The Vine
The Vine
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
If you would like to receive THE VINE AT HOME - a short act of worship and daily devotions simply sign up to the Worship Cloud weekly newsletter. If you would like to make a donation towards the production of THE VINE AT HOME - Please CLICK HERE. THE VINE Seeking an authentic, ch…
Responsive prayer based on Psalm 23
Responsive prayer based on Psalm 23
by Marjorie Dobson
Responsive prayer based on Psalm 23 Psalm 23 The Lord is our shepherd: we shall not be in want. When life is rushed and hectic and there’s never enough time for all we have to do: Lord speak to us of green fields and still waters and calm our souls. When we are tempted into the e…
Lenten Cross Liturgy
Lenten Cross Liturgy
by Andrew John Webb
LENTEN CROSS LITURGY FROM SUFFERING TO GLORY Using a bare wooden cross to which different items are added each Sunday during lent. On Easter Sunday the items are removed one by one and then the cross is covered with flowers (need to have some mesh round the cross for these to go …
Harvest Festival Communion Liturgy
Harvest Festival Communion Liturgy
by Andrew T Murphy
A Holy Communion liturgy for occasions when communion takes place during the Harvest Festival. The words should invoke harvest imagery from the scriptures and well-known hymns. The liturgy covers the Holy Communion part of the service from the Peace to the Post-Communion Pray…
Thomas
Thomas
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Dramatic Monologue: Thomas Second Sunday of Easter - John 20: 19 – 31 It must have felt like walking into a nightmare. All those sensible, down-to-earth friends of yours, ranting and raving; telling you the most bizarre stories; jumping up and down with excitement, flinging …
The Vine Sample
The Vine Sample
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The Vine Fully scripted local arrangement services for every Sunday - available here. Is your church and circuit facing a rising number of local arrangements, a shortage of preachers or a sense that your Sunday worship is missing something? The Vine resources are weekly local arr…
Pentecost Intercessions
Pentecost Intercessions
by Christine Odell
Based on Acts 2:1-21 Loving God, we ask for the gift of your Holy Spirit To help us to pray as we ought. Holy Spirit: help us. We ask for the energy and vision of your Spirit For those tiring in the battle against injustice and oppression; And for those exhausted by the struggle …
The Vine Pilot Issue Easter 7B
The Vine Pilot Issue Easter 7B
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NEW Fully Scripted Local Arrangement Services After a very successful pilot scheme in collaboration with The Discipleship and Ministries Learning Network of The Methodist Church, we are launching The Vine, weekly fully scripted acts of worship. Each service includes an order of s…
The Vine at Home - The Vine at Home - £10 Donation
The Vine at Home - The Vine at Home - £10 Donation
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
£10 Donation Helping us to provide this free weekly worship resource. In March 2020, when it became obvious that our worship centres were going to close, we took the decision to create The Vine at Home. This was a shortened version of The Vine Local Arrangement Services, aimed at…
Fed Up
Fed Up
by Marjorie Dobson
3rd Sunday in Lent & Fifteenth after Pentecost Proper 21 Ordinary 26 year A Exodus 17:1-7 Poem: Fed up! We are roaming this boring old desert. The exodus people, that’s us! We were happy enough when we started, but now folk are making a fuss. The bane of our life is the catering…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 7.55–60 1 Peter 2.2–10 John 14.1–14 What are we Christians supposed to feel about the world we live in? All three of today’s readings suggest that, at the very least, the world is not our home. Stephen dies as though death is irrelevant, w…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Pentecost Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Pentecost Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Day of Pentecost - Year A Numbers 11.24–30 Acts 2.1–21 John 20.19–23 It is typical of God’s calling to us that on the day of Pentecost, instead of being allowed to dwell on what it feels like and means to have tongues of fire resting on you, the disciples have to go straight out …
Clouds and Glory Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
Clouds and Glory Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
by SPCK - David Adam
The Third Sunday of Easter Acts 2. 14a, 36-41: Psalm. 116. 1-4, 12-19 (or 1-8) : 1 Peter 1. 17-23 : Luke 24. 13-35 Abide with us Lord, throughout this day. Abide with us in our journeying, and in our homes. Abide with us in our seeking and in our longings. Abide with us now and t…
Weeds?
Weeds?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Weeds? Proper 11 year A Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 In my father’s garden it was a case of ‘NO WEEDS ALLOWED’. Dandelions were dispatched at speed. Thistles were torn out. Buttercups banished, and any unidentified shoots were sentenced to the compost heap... 17 July 2011, Fifth…
The Same Spirit - poem/meditation
The Same Spirit - poem/meditation
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/meditation -The same spirit Sixth Sunday of Easter John 14: 15-21 A counsellor. A comforter. An advocate. That’s what we need – all three of them. The counsellor will listen and ask questions and help us to understand ourselves, then give us wise advice, but only if we ask f…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:34, 36