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Meditation - Palm Sunday Year A
Meditation - Palm Sunday Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- Palm Sunday Year A Only time will tell Matthew 26: 14-17: 66 When he said he was going to Jerusalem we guessed he would need some support, after all, last time he was here the authorities wanted him dead, so we told our families they would have to fend for themselves…
Meditation - Trinity Sunday Year C
Meditation - Trinity Sunday Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – Trinity Sunday Time Year C Tomorrow John 16: 12-15 Why? Why go to such lengths to fill us in, Father God? As I look back over the history of your relationship with us I am staggered at the lengths you’ve done to keep us informed. You are God, accountable to no one, f…
Prayers: Accident and Emergency
Prayers: Accident and Emergency
by Christine Dutton
Prayers for those who work in hospitals and those who need to visit hospital. Having visited our local accident and emergency department with my son who had broken his toe, every corner I turned there was someone else working to make the hospital work. Grateful for the opportunit…
Meditation - 5th Sunday of Lent Year C
Meditation - 5th Sunday of Lent Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 5th Sunday of Lent Year C Passion Sunday Extravagant! John 12: 1-8 I can understand why Judas was upset; I didn’t need to use all the perfume, not all of it, It’s just that once I started I couldn’t stop, I just kept pouring, until the flask was empty. I confess I di…
Eggs and Ashes Book - Palm Sunday Evening
Eggs and Ashes Book - Palm Sunday Evening
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Prayer - Meditation - reflection Palm Sunday evening This time there will be no flight into Egypt. This donkey has too much to carry, too far. The shadows wait for me: around the table at Passover, among those in high places, in the condemned cell... By Josie Smith Taken from Egg…
Eggs and Ashes Book - God Has Made Laughter for Us
Eggs and Ashes Book - God Has Made Laughter for Us
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Prayer - Acclamation God has made laughter for us Christ is risen; He is risen indeed. Alleluia! Risen in quiet and mysterious darkness before the chorus of the dawn. Alleluia, Christ is risen; HE IS RISEN INDEED. Risen with glory and grace in reserve, and authority beyond measur…
The picture of you in our mind
The picture of you in our mind
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Prayer of Confession The pictures of you in our mind Loving God, forgive us, how we have got you wrong! Lazily we have settled for pictures of you in our minds which tell a terrible tale. We have painted you stern and unbending, the eternal judge... By John Harvey Taken from Eggs…
Eggs and Ashes Book - Under Your Wings
Eggs and Ashes Book - Under Your Wings
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Prayer of adoration and praise Under your wings How many times have I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me. (Luke 13:34) Under your wings You would hide us MOTHERING GOD Under your wings You woul…
Eggs and Ashes Book - When We Cry
Eggs and Ashes Book - When We Cry
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Prayer - Thanksgiving - Adoration When we cry When we cry you rock us When we are hungry you feed us YOU LOVE US MOTHERING GOD When we are lost you find us When we are happy... By Ruth Burgess Taken from Eggs and Ashes by Ruth Burgess and Chris Polhil. Click here to buy. Publish…
We stand for brave and selfless friends
We stand for brave and selfless friends
by Gareth Hill Publishing/Song Solutions CopyCare
Hymn – We stand for brave and selfless friends We stand for brave and selfless friends, who sacrificed today. In our remembering, Lord give faith, and teach us how to pray. We stand for all who die for us - and have no more to give: those we have never met or known... (c) 2009 G…
God cares for our insides too
God cares for our insides too
by Andy Lindley
A sculpture, beautiful on one side, but rough and unfinished on the rear. A reminder that in our celebrity adoring society humans care about the face we present one another, and not the beauty within. God, however, is concerned for our whole being, from the moment of our creati…
Reflection/Poem: Job
Reflection/Poem: Job
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/Poem: Job It’s bad enough when so-called friends pose difficult-to-answer questions, but when God begins to ask them of us, what possible answer can we give? So Job, having faced the onslaught of his not-so-comforting comforters, now faces God, who has a whole string o…
Meditation: Anonymous friends
Meditation: Anonymous friends
by Marjorie Dobson
Meditation: Anonymous friends There are so many anonymous people in the story of the life of Jesus. And so many others we only know by name. Even in the last few days of his life there were supporters who appear from nowhere and disappear just as quickly, but they play a vital pa…
Reflection: The Fear of the Lord