Pentecost - God has come- a story for a school asembly
Pentecost - God has come- a story for a school asembly
by Sally Coleman
God has come…… Pentecost re-told for a Primary School assembly Cast: Narrator, Peter, and at least 5 disciples (children can be drawn in to help in this assembly) Ribbons or flags can be used to represent flames Narrator: Jesus friends were waiting and praying, it seemed like the…
Good Friday Service
Good Friday Service
by Christine Odell
Good Friday Service A service of linked Call to Worship, hymns, Old and New Testament readings, prayers and meditations Call to Worship: Today is a solemn day. The day when we remember the sufferings and death of Christ our Lord upon the cross: the total self-giving of Love for t…
Open with God Book - Good Friday Prayer
Open with God Book - Good Friday Prayer
by Christine Odell
Good Friday Reading: Mark 15.20b-39 or Mark 15.6-39 Place a cross somewhere prominent and ask those present to reflect on it and the feelings of the first disciples on Good Friday. Nothing can prepare us, loving God, for the reality of this day. We, Christ’s disciples, had not …
Mark The People's Commentary - From the Least to the Greatest
Mark The People's Commentary - From the Least to the Greatest
by BRF - Dick France
From the Least to the Greatest Mustard Seed Mustard seed is proverbially tiny (see Matthew 17:20), and yet it produces ‘the greatest of all shrubs’. This is not, of course, the puny ‘mustard-and-cress’ that we grow in little plastic boxes, but a garden herb which in Palestine com…
Open with God Book - Fund-Raising
Open with God Book - Fund-Raising
by Christine Odell
FUND-RAISING Prayers for Various Occasions Reading 2 Corinthians 8.1-9 Ask those present to hold a coin in their hands. Loving God, you know what a big thing money is in our lives: if we have too little we are eaten up with worry; if we have plenty our consciences feel uneasy...
Mark The People's bible commentary - Getting Rid of the Son
Mark The People's bible commentary - Getting Rid of the Son
by BRF - Dick France
GETTING RID of the SON In the last study we heard Jesus’ claim, by implication, to divine authority for what he was doing. Now the same claim is made, this time in the form of a fictional story with a transparent meaning. His opponents know exactly what he means (v. 12), but they…
Genesis for the scientific age
Genesis for the scientific age
by Jonathan Miller
This is a re-writting of the Genesis creation account for the scientific age which I wrote for a module at college. Exerpt-- In the beginning Jesus was with God and Jesus was God. God imagined, Jesus spoke and the Holy Spirit moved and created a speck, smaller than a grain of san…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Action in Messiah and Spirit
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Action in Messiah and Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Action in Messiah and Spirit ROMANS 8.1-4 PAUL FOR EVERYONE ROMANS PART 1 When we lived in the English Midlands, I was once visited by two men researching a potential television programme. There had been a lot of talk about ‘Middle England’, they said. Since I lived more or…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - God's Flexibility
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - God's Flexibility
by SPCK - John Goldingay
God’s Flexibility NUMBERS 8: 5-9: 14 A woman came to talk to me after church two weeks ago. In the sermon I had described the way the Psalms invite us in prayer to appeal to God’s compassion, grace, and steadfast love, especially when we know we are in the wrong in relation to Go…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - God's Love, God's Power - In Us
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - God's Love, God's Power - In Us
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PRAYERS OF PAUL GOD’S LOVE, GOD’S POWER – IN US Ephesians 3: 14-21 Love and power, power and love: these are the themes of perhaps two-thirds of the novels, plays and poems ever written. The love of power has laid waste continents and empires. …
All Desires Known - God's Fruitful Word Collect
All Desires Known - God's Fruitful Word Collect
by SPCK - Janet Morley
GOD’S FRUITFUL WORD Collect Isaiah 55.1–11; Luke 1.46b–55; Luke 4.14–21; 2 Timothy 3.14—4.5 O God our disturber, whose speech is pregnant with power and whose word will be fulfilled... Advent 3 (ABC); Epiphany 3 (C); Easter Vigil (ABC); Easter 6 (B); Proper 3 (B); Proper 10 (AC);…
God Unkown-Prayer
God Unkown-Prayer
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God unknown Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 17: 22-31 In Athens, Paul found statues of many gods and one to an ‘unknown god’. So we pray today for those many people who have not yet found God in their lives. God, we know you and we are known to you. We pray now … for those wh…
There is a season - Good Friday Liturgy
There is a season - Good Friday Liturgy
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
GOOD FRIDAY Were you there when they crucified my Lord? We gather in the chairs by the font. Hymn Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified m…
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