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Monday, July 6, 2015

Spiritual and Sacred Links - Monday 6th July 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague:

Here are some things I hope you will find encouraging and thought provoking:

#1 Vaughan Roberts on what Jesus left behind; #2 Kendall Harmon on current challenges for Christians and society; #3 William Taylor considers the Gospel at work; #4 Interesting discussion with Tom Wright and Peter Thiel on future ethical challenges including 'trans-humanism' - which has generated some discussion at #14. #13 some commentary and resources on current marriage moves; #14 Call to prayer from the Church of England Evangelical Council; and with #16 Christians in Singapore spent Sunday in prayer; #17 the bigger picture.

Prayers for you too for the coming week

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. "Peace I leave with you" - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Audio [John14:25-3]
http://tinyurl.com/nzhu8ej

2. What does it Mean to Live Faithfully to Christ in our Time? - Dr Kendall Harmon - Christ St Pauls Audio
http://tinyurl.com/qcnzn8j

3. Strengthened for Work - William Taylor - St Helen's Media [Romans 1:1-17]
http://tinyurl.com/pvkfwhl

4. Imagining the Future, Innovation, and God - Bishop Tom Wright and Peter Thiel - Veritas Forum Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-c1glQRAlE

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 All Saints, East Meon in Hampshire - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060xwcz

9. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060fvvr

10. 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 those grieving from recent attacks, particularly in Tunisia; for the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church; for Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Syria and Iraq, Nigeria, Egypt and Sudan; for those affected by the earthquakes in Nepal; for peace in Burundi, Ukraine, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

11. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Prayers for the Church of England from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/mvux2u3
Tunisia: Prayers of Remembrance - CofE
http://tinyurl.com/qhln2zm
Sudan: S Sudan pastors will face trial, judge rules
http://tinyurl.com/pmycqya
Egypt: Egyptian solider, the only Christian in his unit, found dead - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/onb5nkn
Greece: Greek Orthodox Church urges Yes vote - CP
http://tinyurl.com/ozyczbd
South Carolina:Prayers from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS
12. Sunday Programme - with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060xztd

Marriage Responses and Commentary
13. Statement in response to the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church resolution regarding same sex marriage - GS Standing Committee [Updated]
http://tinyurl.com/ntk6g3w
Is TEC's new doctrine of marriage heretical? - Peter Carrell
http://tinyurl.com/pcvsmhq
Just Married - Steve Waldman
http://tinyurl.com/q459zu5
John Roberts’s full-throated gay marriage dissent: Constitution ‘had nothing to do with it’ - Amber Phillips - Washington Post
http://tinyurl.com/oj675je
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Warns UK Against ‘Crazy’ Judicial Activism - Breitbart
http://tinyurl.com/o7rrk8g
50 Resources for Equipping the Church on Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage - Joe Carter
http://tinyurl.com/nm6t6du
Some Advice on Same-Sex Marriage for US Church Leaders From a Canadian - Carey Nieuwhof
http://tinyurl.com/qc2geyn
Advice from Chesterton: Don’t Take Down the Fence until You Know Why It’s There - Amy Hall
http://tinyurl.com/qdw9z4r

Food for thought
14. The time to think about transhumanism is now - Phil Whittall
http://tinyurl.com/p6vabsz
CEEC: Petertide Call to Prayer
http://www.ceec.info/call-to-prayer.html
51,000 Christians gather at Sports Hub to mark SG50 - Straits Times
http://tinyurl.com/o5axm4w

FINALLY
15. What is the meaning of the word 'gospel'? - William Taylor
http://tinyurl.com/pquy384

16. Revival through our eyes - Waves of Revival by Andrew Yeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGv924_WRY

17. ISS Symphony - Timon Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/131006122

God bless you

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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

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James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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