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Truro Cathedral choir impresses Britain’s Got Talent audience

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Truro Cathedral choir impresses Britain’s Got Talent audience

Led by conductor Christopher Gray, the singers performed ‘Can you feel the love tonight’ by Elton John from The Lion King soundtrack.

The award-winning choristers finished their song and were met with a standing ovation from the audience and all the judges.

Judge, Simon Cowell said their performance was: “Absolutely stunning.”

All four judges said yes to the choir going through to the next round of the talent show.

Truro Cathedral Choir has an unbroken tradition dating back to the 1880s when services took place in a wooden shed whilst Truro Cathedral was under construction.

Nowadays, the choir usually performs with its twelve adult professional singers made up of lay vicars and choral scholars, joined by either its eighteen boy choristers or its eighteen girl choristers.

For the ITV performance on Saturday, it was the boy and girl choristers performing.

Mr Gray told Simon Cowell on Saturday why they chose to take part in BGT: “I guess the show’s done so much for variety and bringing it back into the mainstream and we think that something really traditional can be part of that.”

In addition to singing at seven cathedral services each week, Truro Cathedral Choir perform regular concerts and broadcasts, including regular live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and has made several TV appearances over recent years.

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Seven Considerations for the Church Leader Who Receives an Anonymous Letter

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On occasion a church leader at Church Answers will share with the community that he or she received an anonymous letter. The leaders are inevitably hurt, and they are frustrated because they have no way to respond.

Over the years, I have seen a common theme with anonymous letters. I can best delineate it as seven considerations.

Most all church leaders will eventually receive an anonymous letter. It goes with the job and the ministry role. Even though it does not take away the sting of the letter, knowing others have gone through it makes it more bearable.
The typical content of an anonymous letter reflects a hurt or mad church member who has unmet and/or unrealistic expectations. Some church members have weird ideas about what church should be like and how church leaders should act. The cowardly church members will express their frustrations anonymously.
The toss-it principle is still good counsel. It has been common for church leaders to dispose of anonymous letters as soon as possible. Some pastors and leaders have an assistant who reads letters that come to the office. That assistant may be instructed to dispose of anonymous letters before the church leader ever sees it.
The best way church leaders handle anonymous letters is to pray for their own hearts. These evil letters can be an incredible source of distraction and discouragement. The pastor or other church leader must pray for his or her own heart. God can certainly handle the situations we think are nearly impossible to handle, such…

Commencement speaker pays student debt for graduating class

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Commencement speaker pays student debt for graduating class

There are more than four thousand colleges and universities in the United States. I’m guessing that none of them heard a commencement address quite like the one delivered at Morehouse College yesterday.

Robert F. Smith, a billionaire investor known as the wealthiest black man in America, told the crowd that he and his family would pay off the entire graduating class’s student debt. David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse, called Mr. Smith’s generosity “a liberation gift, meaning this frees these young men from having to make their career decisions based on their debt. This allows them to pursue what they are passionate about.”

Mr. Smith’s gift may be worth about $40 million, according to Morehouse officials.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love”

Imagine that you were one of the 396 young men graduating from Morehouse yesterday. I can think of three reasons you might decline Mr. Smith’s remarkable generosity.

You could do so out of a self-reliant determination to pay your debts yourself. You could refuse to feel indebted to Mr. Smith. Or you could consider yourself unworthy of such grace.

Now let’s consider Robert Smith’s gift to the Morehouse graduates as a parable.

The Creator of the universe considers our eternal life worth the death of his Son: “For our sake [God] made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Our Father loves us unconditionally: “Neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:37–39).

God’s love for us is unwavering: “His steadfast love endures forever” (Psalm 136:26). It “surpasses knowledge” (Ephesians 3:19). It is inclusive: “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we…

Joyce Meyer Devotional 20 May 2019 — Winning God’s Way

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Prayer Points on Today’s Open Heaven 20 May 2019

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Royal Priesthood – Anglican Communion 20 May 2019

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Keys To Family Dominion (Part 2) by Pastor Faith Oyedepo

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Compete with Yourself by Pastor David Ibiyeomie

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MFM Daily Devotional 20 May 2019 – The Spirit Life (I)

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