Anglican Down Under: Sacred and Spiritual Links

Monday, September 21, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 21 September 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague

Plenty to choose from this week: #1 Vaughan Roberts on what happens when we root ourselves in Christ; #2 Dean Terry Wong talks frankly about the challenges of living the Christian life; #3 Archbishop Mouneer Anis gave two talks at All Souls, Langham Place on the mass migration going on; #4 and #5 David Walker and Ajith Fernando explore prayer and the lessons from Nehemiah in depth; #12 Faure's Requiem in an outstanding recording from the late Sir David Willcocks in 1967 released now by King's College, Cambridge; #13 and 16 much to pray and think about.

Prayers for you for the coming week.

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. Remain in me [John 15:1-8] - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Oxford Audio
http://tinyurl.com/pa3bowx

2. The Christian Life: Purity [Ephesians 5:1-21] - Canon Terry Wong, the new Dean of St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore - Audio [note: frank]
http://tinyurl.com/qbl2du2

3. For Mission Sunday, Archbishop Mouneer Anis spoke at All Souls, Langham Place - Audio
Migration: World on the Move (1) [Matthew 2:1-15]
http://tinyurl.com/nct3sax
Migration: World on the Move (2) [Deuteronomy 10:12-22]
http://tinyurl.com/pebggda

4. Join the Adventure [Nehemiah 1] - David Walker - HTB Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LQ6jt6Rbw

5. Four more talks on Nehemiah - Ajith Fernando - FOCL Video
Passion for Our People: Nehemiah: 1:1-11
http://tinyurl.com/pph6q7v
Preparing for the Challenge: Nehemiah: 1:11b-2:18
http://tinyurl.com/nonnadl
Responding to Opposition: Nehemiah 2:19-4:23
http://tinyurl.com/odtqrqo
Grappling with Inequality: Nehemiah 5:1-19
http://tinyurl.com/qakmv6m

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

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

WORSHIP
8. The bells of All Saints, Loughborough - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bd5f1

9. Choral Evensong from the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich - BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069ydvt

10. Sunday service live from St Helena's Beaufort, South Carolina available at 10:15 am Eastern Time 3:15 pm London Time
https://www.sthelenas1712.org/
and afterwards available here in due course
http://www.sthelenas1712.org/sunday-morning-service-audio/

11. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069yh1h

12. Kings College, Cambridge have released a webcast of an outstanding 1967 recording of Fauré's Requiem, recorded by Sir David Willcocks, who passed away on 17 September, available here:
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir/listen/webcasts.html

13. 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 all touched by the Rugby World Cup and for the persecuted church particularly in Syria and Iraq, Egypt and Laos; and there is a prayer request from the Diocese of South Carolina in appeal court this coming week.

14. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Prayer resources for the Rugby World Cup
http://tinyurl.com/nb3e55c
Egypt: Christian soldier killed after death threats
http://tinyurl.com/o3fot82
Laos: Pastor stabbed to death after refusing to stop preaching - Release International
http://tinyurl.com/ou8gfgs
Two Christians arrested for ‘spreading the faith’ - Release International
http://tinyurl.com/owxs7zs
South Carolina: Prayer requests
http://tinyurl.com/oozrd9m
http://tinyurl.com/p4b6qoh

CURRENT AFFAIRS
15. Sunday Programme with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bd5j0

Food for thought
16. Rugby World Cup: For Fiji, God is the ultimate motivation Christian Today
http://tinyurl.com/p5fu96f
Pope of the masses: is Francis really the people’s champion? - Rowan Williams - New Statesman
http://tinyurl.com/ot3u2wp
Through African Eyes: Resisting America's cultural imperialism - John A. Azumah - First Things
http://tinyurl.com/nk936ue
Giving Your Pastor Feedback After a Sermon... - Geoffrey Kirkland
http://tinyurl.com/of82zw6

FINALLY
17. Magnificent Murals: Sir James Thornhill & St Paul's Cathedral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an9ee3EfCVs

18. Arthur Somervell: O Saviour of the World - Somerville Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obc1c6HS6u0

19. Come to the Waters - New Wine Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f5hz1PcYw

God bless you

1 comment:

Father Ron Smith said...: In addition to the beautiful musical offerings offered in the above link; for sheer pathos and mystery - enabling us to ponder on God's infinitely variable creation - I urge you to tap into my link, here

https://youtu.be/tJNGfBM6ygY; September 21, 2015 at 2:43 PM

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Stephen Neill

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St Irenaeus

Fundamentally the Gospel is obsessed with the idea of the unity of human society.

Masure

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Wittgenstein

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Harvey Cox

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William Hague

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John Neuhaus

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John Richardson

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Richard Hooker (Lawes, V.7.1)

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Brevard S. Childs

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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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Monday, September 21, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 21 September 2015

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