Lectionary 07/01/2018
- First Sunday after Epiphany - Year B
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Reassurance Mark 1:4-11 Reflection: I don’t care who you are Or where you come from We all need that special word. That word that says, ‘you’ve done well, I am pleased.’ A word that affirms our choices and actions. We all need that knowledge that we’re doing the right thing, That…
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Cedars of Lebanon, oaks of old England
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Cedars of Lebanon, oaks of old England, elegant poplars along country roads, trees mark a heritage, hope for the future, holding our history and bearing our loads. Hurricanes harass these trees by uprooting years of their growing, investment and toil, earthquakes unsettle the thi…
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Joy of the Lord is my strength
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Your Time Not Mine
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Calm Water
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When mountains that we thought secure
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by Gareth Hill Publishing/Song Solutions CopyCare
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Strange holiness: the glory of the Godhead, once named as love, the voice of living grace, the Word that spoke the cosmos into being: now Moses met that glory face to face. Unveiled he took that same un-borrowed glory, the covenant was given to his hand; two tablets of the law ga…
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by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
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by Marjorie Dobson
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by Marjorie Dobson
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by SPCK - N T Wright
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by SPCK - N T Wright
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by Michael Docker
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by Twelvebaskets Ltd
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by Rose humphrey
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Praise
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by Rose humphrey
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A time is coming
A time is coming
by Michael Docker
A time is coming A time is coming - almost here When things long hid will be made clear And worship won't be here or there But by God's Spirit we'll declare The living Word is true, A time is coming and our aim Will be to glory in Christ's shame; And we will worship in his name; …
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by Andrew Pratt
All the pageantry and glory, as we come to worship God, let imagination follow in the steps the Psalmist trod. Sing hosanna, sing hosanna, sing hosanna to our God. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: RHUDDLAN; FENTON COURT Metre: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 15/2/2012 Stain…
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by Andrew Pratt
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Painting 'Spirit moving over the waters'
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by Rev David East
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glimpses of glory - Proper 3 - Year C
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by SPCK - David Adam
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Responsive prayer based on Psalm 23
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by Marjorie Dobson
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by John Birch
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Yew tree
Yew tree
by Rachel Marsh
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by SPCK - Judith Dimond
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by Andrew Pratt
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by SPCK - Judith Dimond
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Sometimes we wonder at the work
Sometimes we wonder at the work
by Andrew Pratt
Sometimes we wonder at the work of God whose name we praise, for God is not bent to our wants, nor to our words or ways. Our thoughts and actions, every rite, contain no magic powers. We have to let the Spirit blow through other lives and ours. Verses 3-5 follow Tune: AULD LANG S…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Deuteronomy 18.15–20 Revelation 12.1–5a Mark 1.21–28 ‘If I hear the voice of the Lord my God any more, or ever again see this greatre, I will die’ (Deuteronomy 18.16). This, according to Deuteronomy, is the source of prophecy. The people of God hav…
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