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Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year B

Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year B

by SPCK - N T Wright

Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 MONDAY... Imagine you are standing on a high hill, overlooking a long valley. In the valley are villages, a river, fields and woods, with a network of small roads winding their way between them all. Now imagine that you can see a car, driving …

3rd Sunday in Lent John 4: 5-42, Exodus 17: 1-7 Prayer: Conversation Listening God, you are concerned with our conversations. You hear our sharp debates. You are aware of our differences of opinion. You encourage our attempts at reconciliation. You rejoice when we begin to unders…

2nd Sunday in Lent Genesis 12: 1-4a Romans 4: 1-5, 13-17 Meditation: Faith matters Abraham could have stayed at home, safe and sheltered, lawful and loved. Why not? Many others were doing the same. Keeping their heads down and their noses clean. Why didn’t he do that? Surely God …

Abram set out on a journey

by Andrew Pratt

2nd Sunday in Lent Hymn: Abram set out on a journey Abram set out on a journey, joined this new, uncertain, game. Challenges bring new excitement, no two days will be the same. Life was settled, now it’s shaken, preconceptions turned around, every day a new beginning, every place…

I wondered as I wandered

by Andrew Pratt

Poem: Adam’s reflection - I wondered as I wandered First Sunday in Lent Year A Genesis 2: 15 – 17; 3; 1 – 7 I wondered as I wandered at the meaning of it all, I had seen the apple's greening, I had watched the leaflets fall. I had started at first sunrise, at the blinding of my e…

LWPT Meditations - Epiphany - Year A

by Susan Thorne

Meditation – Epiphany Yr A Isaiah 60:1-6 Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14 Ephesians 3:1-12 Matthew 2:1-2 Epiphany provides an afterglow that prolongs the light and joy of our Christmas celebrations, before we settle back into the weeks that will lead us to Lent. We love the story of the thre…

God looks beyond our sad facade

by Andrew Pratt

Hymn - God looks beyond our sad facade The call of David Fourth Sunday in Lent 1 Samuel 16: 1 – 13 God looks beyond our sad facade, God sees within each heart; our human judgments pale before the brightness of God's art. The ones that we would wish to choose, to elevate and prais…

Now take away the stone, he is not dead

by Andrew Pratt

Hymn: 'Now take away the stone, he is not dead', Fifth Sunday in Lent John 11: 1 - 45 'Now take away the stone, he is not dead', the people looked amazed, yet some with dread. For Lazarus was buried four long days, the stench said this was more than just a phase. Yes dead is dead…

3rd Sunday in Lent Exodus 17: 1 – 7 Hymn: Quarrelsome people Quarrelsome people, out in the desert, thirsty for water, longing for home, ‘Why did you bring us’, they moan at Moses, ‘why make us hungry, why make us roam?’ They would have stoned him in their frustration... Andre…

The riddle of salvation

by Andrew Pratt

2nd Sunday in Lent John 3: 1 – 17 Hymn: The riddle of salvation The riddle of salvation, not of a cross or tomb, confronted Nicodemus within a quiet room. Christ took him back to childhood, and challenged all he knew, his intellect was tested by hearing what to do. 'To reach the …

Worship Together - March - A journey for everyone

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

March- A journey for everyone This outline uses as its key texts the story of Jesus’ temptations and the classic Ash Wednesday readings as a starting point. The journey is that made by Jesus out into the wilderness but also the journey we make through the weeks of Lent. During th…