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Broken For You
Broken For You
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
Crown of Thorns left on top of Cross. Art illustration for PowerPoint slide or Poster. TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) Insert as…
Barefoot Prayers - Thanks
Barefoot Prayers - Thanks
by SPCK - Stephen Cherry
Thanks A small company of people have helped and encouraged with this project – some before there was a project. Karenza Passmore, for instance, gave me a little notebook for creativity which kicked this all off. Others responded with warm and difference-making encouragement when…
Meditation - 3rd Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 3rd Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 3rd Sunday in Lent Year A A combined planter and harvester John 4: 5-42 Is that a Samaritan woman Jesus appears to be talking to? A pretty unsavoury character I would think if she’s come for water at this time of day. She’s seen us coming and she’s off like shot, so …
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 2nd Sunday in Lent Year A Salvation by ritual? John 3: 1-17 It was all beyond me! I thought I understood; I’ve studied the scriptures all my life, I’ve taught others how to interpret them, I’ve shown them what God requires and how they should live; but when I saw Jes…
A Bit Like Jesus - The faith of a Gentile
A Bit Like Jesus - The faith of a Gentile
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 5 Faith The faith of a Gentile When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, appealing to him and saying, ‘Lord, my servant is lying at home paralysed, in terrible distress.’ And he said to him, ‘I will come and cure him.’ The centurion answered, ‘Lord, I am not worthy…
A Bit Like Jesus - Faithfulness
A Bit Like Jesus - Faithfulness
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 5 Faith Faithfulness A doctor friend was asked to produce a set of bullet points for a patient fact sheet about healthy living. He included the obvious candidates: Don’t smoke; Drink and eat moderately; Take exercise; and so forth. Then he playfully added two final bullet po…
A Bit Like Jesus - Family Stories
A Bit Like Jesus - Family Stories
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Family Stories Stories are particularly important for families. We tell and retell stories about where and when we were born, about holidays shared, about birthday and Christmas parties enjoyed long ago, about grandparents and great-grandparents no longer …
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing Stories rather than miracle stories
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing Stories rather than miracle stories
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Healing stories rather than miracle stories The problem is that many will see the Gospel stories as miracle stories. So are they really healing stories? Here, for example, is the first such story in Mark 1.21–28: They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbat…
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- 5th Sunday in Lent Year A Why am I wrapped like a corpse? John 11: 1-45 ‘If only Jesus had been in Judea’, they lamented ‘our brother Lazarus would still be alive now not lying there cold in his tomb surrounded by all this crying and wailing.’ Mary and Martha had sen…
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- 4th Sunday in Lent Year A Destiny’s Child Luke 2: 33-35 We can’t imagine life without our little bundle of joy! Mary has taken to motherhood like a fish takes to water; Oh don’t get me wrong, we still have our moments, it’s not like everything is perfect, it was boun…
A Bit Like Jesus - Touching the stigmatized
A Bit Like Jesus - Touching the stigmatized
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 4 Care Touching the stigmatized Many have found an important precedent here for how we should care properly for those with AIDS. As seen in section 10, some early responses to AIDS were inept and even hypocritical. Today many religious agencies working among those living wit…
Meditation - 6th Sunday of Lent Year C
Meditation - 6th Sunday of Lent Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 6th Sunday in Lent – Palm Sunday Year C The morning after the night before Luke 22: 14-23: 56 They came for him like thieves in the night. O yes, he knew it was going to happen. He made that abundantly clear at supper that night. Of course we didn’t really understand…
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent Year C
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 4th Sunday in Lent Year C Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 I remember the birth of each of my sons; how infinitely precious they were, how tiny, how much in need of my protection. I vowed then that I would be the best father in the world. My wife died giving birth to the younger…
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Lent Year A Join the rest of the world! Matthew 4:1-11 Sometimes, just for the fun of it, I sit on a high point and look down on everyone, like the top of a mountain, or my favourite place, the pinnacle of the temple. I spend hours trying to spot one pe…
A Bit Like Jesus - Morris Cerullo's healing mission to London
A Bit Like Jesus - Morris Cerullo's healing mission to London
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Morris Crullo’s healing mission to London In the early 1990s a great deal of publicity was given to the work of the American evangelist Morris Cerullo. Many in England at the time were unfamiliar with the so-called Prosperity Gospel, according to which if you are …
A Bit Like Jesus - Humility and justice