holy Trinity, Hull - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vssqn

10. Choral Evensong from Lichfield Cathedral - BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vh9ps

11. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vxlj5

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/
and New College, Oxford
http://www.newcollegechoir.com/webcasts.html

PRAYER
Please pray for the Church of England, Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Syria and Iraq, Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan and China; for those affected by the earthquakes in Nepal; for peace in Burundi, 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
Nigeria: Christians killed as villages raided - Release International
http://tinyurl.com/ouzdebx
Four priests beaten to stupor as Enugu government battles Anglican Church - Daily Post Nigeria
http://tinyurl.com/orl29ha
Kenya: Al Shabaab attacks village in Kenya's Garissa - CT
http://tinyurl.com/qdcox7s
Sudan: Trial begins for Sudanese Clergymen - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/ocfu3k6
Iran :Eighteen Iranian Christian Converts Sentenced to a Total of 23 Years in Prison - ICNA
http://tinyurl.com/pzawf64
Pakistan:Pakistan charges 106 over deaths of Christian couple burnt in brick kiln - CT
http://tinyurl.com/nbd22m5
China:Chinese President warns religious groups against foreign influence - CT
http://tinyurl.com/plonmbg
South Carolina: Visit of Primate of South America
http://tinyurl.com/q6f5erh
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/b05vssqj

Food for thought
15. What is Pentecost? - Mark Woods
http://tinyurl.com/o33esx6
Why doesn't the Holy Spirit do anything to me? - Martin Saunders - CT
http://tinyurl.com/ntmxmsz
Seven Spirits of God: A Pentecost Exhortation - Peter J Leithart - First Things
http://tinyurl.com/nszpcqa
3 Reasons for Christians to Engage in Science - Ed Stetzer - Christianity Today
http://tinyurl.com/pgfosp9
The time bomb in the church's midst... and how to defuse it - Martin Saunders - CT
http://tinyurl.com/qek5twg
The 2015 General Election: Religious Affiliation and Party Vote Share Across Constituencies - BRIN
http://tinyurl.com/pxfymrk
CofE celebrates key Christian appointments in Parliament - Ruth Gledhill - CT
http://tinyurl.com/or2k9fd

FINALLY
16. Alpha International Lookback 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ3uxlJJGsw

17. O thou who camest from above - Stopford - Ecclesium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAdWe67BajU

18. Spirit Fall - New Wine Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdioQL3HWLM

19. Praise the Lord with Drums and Cymbals - St. Olaf Handbell Choir [Psalm 150]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwrshiYDn0M

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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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