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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Fifth Sunday in Lent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Fifth Sunday in Lent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Fifth Sunday in Lent - Passion Sunday - Year A Order of Service contains: Opening Hymn: O sacred head sore/once wounded or Here terror stripped our Lord of hope Prayer: Gracious God; based on Romans 8:6-11 Psalm 130 Meditation: Desolation Hymn: Were you there when they crucified …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Fourth Sunday in Lent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Fourth Sunday in Lent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Fourth Sunday in Lent - Year A Service contents Opening Hymn: Hail to the Lord’s anointed or Hail to God in friend and neighbour Prayer: based on Psalm 23 Psalm 23 - Meditation/Poem: The sunlight was warm on my face in the morning Hymn: The Lord’s my shepherd (either Scottish Psa…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Easter Friday Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Easter Friday Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
EASTER FRIDAY Matthew 13.1–23 Reading Jesus’ parables in Easter week is particularly fruitful. Imagine Matthew’s friends reading his book, with their own Easter celebrations now a regular weekly feature of life, and hearing them in a whole new way. Jesus had spoken elsewhere, …
Lent for Everyone Year A - Easter Saturday Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Easter Saturday Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
EASTER SATURDAY Matthew 22.34 – 40 ‘So what’s your all-time favourite song, then?’I listened as John put his friend on the spot. They had been discussing music of various sorts and styles. This was a way of getting to the heart of the matter. ‘Let me play safe,’ the friend rep…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Week 3 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Week 3 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 3: SATURDAY Matthew 18; focused on 18.21–35 There are at least three levels at which we should read this sharp and startling story. And at least three levels at which we should apply it to our lives, not least our lives in church. Start, though, with Peter’s question. It see…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 3 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 3 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 3: MONDAY Matthew 14; focused on 14.22–33 Forty years ago I sat in my college room with a friend and we read this passage together. He had come to a living faith in Jesus just a week before. He was still wide- eyed with delight at the sense of Jesus’ personal presence within…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 4 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 4 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 4: MONDAY Matthew 19; focused on 19.16 –26 At the time I am writing this, a politician has just received loud and long applause for saying rude words about the very rich, especially people in the banks who pay themselves vast sums of money. Everybody likes to hate the rich.…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: Fifth Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: Fifth Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 5: THURSDAY Matthew 25; focused on 25.31– 46 One of the greatest soldiers of modern times recently published an autobiography. In it, he skates very lightly over one or two incidents in which, according to those who knew him at the time, he acted with almost incredible brave…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Second Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Second Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: SATURDAY Matthew 13; focused on 13.31–33, 44 – 46 An earthly story with a heavenly meaning.’ I used to think that that old Sunday- school definition of a parable was a harmless comment. I now think it’s more likely to be dangerous nonsense. Jesus didn’t tell parables to p…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: First Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: First Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 1: TUESDAY Matthew 6; focused on 6.5 –15 At the very heart of Jesus’ vision of the kingdom – of heaven’s kingdom coming on earth – we have a picture of one person, secretly in their own room, praying. Prayer is a mystery. I’ve often heard people saying, with a sneer, ‘It doe…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: WEDNESDAY Matthew 11; focused on 11.1–19 Jesus is here being put on the spot. Today, when interviewers try to force politicians to say things they didn’t really want to let out, they tend to prevaricate, to ignore the question, or even to tell downright lies. We have pri…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 5: MONDAY Matthew 24; focused on 24.15 –28 Browsing in an old library the other day, I came upon a book of cartoons from the late nineteenth century. They were political satires, commenting on the affairs of state of the time. Several different politicians were lampooned; al…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The way of an eagle in the sky
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The way of an eagle in the sky
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
‘The way of an eagle in the sky’ Following John’s story, style and structure The ‘way of an eagle in the sky’ may be hard to understand (Prov. 30.19) but many readers have felt similarly as they have sought to follow the twists and turns, heights and depths of this most subtle ev…
Journeying With Mark Year B - Lent