Bishop David Roller continues his Whole Earth Stories, this time telling the story of the Ten Lepers.
It’s a story of a miracle and a story of grace:
If you’d like to read this story in the Bible you can find it in Luke 17:11-19.
Another song to sing along to from the Rend Collective’s Art of Celebration album:
I come in simplicity
Longing for purity
To worship You
In spirit and truth
Only You
Lord strip it all away
‘Til only You remain
I’m coming back
To my first love
Only You
You’re the reason I sing
The reason I sing
Yes my heart will sing
How I love You
And forever I’ll sing
Forever I’ll sing
Yes my heart will sing
How I love You
A choice of two videos too, one with lyrics:
J. John continues his series of conversations called Facing the Canon; on this occasion he is talking to Nicky Gumbel.
Nicky Gumbel who is best known as the developer of Alpha and Vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) which is the largest Anglican Church in Britain.
This song feels appropriate for this week:
Come out of sadness
From wherever you’ve been
Come broken hearted
Let rescue begin
Come find your mercy
Oh sinner come kneel
Earth has no sorrow
That heaven can’t heal
Earth has no sorrow
That heaven can’t heal
So lay down your burdens
Lay down your shame
All who are broken
Lift up your face
Oh wanderer come home
You’re not too far
So lay down your hurt
Lay down your heart
Come as you are
While he was in Lancashire last weekend for the FM Annual Conference Bishop David Roller recorded one of his Whole Earth Stories alongside the sheep on the Carter’s farm.
In it he is retelling one of Jesus parables that can be found in Luke 15:1-7.
We have two new Talks Series for the Summer of 2014:
The Gospels are full of accounts of Jesus having life-changing meetings with different kinds of people. You may be one of those, or know someone who is. We look at six such meetings – what did Jesus say and what happened? What would Jesus say to us today?
Podcasts for this series can be found here.
In October we took a look at the first 7 chapters of this amazing letter. We are reminded that when this letter originally arrived in Rome, hardly anyone read it – there were so many other important things to read, Imperial Decrees, Exquisite Poetry, finely crafted philosophy, and yet in a very short time this letter eclipsed them all.
In the first half of the book Paul wrote about the contrasts of judgement with good news, faith with rules keeping, freedom with bondage, and war with peace. In the second half of the book he applies these truths to the day to day lives of his readers in a way which is as relevant now as it was then.
Podcasts for this series can be found here.
