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Sunday Worship: Wrestling with Angels

28/09/2014

Wrestling with Angels

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, Wrestling with Angels

Bishop David Walker and Canon Stephen Shipley explore the significance of angels.

Bishop David Walker and Canon Stephen Shipley lead a service from Emmanuel Church, Didsbury with Manchester Chamber Choir exploring the significance of angels.

On the Eve of the Feast of Michael and All Angels, Bishop David Walker and Canon Stephen Shipley lead a service from Emmanuel Church, Didsbury with Manchester Chamber Choir exploring the significance of angels, God's messengers. In both Old and New Testaments they offer healing, and engage in battle. Meeting an angel is disturbing, challenging, life changing. For most it is ultimately strengthening and enriching. The struggle yields its reward; as it did for Jacob in one of the oldest stories in the Bible. This service thanks God, not for granting us pleasant pathways, but for being the one who we both wrestle with and for, and yet who is also the one fighting for us. Director of Music: Barry Rose; Producer: Stephen Shipley.

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