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Hymn: Total life! Too much to swallow?
Hymn: Total life! Too much to swallow?
by Andrew Pratt
Total life! Too much to swallow? We should all be one with Christ, share the living and the dying: is this challenge over-priced? But if we have grasped the message, life is more than human gain, then perhaps the risk is worth it - never be the same again? Verses 3-4 follow Tune:…
Looking to the gospel’s centre
Looking to the gospel’s centre
by Andrew Pratt
Looking to the gospel’s centre, put away all selfish pride, knowing love is God's whole answer for the ones we would deride. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: MERTON (Monk), ALL FOR JESUS Metre: 8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 11/8/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.s…
Not pushing for favours, nor craving acceptance
Not pushing for favours, nor craving acceptance
by Andrew Pratt
Not pushing for favours, nor craving acceptance, but waiting in line for our moment to come, and then love exalts us, affirms and promotes us, yes this is gospel the, the source and the sum. God raises the humble, the poor and afflicted, the ones that society longs to despise. Go…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 6 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 6 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Ordinary Time Proper 6 Genesis 18.1–15 Romans 5.1–8 Matthew 9.35—10.8 [9–23] Take the gospel reading (the longer version) and lay it, like a template, over the life of the average parish. What do you find? I know, I know. We don’t live in the fir…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Appointing a New Leader
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Appointing a New Leader
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Appointing a New Leader NUMBERS 27:12-23 The rector of a church I know has announced that she intends to retire in a few months, and the church is in the midst of the process for appointing a new rector. The present rector has been there for twenty years and has led the church…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - On the Unimportance of Spiritual Insight
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - On the Unimportance of Spiritual Insight
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On the Unimportance of Spiritual Insight JUDGES 5:31b- 6: 24 I have just been talking to a couple I have not seen for a year or two, exchanging news about our children and their marriages and their families. This other couple has several daughters. The last of these was almost th…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 23 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 23 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 23 Luke 17: 11-19 Gaze on the people of this small border village, going about their daily business. Maybe it’s market day, and rough stalls are set out selling fruit and spices. On the breeze comes the clang of bells; you hear the lepers before you see them approaching. W…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Yahweh's Good Spirit and Yahweh's Bad Spirit
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Yahweh's Good Spirit and Yahweh's Bad Spirit
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Yahweh’s Good Spirit and Yahweh’s Bad Spirit 1 Samuel 15: 34- 16: 23 I was recently reading a profile of Clint Eastwood; it was this profile that made me think about his movie Unforgiven in connection with 1 Samuel 13. In that and other later movies he is both actor and director,…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 20 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 20 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 20 Luke 16: 1-13 Gaze .on an old B-movie of cowboys and Indians. The Wells Fargo stagecoach gallops over the barren Wild West of America. It has been ambushed and the driver has been shot by the bandits; he is slumped over and has dropped the reins. He can steer the coach …
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Praise the the Creator
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Praise the the Creator
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN PRAYERS PRAISE TO THE CREATOR Revelation 4:6b-11 Scientists and anthropologists have often asked themselves, ‘What is it that humans can do that computers can’t do?’ Computers, after all, can play chess better than most of…
Revelation bible study guide - Sealing God's People
Revelation bible study guide - Sealing God's People
by SPCK - N T Wright
SEALING GOD’S PEOPLE Revelation 7 Sometimes you’re in the middle of a nightmare which seems so real, so powerful and so horrible that when you wake up you can hardly dare to believe that it was only a dream, that the accident didn’t happen, that so-and-so is still alive after all…
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Saturday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Saturday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Saturday Evening Prayer Blessed are you, O God, Maker of all: in Jesus Christ you offer everlasting newness of life. New life demands a new song, the song of the kingdom of heaven...
Rhythms of remembering - Saturday Midday Prayer