Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
The world, our lives, our daily bread, our loved ones, our opportunities, our challenges and difficulties—all are gifts. Even the innate capacity to receive is a gift. There is not a single moment in life in which we are not given something. We can begin to notice this; we can in…
friends, FOES and families - Now Laban had two daughters: Leah and Rachel
friends, FOES and families - Now Laban had two daughters: Leah and Rachel
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Now Laban had two daughters: Leah and Rachel Genesis 29-35 God of our youth, our maturity and our ageing, through all the stages of our lives, help us to live in harmony with one another and ourselves...
friends, FOES and families - You are the man! David and Bathsheba
friends, FOES and families - You are the man! David and Bathsheba
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
You are the man! David and Bathsheba 2 Samuel 11-13 Faithful God, lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil. Imagine springtime in ancient Israel. The brief explosion of blossom is already over, and the land will soon be parched and cruel. David, the great king, is sti…
Prayer: Generous and caring God
Prayer: Generous and caring God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Generous and caring God Generous and caring God, we come to you in answer to your invitation to satisfy our thirst for knowledge and our hunger for your love and guidance. We come because you have promised to be faithful to us and we promise to try to live in a way that r…
Poem: Be careful you don’t fall
Poem: Be careful you don’t fall
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Be careful you don’t fall Standing on high moral ground is not necessarily an achievement; more like providing a target to be knocked over by personal self-righteous pomposity. Time after time, those who have claimed to be above God’s law, or to have no recognition of its e…
Open with God Book - July - NCH (week 29)
Open with God Book - July - NCH (week 29)
by Christine Odell
July – NCH Action for Children (week 29) Calendar of Prayers Reading Matthew 18.2-7 This prayer could be adapted for other children’s charities. Have a small display of pictures, information and/or small items associated with childhood. Living God, we thank you for the mysterious…
Open with God Book - June - National Carer's (week 24)
Open with God Book - June - National Carer's (week 24)
by Christine Odell
June – National Carers’ Week (week 24) Calendar of Prayers Reading Ruth 1.5b-18 Creator God, you designed us for one another, for companionship, love, nurture and care. When we read of the life of Jesus, a life of your love in action, we see your love for us writ large on every p…
Open with God Book - January - Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January)
Open with God Book - January - Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January)
by Christine Odell
January – Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) Calendar of Prayers Reading: Psalm 77 Suffering God, at times we find it hard to praise you. There are things that happen in our world that we do not even want to think about,..
Open with God Book - July - Seafarers (week 29)
Open with God Book - July - Seafarers (week 29)
by Christine Odell
July – Seafarers (week 29) Calendar of Prayers Reading Psalm 107.23-31 Play some sea music or sounds of the sea and ask those present to close their eyes and picture the sea in one of its many moods. Creator God, when we picture the sea we want to praise and adore you because it …
Prayers of Intercession for Lent 1
Prayers of Intercession for Lent 1
by Christine Dutton
Prayers for others and for ourselves for the first Sunday in Lent. These prayers were written to go alongside a service for the first Sunday in Lent, based on the account of the wilderness experience of Jesus in Luke 4: 1-13. The theme of the reflection is that within the wildern…
Prayers of Intercession for Martin Luther King Day
Prayers of Intercession for Martin Luther King Day
by Christine Dutton
Prayers of intercession written for Martin Luther King Day These prayers were written for chapel worship at Martin Luther King House, Manchester, January 2013 Challenging and Inspiring God, who has raised up men and women through whom your voice has been heard and your love has b…
Open with God Book - December - International Day of Disabled Persons