WORSHIP
1. The bells of St. Mary's, Andover in Hampshire - BBC Radio 4
2. Choral Evensong from St Paul's Cathedral - BBC Radio 3
3. Sunday Holy Communion livestreamed from St Helena's Church, Beaufort, South Carolina at 10:15 am Eastern Time, 3:15 pm London Time
4. Sunday Service from St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney
5. Choral Services from the Chapels of King's College, Cambridge
and Trinity College, Cambridge
and St John's College, Cambridge
and New College, Oxford
6. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
SERMONS AND TALKS
7. How to tell others about your faith - Toby Flint - St Peter's Brighton Audio [1 Corinthians 2:1-5]
8. The God who requires repentance - Hugh Palmer - All Souls Audio [Jonah 3]
9. Holiness - Kevin deYoung - St Andrew's Leyland
Session 1 [Hebrews 12]
Session 2 [Romans 12]
10. Various sermons available
All Souls, Langham Place
their 4,000 sermon searchable archive
St James the Less, Pimlico
Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham Alabama
PRAYER
Please pray for the Church of England at this critical time; for the persecuted church and for Nigeria, Kenya, Iran, Pakistan, Gaza; and for the diocese of South Carolina.
11. Topical Prayers - Church of England
Prayers for the Church of England - Lent and Beyond
Nigeria: 20 Nigerian churches destroyed during violent March - WWM
Kenya: Six dead in gun attack on church near Mombasa - CSW
Iran: Prison sentences for six Christians upheld on appeal - CSW
Pakistan: Sawan Masih appeals blasphemy death sentence - CSW
Near East: The 'forgotten faithful' of Gaza - Christian Today
CURRENT AFFAIRS
12. Sunday Programme - current affairs with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
13. Food for thought
Christianity is a religion for losers - J John
A fight of faith: The Church of England and the First World War - Christian Today
The Church must not let the State shape its understanding of right and wrong - Rob James - Christian Today
Millennials and the false 'gospel of nice' - Daniel Darling - CNN
Nine Thoughts on Celebrity Pastors, Controversy, the New Calvinism, Etc - Kevin de Young - GC
Watch as 1000 years of European borders change
Carrying the Cross during Holy Week - Christian Today
FINALLY
14. Facing the Canon with Canon Andrew White - Philo Trust Interview with J John
15. This Easter let's win souls for Christ - Billy Graham
more
16. Tiny Sydney - Fillippo Rivetti Vimeo
On Kevin DeYoung’s ‘Nine Thoughts’– The strong Baptist flavour of the New Calvinism in the US reflects a sincere search for a Christian practise that is integrative, profound, and true. The worst problems– (1) Its ‘ressourcement’ of the Puritans warms my history-loving heart but is not balanced by any awareness of the theology of Karl Barth and those who have followed him, even though it is well-represented in the stronger evangelical seminaries and fruitful in practise; (2) ‘Newcal’ complementarianism starts with a fair assessment of the fragility of male development, but often addresses that fragility with prescriptions for evangelical women that alienate them and solve nothing. In fairness, many have found this movement to be a stepping stone away from ‘Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.’ Let’s hope that they keeping stepping on stones until they get to the other side of the stream. Or just dive into the ‘river’ 😉
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2014/03/18/9-thoughts-on-celebrity-pastors-new-calvinism-etc/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moralistic_therapeutic_deism
I don’t know if it is just me. but I appreciate the post above and the variety on offer but also I am finding it a little difficult to choose, whereas I personally like to be aware and take an interest in current affairs, I prefer a bit of a structure all be it online for theological reflection. This has of course been offered in the sermon thoughts, and although the sermon thoughts are there they are a bit disjointed for me. Not long to Easter now , what would you recommend for me to lead into Easter. I know the bible is a good place to start but I am sure you understand what I am saying. In terms of reading I would prefer something which does not distract from Easter ie something which concentrates on Christ and the characteristics we need to seek accept and keep hold of rather than the current social and cultural issues. I know they are important but I want to tune into God rather than the world at this time. That brings a whole new meaning to in the world not of the world , well I know I am in the world but I would like to try not to be of it! Just for a short while at least
Angela, the Cowley Fathers here offer these online videos for Lent and Holy Week, respectively–
http://ssje.org/ssje/lovelife/
http://ssje.org/ssje/school-of-prayer/
As you will see, the series for Lent is based on the Gospel of St John, and has a workbook and lectionary.
http://ssje.org/lovelife_folder/LoveLife_Workbook_Web.pdf
http://www.ssje.org/lovelife_folder/ReadingGospelofJohn.pdf