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Prayers for All Occasions Book - Food and Drink Prayers
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Food and Drink Prayers
by SPCK - Ian Black
Three devotional prayers covering Chocolate, Wine and Beer. Lord God, you delight us with taste and smell and set us on the earth with a rich bounty of plants and fruits. We give you thanks for chocolate... Lord, you gave wine as a symbol of rejoicing in your Kingdom, of overflow…
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Devotions - Silence and Stillness
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Devotions - Silence and Stillness
by SPCK - Ian Black
Two Devotional Prayers entitled Still my restless heart, O God and Silence into God. Still my restless heart, O God, that I may breathe your love. Still my restless mind, O God, that I may hear you speak... In stilled silence I wait on God. The silence of eternity to enfold me. …
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Devotional Prayers (2)
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Devotional Prayers (2)
by SPCK - Ian Black
A collection of devotional prayers including Spiritual Struggle, Expectations, This Day, Letting Go, Slowness to Believe, Doubt and Faith. God of hope, you hold us all our days. Give us courage to let go of all that would hold us back and weigh us down on our journey... Give me g…
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Devotional Prayers (1)
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Devotional Prayers (1)
by SPCK - Ian Black
A collection of devotional prayers including Stir Us O God, Pilgrims of Earth, Like Children, and Five Senses. Stir us, O God, with your vibrant desire. Move us, O God, to work for your justice. Inspire us, O God, to active service... Give us the eyes of a child, O God, to deligh…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Saturday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Saturday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER SATURDAY... One of the most popular misconceptions today is the idea that everybody up to about two centuries ago was credulous, gullible, easily taken in by strange stories and odd beliefs. We, however, with our modern ‘scientific’ knowledge,…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Friday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Friday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER FRIDAY... The old ones are the best. ‘I was on a plane,’ said the comedian Bob Hope, ‘and suddenly it started to go into a spin and head straight for earth. Everybody was panicking and someone said, “Do something religious!” ‘So,’ he said, ‘I …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Thursday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Thursday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER THURSDAY... ...As the Nazi party was increasing its power in pre-war Germany, the great theologian Karl Barth, still at that stage teaching in Bonn, came into contact one day with one of the party officials. The policies that had made the Nazi…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Wednesday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Wednesday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER WEDNESDAY... ...Easter, in the northern hemisphere at least, is a time when all sorts of plants are starting to come up. Sometimes there are surprises. I well remember raising my eyebrows a few years ago when bulbs we had totally forgotten abo…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Tuesday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Tuesday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER TUESDAY... ...I have often used, as an illustration, the way in which signposts work. A signpost tells you not where you are at the moment, but where you are going to. You don’t put a sign (I have often said) saying ‘This Way to London’ in Pic…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Monday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Monday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER MONDAY... ...When I became Dean of Lichfield in 1994, one of the first things I saw as I was shown around the magnificent cathedral was the place where the building had been, as it were, stitched back together again after the serious damage it…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Day Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Day Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER DAY... ...‘They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.’ Well, wouldn’t you be? Terrified, more likely. Graveyards are a bad enough place at the best of times, especially in a culture where grave-robbery was common, and stories of gh…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday Holy Week Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday Holy Week Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK HOLY SATURDAY... ...It is hard to tell which was more horrible. We watched on the television, some while ago now, as the earthquake off the coast of Japan produced a terrible tsunami. The waves came crashing in, the enormous power of millio…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Good Friday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Good Friday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK GOOD FRIDAY... ...We stopped the car outside the most unlikely looking house. One wall looked as if it was going to collapse at any moment. The door was hanging off on one hinge. An upstairs window was broken. There was a rustle in the bush…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Maunday Thursday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Maunday Thursday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK MAUNDAY THURSDAY... ...When I taught in Oxford University, I used repeatedly to ask the Theology Faculty for funds to take students to the Holy Land. Having been there myself, I knew that you could learn things in a few days on site that wo…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday Holy Week Year B