Lectionary 04/05/2025
- Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
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by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
The Women Come to the Tomb
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by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Peter and John Come Running
Peter and John Come Running
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
The Disciples Refuse to Believe
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by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
The Chief Priests Concoct a Cover Story
The Chief Priests Concoct a Cover Story
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
The Emmaus Road
The Emmaus Road
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Back to Jerusalem
Back to Jerusalem
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Thomas Doubts
Thomas Doubts
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Thomas and Jesus
Thomas and Jesus
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Thomas States His Case
Thomas States His Case
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Jesus Appears to Seven Fisherman-Breakfast on the Beach
Jesus Appears to Seven Fisherman-Breakfast on the Beach
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Jesus Reinstates Peter
Jesus Reinstates Peter
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
The Ascension-Jesus Returns to Heaven
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by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Peter's Call
Peter's Call
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
The Day of Pentecost
The Day of Pentecost
by Dave Hopwood
The Day of Pentecost (Short Sketch) The disciples returned to the city, back to the room where they had been hiding. They stayed together, talking, praying, debating – and most of all – waiting for the next move. It came on the feast of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus had rise…
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Peter's Sermon
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
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by SPCK - N T Wright
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by SPCK - N T Wright
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by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus on the Beach John 21.1-8 The level of the lake has dropped now, but you can still sense what a lovely place it is. So much water is now taken out of the Sea of Galilee, and the River Jordan which feeds it and then flows from it, that even in the fifteen years since I first …
John for Everyone part 2 - Breakfast by the Shore
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by SPCK - N T Wright
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by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Third Sunday of Easter John 21.1-19 Gaze on another dawn, another occasion when at first all is in shadow until Jesus illuminates the day for the disciples. Gaze on another setting when things are going badly: if there are no fish, at best the disciples won’t eat, and at wo…
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by SPCK - N T Wright
The Third Sunday of Easter Acts 9.1–20 Revelation 5.11–14 John 21.1–19 John 21 contains in microcosmic form most of the elements of the previous narrative. We are back in Galilee, with Peter and his friends going fishing. Jesus reveals himself as he had done throughout. He feed…
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by SPCK - Jane Williams
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by SPCK - N T Wright
Worthy is the Lamb! Revelation 5.8-14 Think of it as another visit to the theatre. You are sitting in the dark when the drum begins. A slow, steady rhythm. It’s telling you something. It’s going somewhere. It builds up, louder and louder. Then the voices join in. Wild, excited si…
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Struck down and blinded by the light
by Andrew Pratt
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by Andrew Pratt
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by Marjorie Dobson
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by Andrew Pratt
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by Andrew Pratt
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by Colin Smith
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by David Middleton
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by SPCK - N T Wright
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by SPCK - N T Wright
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by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
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by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
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by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
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by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
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by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
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by BRF - Rona Orme
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by BRF - Stephen W. Need
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by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
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by BRF - John Birch
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by Twelvebaskets Ltd
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by SPCK - meda a a stamper
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by SPCK - meda a a stamper
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by Twelvebaskets Ltd
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LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B 2 Kings 5: 1-14 Psalm 30 Mark 1: 40-45 It is easy to understand why, in ancient times, leprosy was such a dread disease. It is an illness that has been described as a living death, and it ate away at the flesh, causing loss of sensati…
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Friday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Friday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Friday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God, for by your wounds we have been healed. Blessed be Jesus, friend and brother, sharer of our humanity, suffering One who knows our pain...
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - You Could Suddenly Break, and There Could Be No Healing
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - You Could Suddenly Break, and There Could Be No Healing
by SPCK - John Goldingay
You Could Suddenly Break, and There Could Be No Healing The news is full of the story of a soldier in the U.S. army who ran amok and killed sixteen people in Afghanistan. When we discussed it at our Lent group last night as we prayed a psalm for him and for his victims, one of th…
Jeremiah for everyone - Lucky Figs and Unlucky Figs
Jeremiah for everyone - Lucky Figs and Unlucky Figs
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Lucky Figs and Unlucky Figs We walked past a supermarket last night and marveled at the size of the truck delivering produce, and we wondered how quickly the supermarket would empty if there were a big earthquake (answer: about two hours)…
Luke for Everyone - The Magnificat: Mary's Song of Praise
Luke for Everyone - The Magnificat: Mary's Song of Praise
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Magnificat: Mary’s Song of Praise Luke 1.39-56 What would make you celebrate wildly, without inhibition? Perhaps it would be the news that someone close to you who’d been very sick was getting better and would soon be home. Perhaps it would be the news that your country had e…
Framed Image - Psalm 150:6a
Framed Image - Psalm 150:6a
by Revd Dr Michael Moon
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Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
by Mark Orriss 2
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LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 29thSunday in Ordinary Time Year B Job 38 v 1-7 Psalm 104 v 1-9, 24, 35c Hebrews 5 v 1-10 Mark 10 v 35-45 It was towards the end of Jesus’ earthly ministry, and his disciples were still arguing about greatness. James and John thought they were the greatest, and asked …
Times and Seasons - Resurrection God
Times and Seasons - Resurrection God
by Jan Berry
A communion prayer for Easter Prayer of Thanksgiving Resurrection God, meeting us in our questioning, our searching for what is real, our clinging to what we know, meet with us now in bread and wine. We give you thanks for this bread, broken and shared in the brokenness of our gr…
Times and Seasons - Saying Yes-A Prayer Of Thanksgiving
Times and Seasons - Saying Yes-A Prayer Of Thanksgiving
by Jan Berry
SAYING YES: A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Vulnerable God, Maker of the universe, we praise you that in the gift of Jesus you answer our human brokenness with your 'Yes' of love. In your promise to a peasant girl you say yes to our dreams of freedom. In the shabbiness of the stable you…
Times and Seasons - Vulnerability and Hope: Prayer of Thanksgiving
Times and Seasons - Vulnerability and Hope: Prayer of Thanksgiving
by Jan Berry
VULNERABILITY AND HOPE: A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING God, maker of the earth, we thank you for this broken bread; in its fragments we find you, sharing our vulnerability, waiting with us in patient helplessness and impatient rage. We thank you for our brokenness embodied in your comi…
Times and Seasons - A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Christmas Eve
Times and Seasons - A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Christmas Eve
by Jan Berry
A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING FOR CHRISTMAS EVE We praise you, God of wonder and mystery. We praise you in the excitement of anticipation, in the heartache of our longing, and the fulfilment of our dreams. Continues... ©Jan Berry
Open with God Book - Maundy Thursday Prayer
Open with God Book - Maundy Thursday Prayer
by Christine Odell
Maundy Thursday Reading: John 13.1-17 Creator God, we thank and praise you because you do not hold back from loving us; you took the risk of conceiving humankind and, in your generosity, gave us all that we need, asking of us only that we love you and one another... Taken from …
Open with God Book - Palm Sunday Prayer
Open with God Book - Palm Sunday Prayer
by Christine Odell
Palm Sunday Reading: Mark 11:1-10 Palm crosses to be held during the prayer. God of joyful hope, we celebrate your royal promises as we recollect Christ’s triumphal, palm-strewn entry into Jerusalem. Silence God of strange and amazing truth, we see your majesty in that joyous int…
Christmas Prayer:Thank You
Christmas Prayer:Thank You
by Sue Brown
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession Thank you, Lord for Mary. Thank you for her willingness to do what you asked of her, for the care she took of Jesus while he was a baby and as he grew up. Mary showed great faith in you, trusting you although the way ahead was hard. Remem…
Traces of Glory Year B - The Second Sunday Before Advent - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - The Second Sunday Before Advent - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
The Second Sunday Before Advent God of all power and might, give us grace to trust you in the darkness as well as in the light. In the face of danger and adversity be our strength and hope, that we may live and work to your praise and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is …
Echoing the Word - The common texts of the Eucharistic Prayer
Echoing the Word - The common texts of the Eucharistic Prayer
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
6 The common texts of the Eucharistic Prayer For all their variety, the Eucharistic Prayers of Common Worship have some common texts and share these with the eucharistic rites of other provinces and churches. These are an opening dialogue, a song usually called by its Latin name,…
Call to Worship
Call to Worship
by Jane Bingham
A call to worship for any occasion- Read each line in turn – various people from their seats Call to Worship Come Come to this place and be still Come with an open mind and giving heart Come to give thanks Come ready to share Come to experience the presence of God Come just as yo…
Praise The Lord!
Praise The Lord!
by Rose humphrey
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Colossians 1:11-12
Colossians 1:11-12
by BigBible
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With My WholeHeart - Psalm 139:23
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 139:23
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 139:23 This psalm speaks of the intimate knowledge God has of each of us. Jesus said as much, in that even the hairs on our head are numbered. There are no other words that match the truth and beauty of this prayer so allow me to say only why it always leaves my soul in a c…
Hymn: We will give thanks for the light we've received
Hymn: We will give thanks for the light we've received
by Michael Docker
We will give thanks for the light we've received; For we have found Christ who said if we believed Then we would see greater than yet we have seen - The things of God's Kingdom and all that they mean. We are beginning to turn from the past; For we have seen Christ's life show dea…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 23 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 23 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 23 Jeremiah 29.1, 4–7 2 Timothy 2.8–15 Luke 17.11–19 A sharp-edged summary of Paul’s gospel: King Jesus, raised from the dead, of David’s seed. The word ‘gospel’ itself, in Paul’s world, meant a royal proclamation; this explains why its heralds fall foul of the authorities…
Rhythms of remembering - Friday Night Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Friday Night Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
Midday and Night Prayer for all seasons Friday Night Prayer O Lord my God, my Saviour, by day and night I pray to you. For all the good I have seen and done today, I give thanks. For all my sins and omissions, I ask pardon...
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Sunday Evening Prayer Blessed are you, O God: in Jesus, crucified and risen, you have shown us your face. We worship you, O Holy One, present to Moses in the burning bush, to Isaiah in the temple,...
Rhythms of remembering - Wednesday Night Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Wednesday Night Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
Midday and Night Prayer for all seasons Wednesday Night Prayer Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. Psalm 116.7 For all the good I have seen and done today, I give thanks...
Great God, Our Fortress And Our Tower
Great God, Our Fortress And Our Tower
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn contains allusions to the experiences of Martin Luther and would be appropriate for a celebration of his life or to acknowledge church reformers in general. It would also be appropriate on occasions of renewal of faith or for general use.
Poem: The man by the pool
Poem: The man by the pool
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: The man by the pool A man lay by the pool they call Bethesda, a place of healing when the waters stirred. He could not move or walk without assistance and yet his pleas for help were never heard. Then one day Jesus came to see the waters and found this man who’d been there …
Prayer: Weeping God
Prayer: Weeping God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Weeping God Weeping God, we come to join in your tears for those people who are refugees, or have been taken captive from their own country. We weep for those fleeing from violence and oppression; for those falsely accused of rebellion, when only seeking for justice; for …
Simply Jesus - A very odd sort of king
Simply Jesus - A very odd sort of king
by SPCK - N T Wright
A very odd sort of king ‘As Jesus was going along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. When he came to the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began to celebrate and praise God at the tops of their voices’ (Luke 19.36 –37). The crowd went wild…
Weeping woman, widowed, wailing
Weeping woman, widowed, wailing
by Marjorie Dobson
Weeping woman, widowed, wailing – all her life, men round her ailing. Now, with grief, her own heart failing. Who can help at times like this? Husband died, though not long married. Now her son is coffin-carried. From now on her life is arid. Who can help at times like this? Vers…
Reflection/Poem: Thankful for the Law
Reflection/Poem: Thankful for the Law
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/Poem: Thankful for the Law For those of us who live in settled lands, have homes and families and reasonable stability, make money for our basic needs although it never seems enough, embrace democracy whilst grumbling against the government and are thankful that we do …
POPPIES AND SNOWDROPS - Blessing/Prayer: God holds you through the weeping hours