Monday, May 11, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 11 May 2015

Supplied by a UK correspondent: After an interesting week, here are some things which may be of interest.  Prayers for you for the coming week:

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. Defending the Reconciling Gospel - Bishop Michael Baughen - The Sermon Video [2 Corinthians 2:1 - 6:18]
http://tinyurl.com/k8ads3s

2. Do you have to lose your mind to become a Christian? - William Taylor - St Helen's Video [Acts 26:24-32]
http://tinyurl.com/q9td3vv

3. Who should we vote for? - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Audio [Proverbs 8:12-31]
http://tinyurl.com/no2cvtl

4. The Anglican Book of Common Prayer: What Relevance Does It Have to Today’s Contemporary Worship? John Yates II and John Yates III - Gospel Coalition Audio
http://tinyurl.com/q5bdpge

Commentary
5. The Sunday Readings - Rev Stephen Trott
https://laworgospel.wordpress.com/

6. Preaching Ideas and Commentary - Rev Peter Carrell
http://preachingdownunder.blogspot.co.nz/

7. The New Testament in a year with Rev Andrew Goddard
http://www.sjtl.org/category/reading-nt/

WORSHIP
8. The bells of St Mary's Redcliffe in Bristol. - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tbs6h

9. Choral Evensong from Queen's College, Oxford
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05sy7rw

10. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tk96x

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/

PRAYER
Please pray for the Church of England, Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Syria and Iraq; for all refugeees and the persecuted church and in particular in Sudan, Cuba and China; for peace in 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
Record number internally displaced by conflict - report - BBC
http://tinyurl.com/pode5xt
Report from the Norwegian Refugee Council referred to [pdf]
http://tinyurl.com/kfvs79x
Syria region: ‘We are going through a terrible moment’ - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/kum9y7l
Sudan: South Sudanese clergymen brought before court - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/mwo3jmk
Cuba: Government crackdown on religious freedom in Cuba - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/me4fv5j
China: Update on church cross removals - Christianity Today
http://tinyurl.com/mq58lee
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/b05tbs6q

Food for thought
14. Religious or Christian?- Bishop Julian Henderson - CEN
http://tinyurl.com/n3wfkrm
Making Disciples in the Everyday Stuff of Life - Jeff Vanderstelt
http://tinyurl.com/kwh2y6w
Why Sermons Often Bore - Gavin Ortland
http://tinyurl.com/pspwf5c
Children's Discipleship - Erin Woodfin
http://tinyurl.com/qbywxjl
Election 2015: How the Christian candidates fared - Lucy Borkett Jones - CT
http://tinyurl.com/owq9maj
Going back to love - Edward Hobbs - CEN
http://tinyurl.com/pkh6wph
The most important decision you can ever make - David Baker
http://tinyurl.com/nuh8k66

FINALLY
15. Church Planting in Croydon - St Helen's Bishopgate Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/123720994

16. Laudate Dominum - Mozart - Somerville Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjB-U0I4VQA

17. We Believe - LIFE Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIYVwz-nQvw

18. A peal of bells to mark the birth of Princess Charlotte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l7MNQo6_EA

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