Sunday Worship and Other Links (16th November)

SERMONS AND TALKS
1. How shall we wait for the Lord to come? - Bishop Mouneer Anis - St Andrews Singapore Audio [1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and Matthew 25:1-13]
2. Faithful or Fickle - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Audio [Revelation 2:8-17]
3. The Answer to "Why" Is "Who" - Naghmeh Abedini, wife of imprisoned Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini with a letter from him [worth the wait]
4. Why and How Paul Invented "Christian Theology" - Bishop Tom Wright - Duke Divinity School video
Commentary for Sunday 16th November
5. Preaching Ideas and Commentary - Rev Peter Carrell
6. The Sunday Readings - Rev Stephen Trott
WORSHIP
7. The bells of St. Mary's Lamberhurst in Kent - BBC Radio 4
8. Choral Evensong from Durham Cathedral - BBC Radio 3
9. Sunday Holy Communion livestreamed from St Helena's Church, Beaufort, South Carolina at 10:15 am Eastern Time, 3:15 pm London Time
10. Sunday Worship from Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church in Birmingham - BBC Radio 4
11. Sunday Hour for Prisoners Sunday - BBC Radio 2
12. Choral services from the chapels of King's College Cambridge
and Trinity College, Cambridge
and St John's College, Cambridge
and New College, Oxford
PRAYER
Please pray for the Ebola Crisis and for those working for a cure; for Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Iraq; for the persecuted church and in particular in Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, China and North Korea; for peace in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.
13. Iraq Region:
Thought for the Day - Canon Andrew White - BBC
Analysis: Distinction between 'moderate Islamists' and 'militant extremists' is misleading for Western governments - WWM
more Media Reports from FRRME
14. Topical Prayers - Church of England
Nigeria: Christians tortured and killed in Mubi - Open Doors
Boko Haram militants 'seize Nigerian town of Chibok' - BBC News
Egypt: Jailed Egyptian convert awaits appeal hearing - WWM
Turkey: Second Turkish trial implicates authorities in planned attack on church leaders - WWM
China: Increased pressure on Chinese Christians to conform to Communism - Christian Today
North Korea: American prisoners released - Open Doors
Ukraine: Mounting violence against Christians - Release International
South Carolina: Prayers from Lent and Beyond
CURRENT AFFAIRS
15. Sunday Programme - current affairs with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
Food for thought
16. Prisons Week
Six Reasons Established Churches Should Plant Churches - Ed Stetzer - Christianity Today
Richard Dawkins has had his day, says Ravi Zacharias - Christian Today
How to work on your own - Medianet
Billy Graham answers 'What does it mean to follow Jesus? - Christian Today
John Stott's Prayer for the Next Generation - Trevin Wax - GC
FINALLY
17. I am Turkish and I follow Jesus - Lumindeo Vimeo
18. Set Apart - Worship Central
19. Japanese Snow Monkeys - J&K Schwarz

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