Advent links remain available here:
Meanwhile I hope some of this may be of
interest:
#1 Kendall Harmon on John the Baptist and
the call to repentence; #2 Bishop Tom Wright on Joy; #3 Andrew Hay continues to
look at Christianity in politics; #4 John Lennox on Discipleship and the Book
of Daniel; #15 a new website 'Christmas starts with Christ' is getting some
coverage.
Prayers for you this coming week.
SERMONS AND TALKS
1. St John the Baptist and the danger of
cheap grace - Kendall Harmon [Mark 1:1-8]
2. Theology of Joy: N. T. Wright with
Miroslav Volf - Yale Video
3. God and Government: the characteristics
of a good political leader - Donald Hay - St Andrew's Oxford Audio [Deuteronomy
17:14-20 and Mark 10:35-45]
4. Four talks on Daniel and Discipleship -
Professor John Lennox - FOCL Video
Standing Strong for God in a Secular
Society
Identity and Intecrity [Daniel 1-2]
Revelation and Reason [Daniel 3-5]
Power and Truth [Daniel 6-12]
Commentary for Sunday 14th December
5. Preaching Ideas and Commentary - Rev
Peter Carrell
6. The Sunday Readings - Rev Stephen Trott
WORSHIP
7. The bells of St Michael's, Kingsteignton
in Devon - BBC Radio 4
8. Sunday Holy Communion livestreamed from St
Helena's Church, Beaufort, South Carolina at 10:15 am Eastern Time, 3:15 pm
London Time
9. Advent Carol Service still available
from St John's College, Cambridge – BBC Radio 3
10. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
11. Archived Choral services during the
holidays from the chapels of King's College Cambridge
and Trinity College, Cambridge
and St John's College, Cambridge
and New College, Oxford
PRAYER
Please pray for the Ebola Crisis and for
those working for a cure; for Christians and all facing persecution and crime
in Iraq; for the persecuted church and in particular in Nigeria, Iran, Pakistan
and Egypt; for peace in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South
Carolina.
12. Topical Prayers - Church of England
Nigeria: Dozens killed in double bombing in
Jos - BBC News
Iran: Second appeal hearing for three
Iranian clergymen – CSW
Pakistan: Three more cases in which
Pakistani Christians accused of blasphemy – WWM
Report referred to
South Carolina: Decision in South Carolina
Case Expected Soon - Alan Haley
Prayers from Lent and Beyond
CURRENT AFFAIRS
13. Sunday Programme - with Edward Stourton
- BBC Radio 4
Food for thought
14. Wake up for Advent - Archbishop Sentamu
- BBC Radio 2 Pause for Thought
Waiting is more than unfulfilled longing -
Dr Martyn Atkins
Christmas Observance – BRIN
Good without God? Morality's Foundations
Crumble in the Absence of Christianity - Peter Hitchens - ABC Religion
CIA torture: What should the Christian
response be? - Roy Jenkins - Christian Today
Did Luke get the date of Jesus’ birth
wrong? - Ian Paul
15. Christmas Starts with Christ - Vic van
den Bergh
Giggling baby Jesus goes viral in Christmas
Starts with Christ campaign - Ruth Gledhill - Christian Today
Christmas Starts with Christ website
FINALLY
16. Advent 2014 Week 2 - Sharon Dirckx from
the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics - UCCF Video
17. Christmas Video 2014 - All Souls
18. O Sing Joyfully - Adrian Batten - Royal
Holloway Choir
19. Joy to the World - Rend Collective
20. Soaring lights over Norway - Ole C
Salomonsen Vimeo
God bless you
Good video - no.17 - from All Souls, Langham place.
ReplyDeleteDon't suppose you have one from the church around the corner: All Saints, Margaret Street? More solemn music.
I don't know what they are up to nowadays Fr Ron, but this is from their heyday when they had their own boys choir school
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Their website has samplers from the modern choir, which has replaced the boys with sopranos.
http://www.allsaintsmargaretstreet.org.uk/music/recordings
Even the cathedrals which have started girls choirs rarely mix them as it gives a very different, though not necessarily bad, sound.
The interesting thing listening to old recordings is how much the sound of choirs has changed, even among those which are all male.
Thanks, Pageantmaster, for the link to ASMS. Season's Greetings to you and Yours.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to realise that Sir Lawrence Olivier was once a chorister at All Saints. And that the father of Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber was one-time Organist and Choirmaster & resident Composer.
Happy Christmas Father Ron
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