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Great God your love has held our lives
Great God your love has held our lives
by Andrew Pratt
Great God your love has held our lives through all the years down to this day. Your constant presence held us fast: remain with us we plead and pray. We've sen the ruins left by war, the tumbled buildings, street by street; some heard the voices that they loved and cried for thos…
Nunc Dimittis
Nunc Dimittis
by Andrew Pratt
Nunc Dimittis - Simeon's song at the birth of Jesus Taken from the Book Nothing Too Religious - Click Here Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please include any reproduction for local church and school use on your CCL Licen…
We three Kings - Meditation
We three Kings - Meditation
by Andrew Pratt
A mediation on the song 'We three kings' we three kings, the magi, wise men, ‘scholars’ Extract: We three kings - A meditation for Epiphany - by Andrew Pratt A small boy stood in a church hall. It was Christmas time. They were going to sing 'Good King Wenceslas'. 'You will be the…
Thank God for those who pray for us
Thank God for those who pray for us
by Andrew Pratt
Thank God for those who pray for us Thank God for those who pray for us, as undeserving as we are; thank God for God whose gracious love is reaching to us from afar. Thank God that when we idolise the things that we have bought or made, that grace is greater than our sin. God's l…
Born of a Virgin - Born of a Virgin - Mobi
Born of a Virgin - Born of a Virgin - Mobi
by SPCK - Andrew T. Lincoln
Many Christians find the virgin birth a difficult doctrine and are not sure how to handle it. This book examines why that is by addressing the whole range of issues that arise – literary, historical and hermeneutical – from a perspective that takes seriously creedal confession an…
Anonymous you come among the nations
Anonymous you come among the nations
by Andrew Pratt
Anonymous you come among the nations, outside the door of synagogue or church, and what you say will shake the world's foundations, will make the sinner sing, the righteous lurch. You come with grace, not seeking any favours, except a cup of water for your thirst, and those dismi…
The Gospel Is Beginning
The Gospel Is Beginning
by Andrew Pratt
A hymn about the beginning of Jesus ministry (Mark 1 – ‘this is the beginning of the gospel...) with allusion to the wedding at Cana in Galilee (John 2)), Jesus words in the Synagogue after reading from the scroll (Luke 4), and our continued commitment to living out the gospel. T…
What a noise, it shakes the heavens
What a noise, it shakes the heavens
by Andrew Pratt
What a noise, it shakes the heavens, rattles earth, disturbs each place, planets moving, constellations driven by God given grace. Songs of angels join the chorus, people add your words and power, with the music feel God closer, in this place and in this hour. We are objects of t…
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