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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Spiritual and Sacred Links - Tuesday 30 June 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague:

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

#1 John Lennox on witnessing in an challenging culture; #2 Grant LeMarquand on preparing for the challenges of ministry; #3 Ele Mumford at the seaside; #4 the challenge and encouragement of Psalm 119; #12 Please pray for the victims' families from numerous massacres in the last 10 days and those being charged with insulting Islam, including now in the UK; #14 Some articles on the US court decision on marriage and some examination of the Pakistan blasphemy laws.

Prayers for you for the coming week

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. The Premier Lecture 2015 - Against the Flow - Professor John Lennox [Do you sometimes feel like you need to be encouraged in your faith, especially with the challenges you face in an increasingly secular culture?]
http://tinyurl.com/q2w4af5

2. 2015 Graduation Commencement Address - Bishop Grant LeMarquand - TSM
http://tinyurl.com/nufxfqh

3. The Wisdom of the Cross - Ele Mumford [1Corinthians 1:18-20] - St Peter's Brighton
http://tinyurl.com/qfus8h2

4. Psalm 119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkEfuY2hKPE

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 St Peter ad Vincula, Combe Martin in Devon - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0606md6

9. Sunday Worship from First Lisburn Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0606mdj

10. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05zzyd8

11. 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 under trial for insulting Islam in Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan and now the UK; for Charleston in South Carolina, Tunisia, France and Kuwait in the aftermath of mass killings; for the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church; for Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Syria and Iraq and Iran; for those affected by the earthquakes in Nepal; for peace in Burundi, Ukraine, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

12. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Prayers for the Church of England from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/mvux2u3
UK: Belfast Pastor Faces Prison for "Grossly Offending" Islam - Soeren Kern
http://tinyurl.com/qxle3l9
Imam defends pastor who called Islam 'satanic', says he will go to jail with him - CT
http://tinyurl.com/pwd6mcg
Egypt: Coptic boys on bail, anti-Islam charges pending - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/pgf3lvf
Egyptian convert still in jail having served his time - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/p6c72oz
Sudan: Prosecution closes case Sudanese Pastors trial - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/pwz2575
South Carolina:Prayers from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS
13. Sunday Programme - with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0606mdd

Food for thought
14. What Churches and Clergy Should Note from the Same-Sex Marriage Ruling - Christianity Today
http://tinyurl.com/q89w45a
SCOTUS Decision: Best Articles & Videos - David Murray
http://tinyurl.com/q4j9wt7
and a round up from First Things
http://tinyurl.com/pklw9jw
Don Carson Responds to SCOTUS
http://tinyurl.com/pusn758
A Prayer Litany for Marriage from the ACNA college of bishops - Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/nnm4bte
Al Jazeera digs into Pakistan's blasphemy law in two-part series - Julia Duin
http://tinyurl.com/py83pxx
Our Story Begins: Hudson Taylor - OMF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRwa0-QHf7Y

FINALLY
15. Facing the Canon with Anthony Delaney - J John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0rBAmUGCT8

16. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me - Elgar - St John's College Choir, Cambridge
http://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/taxonomy/term/348

17. Trails End - Randy Halverson Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/124181194

God bless you

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