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Monday, August 31, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 31 August 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague:

#1 Andrew Wingfield Digby on aligning with God; #2 In need or rejuvenation in your ministry? veteran evangelist and director of Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka has some ideas for renewal - does groaning help? #3 Archbishop Ben Kwashi on forgiveness; #4 What happens when you Google NT Wright.

Prayers for you for the coming week.

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. Running the way of God's commandments - Andrew Wingfield Digby - St Andrew's Oxford Audio [Ephesians 5:15-20 and John 6:51-58]
http://tinyurl.com/oevl4d6

2. The Secrets of Long-Term Freshness: A Grace Coloured Approach to Life and Ministry - Ajith Fernando [veteran evangelist with Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka] - FOCL video
http://tinyurl.com/ohrxtqm
Outline [pdf]
http://tinyurl.com/p7e9998

3. Unconditional love for our enemies - Archbishop Ben Kwashi
http://tinyurl.com/ptbzxty
More New Horizon talks
http://tinyurl.com/q7q33gw

4. Simply Good News - Bishop Tom Wright - Google Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEIjaHOcGFc

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/

WORSHIP
7. The bells of St. Vedast, Foster Lane in London - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b067w16n

8. Choral Evensong Edington Priory during the Festival of Music within the Liturgy - BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06709b6

9. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0666tnc

10. 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 particularly in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Egypt and China as well as for all displaced persons and refugees; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

11. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Syria and Iraq region: Update from FRMME
http://tinyurl.com/qgzlvkd
media summary for 27th August
http://tinyurl.com/o94wp7c
Nigeria: Muslim Herdsmen Attacks in Nigeria’s Middle Belt Show Jihadist Aims, Sources Say - Morningstar News
http://tinyurl.com/npn3c2p
Egypt: Christian evangelist accused of ‘blasphemy’ - Release International
http://tinyurl.com/nqlyjsr
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Orthodox leaders jailed after protesting about persecution - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/omkocnk
China: Nine arrested in crackdown against Christians as row about church crosses continues - Antony Bushfield - Premier
http://tinyurl.com/ppvmwjn
South Carolina: The real story behind our split from the Episcopal Church
http://tinyurl.com/pus2x6t
more:
http://tinyurl.com/o38ly7h
Prayers from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS
12. Sunday Programme with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b067x8m4

Food for thought
13. The greatest challenge facing the UK Church- Steve Clifford - EA
http://tinyurl.com/qav5xds
What Kind of Faith Helped People Survive Hurricane Katrina? - Jamie Aten - Christianity Today
http://tinyurl.com/nm5wtv3
Evangelism threatened by counter-extremism measures - EA
http://tinyurl.com/oa2lt3o
A Spiritual Battle - Major General Timothy Cross - EA
http://tinyurl.com/qgln8h2
Do we have a right to die? - Martyn Eden - Premier
http://tinyurl.com/ot438sh
Why the assisted dying bill ends human dignity, not suffering - EA
http://tinyurl.com/o2fawzc
Too Busy - Chuck Collins - CCPhoenix
http://tinyurl.com/pa42sgs

FINALLY
14. First Place - Worship Central NZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQSHbP6IdlA

15. Iceland 4K - Eylenda Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/132602913

16. Overture: Helios - Carl Nielsen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030bwc6
More Proms here:
http://tinyurl.com/nwjac3

God bless you

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Stephen Neill

For the glory of God is a human being fully alive, and the glory of humanity is the vision of God.

St Irenaeus

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

Masure

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Bishop Jewel

Preachers shall behave themselves modestly and soberly in every department of their life. But especially shall they see to it that they teach nothing in the way of a sermon, which they would have religiously held and believed by the people, save what is agreeable to the teaching of the Old or New Testament, and what the Catholic fathers and ancient bishops have collected from this selfsame doctrine.

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William Shakespeare

For the clarity that we are aiming at is indeed complete clarity. But this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear.

Wittgenstein

Justice is eternal, and doesn't depend at all on human conventions.

Montesquieu

The real challenge of Islam to Western intellectual discourse is for us to ask ourselves whether our unprecedented modern experiment of conducting political life with no transcendent values is really working out as well as we once hoped.

Harvey Cox

The long-term happiness of a society depends on how individuals behave towards each other, how families hold together, and how leaders keep the trust of people.

William Hague

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

John Neuhaus

To be an evangelical is not, first and foremost, about doctrinal correctness, but about a passion for the gospel of salvation from sin through Christ for eternity.

John Richardson

Neither may we ... lightly esteem what hath been allowed as fit in the judgement of antiquity, and by the long continued practice of the whole church; from which unnecessarily to swerve, experience hath never as yet found it safe.

Richard Hooker (Lawes, V.7.1)

The function of the Christian canon was to separate the apostolic witness from the ongoing tradition of the church, whose truth was continually in need of being tested by the apostolic faith.

Brevard S. Childs

Every word of God proves true. (Proverbs 30:5)

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Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi

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