Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Tuesday 21 July 2015

Supplied by a UK correspondent:

I hope some of this may be of interest and I pray perhaps a blessing:

#1 Andrew Wingfield Digby on God's faithfulness; #2 Kendall Harmon on our fulfilment in worship #3 Bishop Rennis Ponniah today on God's new covenant identity for His people; #11 Bishop Angaelos Coptic Church General Bishop in the UK talking about persecution in Egypt, and relations among Christians and with the secular world; #13 a glimpse of Pluto.

Prayers for you too for the coming week.

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. God does not give up on us - Andrew Wingfield Digby - St Andrew's Oxford Audio [Ephesians 1:3-14 and Mark 6:14-29]
http://tinyurl.com/oepkh5o

2. Do we know the greatness of God? - Kendall Harmon - Christ St Paul's Audio [Psalm 48]
http://tinyurl.com/pyfgfpx

3. A New Humanity - Bishop Rennis Ponniah - St Andrew's Singapore Audio [Ephesians 2:11-22]
http://tinyurl.com/or7pc7r

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 Thomas the Apostle, Lymington in Hampshire - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062hdp6

7. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0628qrb

8. 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 two pastors under threat of death in Sudan; for churches under attack in Nigeria and Baghdad; and for rising legal repression in Egypt, Iran, Nepal and China and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

9. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Iraq and Syria: Baghdad, Christians kidnapped and killed. Chaldean Patriarchate asks for protection and security - Asia News
http://tinyurl.com/o87aqnv
Nigeria: Church narrowly escapes destruction - Open Doors
http://tinyurl.com/pvkhsgo
Sudan: Capital Trial reports - Reverend Yat Michael and Reverend Peter Reith - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/nulhxmg
Iran: Iran deal lacks human rights focus - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/npvcke4
Nepal: Anti-conversion laws threaten religious freedom in Nepal - CT
http://tinyurl.com/q2tbg3a
China: New security law prompts fears of religious liberty crackdown - Open Doors
http://tinyurl.com/ntva32v
South Carolina:Prayers from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS
10. Sunday Programme - with William Crawley - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062hn6n

Food for thought
11. Bishop Angaelos stresses importance of religious freedom - CEN
http://tinyurl.com/orlj97m
How to read the Bible and get the complete picture - Andrew Ollerton - CT
http://tinyurl.com/p3op8tf
Interview with Tim Keller - Krish Kandiah - CT
http://tinyurl.com/nw78ru2
How Should Christians Comment Online? - Jon Bloom
http://tinyurl.com/p7wrfe9

FINALLY
12. What is an Evangelist? - J John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibKBDJsMBE

13. Animated Flyover of Pluto’s Icy Mountain and Plains - NASA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydU-YrG_INk

14. Benedictus in C - Stanford - Kampen Boys Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzdPu-dnNgA

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel : for he hath visited, and redeemed his people;
And hath raised up a mighty salvation for us : in the house of his servant David;
As he spoke by the mouth of his holy Prophets : which have been since the world began;
That we should be saved from our enemies : and from the hands of all that hate us;
To perform the mercy promised to our forefathers : and to remember his holy Covenant;
To perform the oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham : that he would give us;
That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies : might serve him without fear;
In holiness and righteousness before him : all the days of our life.
And thou, Child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest : for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people : for the remission of their sins,
Through the tender mercy of our God : whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us;
To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death : and to guide our feet into the way of peace. [Luke 1:68-79 the prophesy of Zacharias]

God bless you

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