St Edmund's Roundhay: Recent Episodes
St Edmund's Church
We conclude our series of reflections on prayer by bringing our speaking, listening and actions together and recognizing all of God's created order as holy. This week we look at how we can 'pray without ceasing' by practising the presence of God.
The fifth in our 6-week Lent 2021 podcast series reflecting on prayer.
This week we look again at listening to God - but this time communing in silence and contemplation - praying heart to heart, without words.
We turn to some of the mystics and spiritual writers who have endeavoured to articulate the inexpressible, to help us understand a little more about this type of praying.
Having spent the last two weeks looking at how we can speak to God, this week we focus on listening to what God has to say to us- and how we can do that through Scripture.
Journey with us as we consider how God speaks to us through the written word, and various ways of reading scripture that can help us listen.
This is the third in our 6-week Lent series of reflections on prayer, and is entitled: 'Speaking freely: Praying with the psalms'.
In this week's episode we look at how the psalmists prayed - and how their raw honesty and vulnerability show us how we can bring our real selves to God, just as we are.
Week 2 of our 6-week Lent series of reflections on prayer.
In this episode we acknowledge that we are apprentices of Jesus, and look at:
1. how and when he prayed and for whom;
2. Jesus' teaching on prayer;
3. listening in to the prayers Jesus prayed himself.
A prompt sheet for reflection to accompany this episode was published to St Edmunds Roundhay's Facebook page on Monday 1 March 2021.
Week 1 podcast in our 6-week Lenten series of reflections on prayer.
Before we start looking at different ways of engaging in prayer, we take stock of the current state of our relationship with prayer and with God to find our own starting point.
A prompt sheet for reflection to accompany this episode was published to St Edmunds Roundhay Facebook page on Monday 21 Feb 2021.
A story of a sailor, financial services advisor, husband, and father navigating life and faith.
Join us as we continue our series on Spiritual Disciplines, this time thinking about feasting.
In this episode, Chris takes us through the spiritual discipline of prayer and offers some different ways of praying.
We continue in our Spiritual Disciplines series as Sarah takes us through the practice of silence and solitude.
Real-life stories of faithful inspiration. This week we hear about Joyce and her work with deaf children from all walks of life, faith, and culture.
The second episode of the series on Spiritual Disciplines.
This time we're exploring Scripture Reading
The first in a four part series on spiritual disciplines.
Rev'd Chris Balding explores the spiritual discipline of Sabbath.