Honest to God - video series
The new video for Chapter 3 has been published: How to encounter God
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Honest to God - Lecture by Rev. Jonathan Clatworthy (2013)
Honest to God I have just discovered this lecture by Rev Jonathan Clatworthy on 'Honest to God' by JAT Robinson. It is measured and knowledgable.
The message of the Church to labouring men (and women)
This sermon preched by Rev Charles Kingsley 22nd June 1851 will soon be available on the blog. Apologies for delay in further posts.
The Church and the Public House
The Church and the Public House Rev. Thomas Hancock Date: 3 rd Sunday after Easter 1888 (An extract from the sermon ‘The Church and the Public House: or Temperance not to be used as a Cloak of Maliciousness’ from Welsby (1970)) Text: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the King. 1 Peter 2: 16-17 As it is the special temptation of the free man to abuse his liberty to libertinism in thought and conduct, so it is the special temptation of the professional temperance-man to rush into the wildest degrees of tyrannical intemperance. It has become a truism that he exceeds all the rest of mankind in his intoxication. He has to be particularly on guard lest his temperance, like the other’s liberty, be used ‘as a cloak of maliciousness’. The maliciousness of the temperance man, as the outsiders view it, assumes two forms – firstly, a most unreasonable social or ra...