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Christian Social Witness of Roger Harned and other Talk of JESUS .com authorsChristian Social Witness has increasingly become about SOCIAL MEDIA platforms & sharing live preaching & local Bible studies virtually. Stories in this category address 21st c. Christian issues of communication. Here’s where I need your help:
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  • Sinclair Ferguson – 27 Sep. 2013 (rebroadcast)

    Sinclair Ferguson – 27 Sep. 2013 (rebroadcast)

    The following is a conversation with a pastor, one of the most esteemed theologians  of our day on retiring from the pulpit, passing on the baton of ministry to others & of his upcoming books and teaching.

    I recommend this to any Pastor, Elder, Deacon or Theology student (as am I).

    It will require an hour of thoughtful quiet time, followed by prayer of application.

    Roger

    http://www.ligonier.org/blog/google-hangout-sinclair-ferguson-september-27/?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FergusonHangout-September2013

    In addition to being Senior Minister, Dr. Ferguson is Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. A graduate of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, he is the author of some two dozen books, has authored numerous articles and has contributed to various symposia. His writing interests have ranged from works of scholarship to books for children. He has served as minister of two congregations in Scotland, one on Unst, the most northerly inhabited island in the United Kingdom, and the other at the center of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. He has served more than twenty years as a seminary professor and is currently on the faculty of Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, Texas as well as part time faculty of Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia.

    Source: Sermon Audio

    I recommend Dr. Sinclair’s books and teaching heartily.

    Roger Harned 

  • Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney

    I have had on my desktop for a month an obituary (or sorts) where I wanted to honor a great poet who lived above the division and violence of politics and religion in Ireland.  (I had originally thought, “Northern Ireland,” but that is not how he thought of it anymore than identifying English as Britain.)

    As is the case for our rebellious America, English is a language (even more than a culture or land) and Seamus Heaney was a master of the English language.

    A thoughtful look back at the life of this poet, writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature will reveal a man of faith who remains us to be faithful to God and country (in that order) in spite of what others think.

    I have always thought that evil leaders are evil leaders and thugs are thugs.

    Men of God must live above the fray.

    It matters not whether they divide Ireland or America.

    It matters not if evil men would separate north from south or the church east from west.

    Seamus Heaney remained above it all as example for Republican and Democrat, Conservative and Liberal, Catholic and Protestant.

    I expect to meet men like this in reunion with both faithful Catholics & dear Protestants in Heaven (as others may meet with claimers from all churches and denominations in Hell.)

    God, Jesus Christ, and relationship with the Holy Spirit ought to rule every man and guide every country; certainly churches. Let us also remain about the fray, answerable to a faithful and forgiving God who sent Christ to the Cross for all who believe.

    Here is my tribute (not to N. Ireland, not to Britain, not to Catholic, not to Protestant, but to the man and the poet)

    To Seamus Heaney:

    a man, a poet, an author

    Irish not north or south

    English not bound by borders

    English by his craft of language

    Christian unrestrained by division

    Christian by example of Christ 

     

    Now as news come in

    of each neighbourly murder

    we pine for ceremony,

    customary rhythms:

    the temperate footsteps

    of a cortege, winding past

    each blinded home.

     

    Source: BBC

    Additional article below & link to reviews of the many Seamus Heaney books.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23895582

    http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Seamus+Heaney

     

  • ‘Lord, when?

    Matthew 25: “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’

    What did you do? [3:03 min.]