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Rhythms of remembering - Advent - Friday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Advent - Friday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ADVENT - Friday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God: your steadfast love never ceases, your mercies never come to an end. Water will gush in the desert and streams in the wastelands, the parched land will become a marsh and the thirsty land springs of water...
Journeying With Mark Year B - Advent
Journeying With Mark Year B - Advent
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
1 Advent Exploring the text The season of Advent is about waiting, both for the Jesus who came to earth as a baby and for the victorious, risen and ascended Christ who will return to earth as King. One of the challenges of Advent is to keep our vision fixed not only on the more t…
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - Setting the Scene
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - Setting the Scene
by BRF - Dick France
SETTING the SCENE ‘The wilderness’, mentioned four times in verses 1–13 and never again in Mark’s Gospel, is a pointer to the different focus in these introductory paragraphs. They are set not among human society in Galilee or Judea, but in the uninhabited land around the Jordan.…
Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend
Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend
by Andrew Pratt
Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend based on Psalm 147 We cannot comprehend the height and depth, the brightness and beauty of the stars above our heads, so in awe we praise you O God. You rebuild broken cities and gather together the outcasts, bringing peace we dare not imag…
Scattered sheep, you hear God's calling
Scattered sheep, you hear God's calling
by Andrew Pratt
Scattered sheep, you hear God’s calling, people driven far from home; sometimes those you trust deceive you. God is watching, do not roam. Verses 2-3 follow Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 22/8/2010 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please include any re…
Safe in God who always held us
Safe in God who always held us
by Andrew Pratt
Safe in God who always held us from the moment of our birth, still protecting, never resting, till the ending of the earth. God our refuge, loving parent, guiding as our lives proceed; God of providence and comfort seeks to meet our every need. Verse 3 follows Tune: LAUS DEO (Red…
See the veins that run through marble
See the veins that run through marble
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: See the veins that run through marble Proper 16 year A Isaiah 51: 1 – 6 See the veins that run through marble, making every slab unique, like them, strands run through our history, through our thoughts and words we speak. We are hewn from living history, formed by comfort, …
Sometimes our grasp of life is frail
Sometimes our grasp of life is frail
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Sometimes our grasp of life is frail Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 119: 105-112 Sometimes our grasp of life is frail, yet through it all love will prevail. We feel that every step is cursed, believing things can not get worse. In spite of all, we keep our faith, hel…
Sometimes all justice seems a joke
Sometimes all justice seems a joke
by Andrew Pratt
1 Sometimes all justice seems a joke, we see love sink and drown, as anarchy and violence rule, the poor are trodden down. 2 And all is lost, audacious grace, seems vain, a hopeless thought; until we bring to mind again what Jesus lived and taught: 3 T…
Straining human understanding
Straining human understanding
by Andrew Pratt
Straining human understanding, grace is greater than our flaws, love will reach beyond our folly, breach our hatred, counter wars. Some ignore the call to caring, selfish impulse drives them on, yet our human love in action could avert a greater wrong. Verses 3 follow Tune: MERTO…
The Spirit came that breathed across the waters
The Spirit came that breathed across the waters
by Andrew Pratt
The Spirit came that breathed across the waters, existent since the very dawn of time, the essence of the Word at once incarnate, providing sound to what was human mime; Like lightning unleashed within the cosmos, the unexpected flame of life set free, that alloys different langu…
The room is ready, all prepared
The room is ready, all prepared
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: 'The room is ready, all prepared Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A John 14: 1 - 14 'The room is ready, all prepared, you have a place to go' said Jesus to his gathered friends! 'I thought that you would know'. 'We've walked together, shared and talked, we've prayed, you've seen…
Things we thought were firm foundations