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Monday, September 14, 2015

Spiritual and Sacred Links - Monday 14 September 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague:

#1 Bishop Rennis Ponniah on how to grow in the Christian life and #3 three talks on aspects of marriage; #2. Simon Manchester on the searching questions Jesus asks us and how they lead to growth. #9 there is an early report that the kidnapped Nigerian Anglican bishop of Gwagwalada has been released, but it is a sole report at the moment. Please pray for him, and for others.

Prayers for you for the coming week.

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. Filled with the fullness of God - Bishop Rennis Ponniah - St Andrews Singapore Audio [Ephesians 3:14-21]
http://tinyurl.com/pk2t99j

2. Questions in the storm - Simon Manchester - Moore Audio [[Mark 4:35-41] - outstanding
http://tinyurl.com/ookt2yd

3. Ruth: Lessons for Marriage, Love & Sex - 3 talks from Bishop Rennis Ponniah - St Andrews Singapore Audio [Ruth 1-4]
http://tinyurl.com/nta9o6c

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 Durham Cathedral - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069gtk1

7. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069gbbx

8. 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
We give thanks this week for HM the Queen. Please pray for the peace and safety of Nigeria. On Friday there was one report of the release of Bishop Moses Bukpe-Tabwaye of Gwagwalada shortly after his car had been found - pray it is confirmed; there was also good news from Ethiopia and Sudan in court cases against Christians, but continued challenges in Syria, Iraq, India and Turkey; and please also pray for the Diocese of South Carolina.

9. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Prayer for the Queen - CofE
http://tinyurl.com/oav2xgu
Nigeria: Police Say Kidnapped Bishop Moses Tabwaye Has Been Released - Channels TV Lagos
http://tinyurl.com/ootgz3v
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Christians cleared of holding ‘illegal meetings’ - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/nznrywl
Sudan: Church wins legal battle over property - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/ngtmv5j
India: Sixth Indian state seeks to adopt 'Anti-Conversion Law' - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/pwvvmnd
Turkey: Greek Orthodox patriarch urges Turkey to learn from past ethnic tensions - Sunday's Zaman
http://tinyurl.com/pl44utx
South Carolina: Prayers from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/p4b6qoh

CURRENT AFFAIRS
10. Sunday Programme with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069gtk7

Food for thought [and the aftermath of the Assisted Dying Bill]
11. Evangelism: The Simplicity of Changing the World - Peter Bolt
http://tinyurl.com/qdkevub
Assisted Dying Bill defeated by substantial majority - David Pocklington
http://tinyurl.com/nfrpddt
Assisted Suicide – some reflections from recent history - Stephen Trott
http://tinyurl.com/nekwcrh
Dignity in Dying and the callous indignity of their spin - Cranmer
http://tinyurl.com/ns6chvs
Religion and law round-up – 13th September - Frank Cranmer
http://tinyurl.com/qxy5ktw
A city standing on a hill - Ellie Hughes
http://tinyurl.com/qek89oc

FINALLY
12. Sam's story - Alpha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp7ZI_nubwA

13. Engage 2015 with the Rugby World Cup
http://engage2015.co.uk/

14. Jerusalem - BBC Proms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032ck4f
More from the last night of the Proms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069wyn4

God bless you

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Monday, September 14, 2015

Spiritual and Sacred Links - Monday 14 September 2015

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