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2024 Festival Notes

Festival Brochure

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Festival Brochure

Opening Worship, Morning worship: 9.00am, Monday 16 September

Morning worship with the Rev'd Canon Jutta Brueck and the Rev'd Canon Sam Wells.

Opening Worship, Morning worship: 9.00am Monday

Sam Wells' Seminar: 2.00pm, Monday 16 September

Notes to accompany Sam Wells' seminar 'Preaching on the Old Testament'.

Seminar notes

Stephen Cherry's Seminar: 2.00pm, Monday 16 September

Notes to accompany Stephen Cherry's seminar 'Preaching on Forgiveness'. 

Seminar notes

Jazz Vespers: 5.30pm, Monday 16 September

Vespers with the Rev'd Canon Jutta Brueck and the Very Rev'd Dr Mark Oakley.

Jazz Vespers: 5.30pm Monday

Opening Worship, Morning Worship: 9.00am, Tuesday 17 September

Opening worship with Doug Gay and Isabelle Hamley.

Opening Worship

Malcolm Guite's Plenary Lecture: 11.30am, Tuesday 17 September

Notes to accompany Malcolm Guite's Plenary Lecture.

Lecture notes

Ally Barrett's Seminar: 2.00pm, Tuesday 17 September

Notes to accompany Ally Barrett's seminar on Tuesday 17 September, 'Getting Your Hands Dirty: Bringing the Materiality of the Text to Life.'

Seminar notes

Closing Worship, Festival Eucharist: 4.00pm, Tuesday 17 September

Festival Eucharist with the Rev'd Jutta Brueck and the Rev'd Professor Barbara Brown Taylor.

Closing Worship, Festival Eucharist: 4.00pm Tuesday

Opening Worship, Choral Evensong: 5.00pm, Sunday 15 September

Choral Evensong with the Rev'd Canon Jutta Brueck and the Rev'd Canon Dr Paula Gooder.

Opening Worship, Choral Evensong: 5.00pm Sunday

Articles

Preaching resources (Church Times)

From your Christmas sermon to preaching on Last Things. Advice and inspiration from Church Times contributors.

churchtimes.co.uk/preaching-resources

Michaelmas ordinations: Preaching with relevance

When preaching, embody the biblical text, Margaret Cooling suggests

Read online: Preaching with relevance

What makes a good sermon? (Church Times)

Preaching tips from Paula Gooder, Mark Oakley, Kate Bruce, Doug Gay, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Stephen Cottrell, Timothy Radcliffe OP and Sandra Millar.

Read online: What makes a good sermon?

Women's Voices (The Preacher)

Libby Lane on learning to hear God in women's voices.

Read online: Women's Voices

Preaching and hymns (Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology)

In this brief essay, we will consider ways that hymns and preaching work together within worship.

Read online: Preaching and hymns

Apps

Preacher's Companion

The sermon-planning tool from the team behind the Canterbury Preacher's Companion.

See app

Common Worship Lectionary

Keep the Church of England's pattern of daily Bible readings to hand with the official Common Worship Lectionary app for iPhone, iPad and Android (4.0+).

www.chpublishing.co.uk/app/lectionary

Reflections for Daily Prayer

Make Bible study part of your daily routine with these reflections from leading Anglican writers, ministers and theologians. iOS and Android (4.0+).

www.chpublishing.co.uk/app/reflections-for-daily-prayer

The Church Times App

The world's leading Anglican newspaper on your phone or tablet: church news, in-depth features, all the latest clergy jobs and more. The app is free to current Church Times subscribers, but also available with an app-only subscription.

Church Times App

Books on preaching

How to Preach: Times, seasons, texts and contexts

In How to Preach, Samuel Wells goes beyond the arts and disciplines of preparing, crafting and delivering sermons, to explore preaching as an act of worship and prayer.

 

How to Preach

The Difficult Words of Jesus

As well as telling parables and stories, giving teachings on how to discern questions of ethics and human nature, and offering beatitudes for comfort and encouragement, Jesus also spoke words and flung insults that followers then and now have found difficult, to say the least.

The Difficult Words of Jesus

Stations of the Resurrection: Encounters with the Risen Christ

The New Testament gospel writers record nineteen resurrection appearances, from the first encounter with Mary Magdalene on Easter morning to Paul’s life-changing experience on the Damascus road.

Stations of the Resurrection
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