Anglican Down Under: Sacred and Spiritual Links

Monday, June 1, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 1 June 2015

Supplied by a colleague in England:

Here are some things which may be of interest: #1 Bishop Rennis Ponniah on what the Holy Spirit coming means for us; #2 Ele Mumford with some challenging thoughts on the gifts of the Spirit; #3 Bishop Ken Clarke in Singapore asking what we do with Jesus; #4 some materials to think about for Trinity Sunday; #9 the challenge of Jesus in Sunday Worship - well worth listening to; #13 weary of praying for the persecuted church? They need our prayers and and for us to remember them and tell their story; #15 lots of interesting and encouraging stories; #16 challenging story from a Rwandan who encountered Christ on Alpha.

Prayers for you for the coming week

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. When the Holy Spirit Comes - Bishop Rennis Ponniah - St Andrew's Cathedral Singapore Audio
http://tinyurl.com/od6dolp

2. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit - Ele Mumford - Holy Trinity Barnes Audio
http://tinyurl.com/ot5cuvr

3. The Most Important Question of All - Bishop Ken Clarke - St Andrews Singapore Audio [Matthew 27]
http://tinyurl.com/ouppzr9

4. Trinity Sunday
321 - The Story of God the World and You! - Glen Scrivener
https://vimeo.com/83662637
Trinity Resources - Glen Scrivener
http://tinyurl.com/q8wmzb9
How to Glimpse the Trinity - Peter J Leithart - Christianity Today
http://tinyurl.com/qxp7s8w

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

6. The Sunday Readings - Rev Stephen Trott [hopefully back online soon]
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 St Probus & St Grace, Probus in Cornwall. - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wnjjh

9. Sunday Worship from Holy Trinity, Platt in Manchester - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wnlz1

10. Choral Evensong from St David's Cathedral - BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w83tp

11. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wxrtd

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, Iran, Egypt, Eritrea 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
Syria: Abduction of Christians - MEC
http://tinyurl.com/o5nkcse
Iran: Update on pastor on trial - MEC
http://tinyurl.com/qy2ddcr
Egypt: Bishoy Boulous suffers ‘regular beatings’ in jail - Release International
http://tinyurl.com/qdfptms
Nigeria: Nigeria’s Northeast Suffers String of Attacks by Boko Haram - WSJ
http://tinyurl.com/o4grc92
Militants kill more than 100 in Benue - Release International
http://tinyurl.com/pf4vajm
Eritrea: Protest marks 13 years since church crackdown - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/oxqjg54
China: Two Chinese house church Christians given jail sentences - CT
http://tinyurl.com/o9e9sdt
Video for China week of prayer - CSW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npppXegdSd4
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/b05wnlyx

Food for thought
15. Archbishop encourages all to explore vocations - ABY
http://tinyurl.com/ou575sr
God's Army - Premier Christianity
http://tinyurl.com/njgsurf
The letter of RT Kendall to the UK Church - Premier
http://tinyurl.com/p7j82nq
Wrestling with God - Shawn Michaels [The Heartbreak Kid] - Premier
http://tinyurl.com/qju6vht
What happened to online churches? - Martyn Casserly - CT
http://tinyurl.com/ojngyoj
Why do people hate Jews and Judaism? - Benjamin Blech
http://tinyurl.com/nemx54q
Could it Happen Here? What Existing Data Tell Us about Contemporary Antisemitism in the UK [pdf] - JPR
http://tinyurl.com/pplnkwc
Remembering the Gospel with Alzheimer’s - Marlena Graves - Christianity Today
http://tinyurl.com/o66fphy
Having HIV doesn't mean I can't have the quality of life that Jesus offers - via David Keen
http://tinyurl.com/oxhu5tl
Rise and Shine - The King's English
http://tinyurl.com/nhqm9q3

FINALLY
16. Emmanuel's Story - Rwanda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8xDZnfOG34

17. The Spirit of the Lord - Stopford - Ecclesium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XrmmsEt5yI

18. Joy - Worship Central NZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdIvnUjyK-A

19. Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier Alan Warburton Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/128275855

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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, June 1, 2015

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