Sacred and Spiritual Links - Tuesday 28th July 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague:

#1 Vaughan Roberts on God the Father; #2 Phil Ashey asks are we comfortable enough in our experience of God to let go and trust him? #3 and #7 talks from the Keswick Convention; #10 prayers needed for Northern Nigeria and Pastors facing death sentences in Sudan; #12 pictures of the heavens; #13 something heavenly from Tallis and #14 some young people musicians from Auckland.

Prayers for you for the coming week.

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. The father heart of God - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Audio [Hosea 10:1-11:1]
http://tinyurl.com/q8g3rmr

2. In the Fellowship of Elijah - Phil Ashey - Christ Church Atlanta Video [1 Kings 17]
http://tinyurl.com/nkd266r

3.Talks from the Keswick Convention 2015 - Clayton TV [see listing on left for John Risbridger and Paul Mallard talks]
http://tinyurl.com/pqa7db5

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 St Eustachius, Tavistock in Devon - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0638cy6

7. Sunday Worship from the Keswick Convention - Jonathan Lamb preaches - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0638fz1

8. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062mfmy

9. 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 the persecuted church: for churches under attack in Nigeria; for Rev Yat Michael and Rev Peter Reith under threat of death in Sudan; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

10. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Nigeria: Boko Haram kills 25 in Nigeria - CNN
http://tinyurl.com/p3uukps
Two Explosive Devices Planted at Nigerian Church _Christian News
http://tinyurl.com/olzdbrf
Sudan: Defence submits closing statement in trial of pastors - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/p25ljwp
South Carolina:Prayers from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS
Food for thought
11. CT scan of charred scroll yields oldest Biblical remnant after Dead Sea Scrolls - Times of Israel
http://tinyurl.com/q7jj3g7
1,500-Year-Old Text Has Been Digitally Resurrected From a Hebrew Scroll - Smithsonian Magazine
http://tinyurl.com/prg6wad
Forward from Conversion: How We Can Focus on Spiritual Growth and Transformation - Ed Stetzer - Christianity Today
http://tinyurl.com/oy9575e
Same-Sex 'Marriage': Evolution or Deconstruction of Marriage and the Family? - Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP, of Sydney - ABC Religion
http://tinyurl.com/osss975
How to lead a group worth belonging to - Sarah Abell
http://tinyurl.com/ph8xara
Don't Read All About It - David Keen
http://tinyurl.com/ozcnfs9
It’s all good. But is it the best? - David Mansfield
http://tinyurl.com/qyocm93

FINALLY
12. Consider the Heavens - Hubblesite
http://hubblesite.org/

13. Spem in Alium - Thomas Tallis - The Cardinall's Musick
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02xnrns

14. May your heart - St Paul's Auckland Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvsey0Xvnrw

God bless you