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Monday, July 13, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 13th July 2015

Supplied by a UK colleague:

I will be posting a lighter than usual listing over the Summer:

#1 Vaughan Roberts and Paul Perkins consider heaven on earth; the combined choirs of Kings' College and St John's College sing evensong from Cambridge; #3 Andrew Goddard is rightly resting from his Herculean exploration of the New Testament in a year, but Peter Carrell and Stephen Trott continue commentary on the readings; #11 Bear Grylls on becoming a Christian and Clive field considers evidence of changed in attitudes to religions in the UK over the last decade; #12 a choir from the Netherlands formed in 2002 in the English choral tradition.

Prayers for you too for the coming week.

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. A marriage made in heaven - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Audio [Hosea 1:1-2:1 and Revelation 21:1-4]
http://tinyurl.com/pz5wpox

2. Christian Worship - Paul Perkin - St Mark's Battersea Rise Audio [Hebrews 12:14-29]
http://tinyurl.com/otc8olb

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

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

WORSHIP
5. The bells of St Erme in Cornwall - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b061pg7m

6. Choral Evensong from King's and St John's Choirs in King's College, Cambridge
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b061224r

7. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060fx8s

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
9. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
South Carolina:Prayers from Lent and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS
10. Sunday Programme - with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b061pg7t

Food for thought
11. Letter to my younger self - Bear Grylls
http://tinyurl.com/qbefrme
Ten Years on - Clive Field - BRIN
http://tinyurl.com/nrhjra6

FINALLY
12. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth - Stanford - Kampen Boys Choir [from the Netherlands, one of the recent choirs formed in the English Tradition]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJ8bOuC7Ko

If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved.
Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
For the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved.
[from Romans 10:9-10]

God bless you

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

Masure

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Harvey Cox

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Brevard S. Childs

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Monday, July 13, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 13th July 2015

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