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A cloak of darkness, like a shroud
A cloak of darkness, like a shroud
by Andrew Pratt
A cloak of darkness, like a shroud, had crawled across the rolling land, and through that darkness people trudged, a weary, wand'ring, pilgrim band. From day to day they marked their route, but when at last all hope had gone, in darkness, deeper than before, some lost the heart t…
Clouds and Glory Year A - The Third Sunday of Epiphany - Year A
Clouds and Glory Year A - The Third Sunday of Epiphany - Year A
by SPCK - David Adam
The Third Sunday of Epiphany Isaiah 9.1-4: Ps. 27.1 [2-3]4-9: 1 Corinthians 1. 10-18: Matthew 4.12-23 Lord God, you are almighty; in your great power renew, refresh, restore us, that we may live and work to your praise and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord who is alive and rei…
Hymn: He stood with scarred and open hands
Hymn: He stood with scarred and open hands
by Andrew Pratt
He stood with scarred and open hands, their bloodied, but now risen, Lord, incomprehension met his words, their fear had tightened like a cord. His word of peace rang in their ears, yet they could hardly understand. Bemused, unsettled, disbelief meant that the fear they felt was …
Hymn: He speaks of peace while all inside
Hymn: He speaks of peace while all inside
by Andrew Pratt
He speaks of peace while all inside disciples’ minds are churned about; their memories haunt their waking time, while day and night are fused by doubt. He speaks of peace while all the world will clamour at our open door, while shards of music sing and break with light in discord…
Hymn: In the days of righteous justice
Hymn: In the days of righteous justice
by Andrew Pratt
In the days of righteous justice peace will reign and love will dwell, God will cover all with comfort, heal our hurt and banish hell. Promise of the prophet's vision: God's shalom will cover earth, every continent and nation blessed as if with second birth. Verse 3 follows Tun…
Hymn: Robed in righteousness and beauty
Hymn: Robed in righteousness and beauty
by Andrew Pratt
Robed in righteousness and beauty, all affliction laid aside, lift the diadem of mercy, love will never be denied. Know that God has loved you dearly, know that God is loving still; Know God's love is everlasting. God has loved and ever will. Verse 3 follows Tune: ANIMAE HOMINUM;…
Hymn: The years have turned
Hymn: The years have turned
by Andrew Pratt
The years have turned, the ages passed, millennia run like a stream, and were those words of prophecy a concrete hope, or just a dream? And could a child embody peace, and justice have a human face, could holiness and righteousness inform our grasp of love and grace? Verses 3-4 f…
Monologue/Reflection: Peter reflects after Easter
Monologue/Reflection: Peter reflects after Easter
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue/Reflection: Peter reflects after Easter I suppose no one knew quite what to say. Days had passed. At the height of the festival Jesus had been tried and executed. For the crowds that was becoming a memory. Many folk were returning home. Clouds of dust swirled around the…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Snakes, and Progress and Another Attitude to War
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Snakes, and Progress and Another Attitude to War
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Snakes and Progress and Another Attitude to War NUMBERS 21: 4- 35 Yesterday in church I was aware, as I sometimes am, that many people make the sign of the cross at certain points in the service. I was never taught to do that, and I would feel self-conscious about trying to do it…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - The Journey Actually Begins
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - The Journey Actually Begins
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Journey Actually Begins NUMBERS 9: 15-10: 36 Although I make decisions easily (though this does not mean I make them wisely), when it was a question of deciding to take my disabled wife six thousand miles from Britain to California to a place we had visited only once and wher…
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - The Man Who Drives Like a Madman
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - The Man Who Drives Like a Madman
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Man Who Drives Like a Madman 2 Kings 9:1-37 My parents so loved movie star Bette Davis that they named my sister after her. They married in 1938, the year Bette Davis won an Oscar for her central role in the film Jezebel. As “Jezebel” she is Julie Marsden, a powerful, proud, …
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The Pain of Motherhood
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The Pain of Motherhood
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Pain of Motherhood Genesis 3: 14-16a I wrote an e-mail to someone this week and had an astonishing reply which, after the main part of the message, went on, “Oh, by the way. . . .” Actually it didn’t literally say that, but that is how it came across, because the news that fo…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - The Price the Family Begin to Pay
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - The Price the Family Begin to Pay
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Price the Family Begins to Pay 2 Samuel 12: 15b- 13: 14 At a concert last night a singer was telling us the background to a song about her grandfather. He was French-Canadian, spoke mostly in French, and died when she was a child. For both reasons she feels she never really g…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 2 of Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 2 of Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: MONDAY Matthew 10.1–15 Every so often, usually just after a change of government, there is a spate of political autobiographies, as former leaders do their best to cash in on the public’s hunger to find out ‘the inside story’. One of the most fascinating elements of such …
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Third Sunday of Advent Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Third Sunday of Advent Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Third Sunday of Advent Zephaniah 3.14–20 Philippians 4.4–7 Luke 3.7–18 The new lectionary has hardly begun, and I fear I am going to grumble about it as I did about its predecessor. How will people ever learn that the Bible and its message are politically relevant – that the …
Prince of Peace
Prince of Peace
by Ian Harris
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 Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - No, But...