Join Andrew Williams as he looks at "Coram Deo" - Living in the Presence of God

Episode 4: Part 4- RECEIVE

We began with “Realize”…understanding that in love, God is trying to get our attention… Today let’s close this series by learning to RECEIVE from God.

Coram Deo is a Latin phrase translated "in the presence of God." To live in the presence of God is to know God’s voice — to walk so closely with Him that we can literally hear Him.
 
Over the past three weeks, we have been considering Moses and his relationship with God. We have looked at realizing that Jesus is constantly seeking to get our attention and learning to recognize the Lord’s voice. Today let’s close this series by learning to receive from God.

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With Special Guest: With Special Guest Revd. Wendy Dixon, of  Christ the Redeemer Anglican.

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Join Andrew Williams as he looks at "Coram Deo" - Living in the Presence of God

Episode 3: Part 3- RECOGNIZE

Let’s begin with “Realize”…that in love, God is trying to get your attention…

So, if God is speaking continuously, directly and personally to us, how do we turn up the volume? In seeking to answer this question, we have been considering Moses and his relationship with God. Last week we considered the extraordinary truth that Jesus is constantly seeking to get our attention. Upon that amazing realization, in an array of voices that compete for our attention and our souls, how do we recognize the Lord’s voice?

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With Special Guest: With Special Guest Revd. Eliud Mwangi of Saint John Anglican Church in Sutton, MA

Thank you for listening. The Faros is presented by the Anglican Diocese in New England. Be sure to share with a friend, connect with us at thefaros.org, join our email list, and let us know how we can pray for you. May the peace of God be with you today.

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Join Andrew Williams as he looks at "Coram Deo" - Living in the Presence of God

Episode 2: Part 2- REALIZE

Coram Deo is a Latin phrase translated "in the presence of God." To live in the presence of God is to know God’s voice — to walk so closely with Him that we can literally hear Him.

Let’s begin with “Realize”…that in love, God is trying to get your attention… 

Our hearing God begins with the realization that, in love, He is trying to get our attention. And, just as He did with Moses, He will take the ordinary in our lives and imbue it with something extraordinary, something abnormal within the normal, something exceptional within the ordinary.

The Bible would seek to assure us that His voice is love, mercy, grace, power, peace, healing, wisdom and joy. How can we tune our hearts to hear the wonderful voice of our loving Father?
 
Does the idea of knowing God’s voice sound like a presumptuous idea? A dangerous idea? Perhaps even a foolish idea? But what if the human system cannot properly function without such a close walk with God? What if it’s just not possible to undertake human existence without hearing God? Dallas Willard wrote, “The fine texture as well as the grand movements of life show our need to hear God."

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With Special Guest: With Special Guest Canon Tim Clayton, Canon Missioner of the Anglican Diocese in New England; Rector of Christ the Redeemer Anglican.


Thank you for listening. The Faros is presented by the Anglican Diocese in New England. Be sure to share with a friend, connect with us at thefaros.org, join our email list, and let us know how we can pray for you. May the peace of God be with you today.

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Join Andrew Williams as he looks at "Coram Deo" - Living in the Presence of God

Episode 1: Part 1- In the Presence

Coram Deo is a Latin phrase translated "in the presence of God." To live in the presence of God is to know God’s voice — to walk so closely with Him that we can literally hear Him.

The Bible would seek to assure us that His voice is love, mercy, grace, power, peace, healing, wisdom and joy. How can we tune our hearts to hear the wonderful voice of our loving Father?
 
Does the idea of knowing God’s voice sound like a presumptuous idea? A dangerous idea? Perhaps even a foolish idea? But what if the human system cannot properly function without such a close walk with God? What if it’s just not possible to undertake human existence without hearing God? Dallas Willard wrote, “The fine texture as well as the grand movements of life show our need to hear God."

Join us for this special series.

With Special Guest: Rev. Amy Howard of All Saints Anglican in Amesbury, MA. For more info connect with All Saints at https://www.allsaintsamesbury.org/

Thank you for listening. The Faros is presented by the Anglican Diocese in New England. Be sure to share with a friend, connect with us at thefaros.org, join our email list, and let us know how we can pray for you. May the peace of God be with you today.

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Join Andrew Williams as he concludes our look at Victor Hugo’s classic story, Les Miserables.

Episode 4: Jean ValJean Part 2 - "To See the Face of God is to Receive the Gift of Self-Giving Love."

The fourth part of this series on Victor Hugo’s - Les Miserables - this extraordinary tale that speaks of our homesickness for God and our ache for mercy and restoration.

Last time we discovered that to see the face of God is to receive the gift of mercy and grace. For Hugo this is the cornerstone upon which everything else is built - but he has more to show us. For Hugo, to see the face of God is also to love another person as God has loved us – mercifully, selflessly and sacrificially. To see the face of God is to receive the gift of self-giving love.

With Special Guest: Carol Powers of the Harvard/Boston based group, The Community Ethics Committee. For more info connect with them at Medical Ethics and Me

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Join Andrew Williams as he reflects on Victor Hugo’s classic story, Les Miserables.

Episode 3: Jean ValJean Part 1 - "To Love Another Person is to See the Face of God"
The third part of this series on Victor Hugo’s - Les Miserables - this extraordinary tale that speaks of our homesickness for God and our ache for mercy and restoration.

But Hugo is not a theologian. In his own words “He did not study God; he was dazzled by Him.” In fact, he is first a poet and then a novelist, so the book is full of symbolism and allusion and like any good poem – something catches our heart’s eye, and we are invited to dig out its meaning.

One of these jewels, poignantly held out for us at the end of the musical – is Hugo’s conclusion, “To love another person is to see the face of God.”  Hugo has gone directly to Genesis 33:10, where, full of love for his brother, Jacob says to Esau, “For to see your face is like seeing the face of God.”

With Special Guest Leah Mwangi of Saint John Anglican Church in Sutton, MA

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Join Andrew Williams as he reflects on Victor Hugo’s classic story, Les Miserables and The God Who Reaches Out Into the Darkness of Our Lives.

Episode 2: Cosette - The Plight of the Orphans
The Pulitzer Prize winning author, Upton Sinclair wrote, “Victor Hugo’s Les Miserable is one of the half dozen greatest novels of the world because it profoundly portrays our deepest hurts and deepest hopes.”

Hugo, with his innate instinct for God’s love and mercy for a broken humanity, paints us a picture of God who would come to us in the darkness, who hears our cry for mercy, the same God who would in an instant take up all our burdens, settle all our debts and set us free from all that holds us in bondage and fear; our God who promises to walk with us forever, holding us aloft as His precious son or daughter. And it gives Him pleasure to do this.

And like the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited – we recognize this story – we see our orphan place in it and somehow, we just know this love is true.

With Special Guest Katie Williams

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Join Andrew Williams as he reflects on Victor Hugo’s classic story, Les Miserables and The God who Refuses to Abandon Us.

Episode 1: Fantine

The Pulitzer Prize winning author, Upton Sinclair wrote, “Victor Hugo’s Les Miserable is one of the half dozen greatest novels of the world because it profoundly portrays our deepest hurts and deepest hopes.”

Is author Victor Hugo telling us that Fantine's life ends in despair and all her efforts (including those to save the life of her most precious daughter) have come to nothing?
In a brutal world - Hugo desires to give us a very different message. It is not at all obvious at this point, but Hugo is revealing to us a God who refuses to abandon us.

With Special Guest Rev. Dan Wolf of Rise Portland Anglican Church.
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