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We visited the Columbia (SC) Museum of Art to view 45 paintings of the Hudson River School of Painters on loan from the New York Historical Society. Antoinette and I also viewed them at an exhibition in the National Gallery in London. The magnificent landscapes of...
DEATH DEFEATED
Psalm 16 is the third psalm used by Handel in Messiah. It is also used in the New Testament book of the Acts of the Apostles by St. Peter (Acts 2) and St. Paul (Acts 13) to present the Gospel to their contemporaries. Why did they use this psalm? Jesus himself used...
HEART-BROKEN
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Antoinette and I walked past St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, next to our hotel in the West End of London, and noticed that there would be a performance of Handel’s Messiah that evening, by the choir of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial...
THE TEARS OF GOD
Handel uses four psalms in the Messiah. Psalm 22:7,8 is used to describe the religious leaders’ ridicule of Jesus during his agony on the Cross as quoted in the Gospels. “All they that see him laugh him to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads,...
STUDENT MINISTRY
My responsibilities at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London included The Wednesday Club, for people under 35 years of age who were studying or working in business or professions. We met at the Waldegrave Hall, Duke Street in Marylebone and Mayfair connecting...
ALL SOULS CHURCH SERVING IN 1967
All Souls Clubhouse My ministry at All Souls, Langham Place, London began with John Stott giving me two notebooks with instructions for me to record every visit I made to parishioners and to report to him on them from time to time. In that way he could keep track on...
MY LONDON NEIGHBORHOOD
In September 1967 I moved into the All Souls Rectory at 12 Weymouth Street, W.1. Built in 1780, thus Georgian, by the original Portland Estate, it was designed by Robert Adam who was the architect for much of the area. It is the only original house in the block and is...
CALLING AND PROVIDED FOR BY GOD Part Three
St. Paul's Cathedral, London In the Spring of 1967 I was approaching the end of my time at Durham University where I was writing a thesis on Politics and the New Testament for my M.A. under the supervision of Charles Cranfield, who wrote a magisterial commentary on...
CALLING AND PROVIDED FOR BY GOD Part Two
In April 1967 I attended the first National Evangelical Congress at Keele University with some 1,000 delegates, including 110 theological students of which I was one. There were 30 observers from the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and other churches. The purpose was...
THE GIFT
I met Antoinette on the steps of All Souls Church, Langham Place, London in September 1969. She had come to visit her sister whose husband was serving with the U.S. Navy Support Activity and stationed near the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square. I had met them a week...
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