Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Tuesday 28th July 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague:

#1 Vaughan Roberts on God the Father; #2 Phil Ashey asks are we comfortable enough in our experience of God to let go and trust him? #3 and #7 talks from the Keswick Convention; #10 prayers needed for Northern Nigeria and Pastors facing death sentences in Sudan; #12 pictures of the heavens; #13 something heavenly from Tallis and #14 some young people musicians from Auckland.

Prayers for you for the coming week.

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. The father heart of God - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Audio [Hosea 10:1-11:1]
http://tinyurl.com/q8g3rmr

2. In the Fellowship of Elijah - Phil Ashey - Christ Church Atlanta Video [1 Kings 17]
http://tinyurl.com/nkd266r

3.Talks from the Keswick Convention 2015 - Clayton TV [see listing on left for John Risbridger and Paul Mallard talks]
http://tinyurl.com/pqa7db5

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

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

WORSHIP
6. The bells of St Eustachius, Tavistock in Devon - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0638cy6

7. Sunday Worship from the Keswick Convention - Jonathan Lamb preaches - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0638fz1

8. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062mfmy

9. Archived Choral services over the Summer 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 persecuted church: for churches under attack in Nigeria; for Rev Yat Michael and Rev Peter Reith under threat of death in Sudan; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

10. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Nigeria: Boko Haram kills 25 in Nigeria - CNN
http://tinyurl.com/p3uukps
Two Explosive Devices Planted at Nigerian Church _Christian News
http://tinyurl.com/olzdbrf
Sudan: Defence submits closing statement in trial of pastors - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/p25ljwp
South Carolina:Prayers from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS
Food for thought

11. CT scan of charred scroll yields oldest Biblical remnant after Dead Sea Scrolls - Times of Israel
http://tinyurl.com/q7jj3g7
1,500-Year-Old Text Has Been Digitally Resurrected From a Hebrew Scroll - Smithsonian Magazine
http://tinyurl.com/prg6wad
Forward from Conversion: How We Can Focus on Spiritual Growth and Transformation - Ed Stetzer - Christianity Today
http://tinyurl.com/oy9575e
Same-Sex 'Marriage': Evolution or Deconstruction of Marriage and the Family? - Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP, of Sydney - ABC Religion
http://tinyurl.com/osss975
How to lead a group worth belonging to - Sarah Abell
http://tinyurl.com/ph8xara
Don't Read All About It - David Keen
http://tinyurl.com/ozcnfs9
It’s all good. But is it the best? - David Mansfield
http://tinyurl.com/qyocm93

FINALLY
12. Consider the Heavens - Hubblesite
http://hubblesite.org/

13. Spem in Alium - Thomas Tallis - The Cardinall's Musick
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02xnrns

14. May your heart - St Paul's Auckland Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvsey0Xvnrw

God bless you

2 comments:

Father Ron Smith said...

A wee bit disappointing, visiting the St. Paul's, Auckland, web-link. So very different from the old days of St. Pauls' Singer; when some real theology went into the composition of the repertoire,

Another problem with some of today's choruses is that they can hardly be understood because of the mumbled delivery. Also, the switch from "May your heart be my home" - almost inexorably, to 'May my heart be your home" suggests a confusion of location. Not like the good old hymns, where theological veracity was primary over sentimentalism.

Jean said...

This one didn't strike a chord with me either Fr Ron but I did like another of their songs 'Glorious'

But theologically accuracy is there:
'May you be One as We are One' - 'I am in the Father and the Father is in me'
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