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Hymn: The life of Christ, the love of God
Hymn: The life of Christ, the love of God
by Andrew Pratt
The life of Christ, the love of God, that we have seen, that we have known, gives comfort and encouragement to know we never are alone. The light of Christ is shining still, where we are met to break the bread, where homeless people find some warmth and where a hungry child is fe…
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…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 104:15
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 104:15
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 104:15 God knows what makes the human heart glad! All manner of things including good food and good wine. Yet these are but tokens of God’s providence as this psalm makes abundantly clear. It holds before us in poetry the blessings of heaven that God has rained down upon th…
We wait in hope for hope to come
We wait in hope for hope to come
by Gareth Hill Publishing/Song Solutions CopyCare
Hymn – We wait in hope for hope to come We wait in hope for hope to come: promised of old; the righteous one. Help us to watch, expect and pray and then to greet Messiah's day. We read the story of your plan: this world redeemed by heaven's Son... (c) Gareth Hill Publishing/Song …
friends, FOES and families - Now Laban had two daughters: Leah and Rachel
friends, FOES and families - Now Laban had two daughters: Leah and Rachel
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Now Laban had two daughters: Leah and Rachel Genesis 29-35 God of our youth, our maturity and our ageing, through all the stages of our lives, help us to live in harmony with one another and ourselves...
Reflection on 1 John 5: 1-6 Setting rules
Reflection on 1 John 5: 1-6 Setting rules
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection on 1 John 5: 1-6: Setting rules A parent who loves a child sets out sensible rules of conduct, so that the child can learn to grow and live to love and care for others. The child who loves the parent obeys the rules - most of the time – and learns through experience...…
Harmony? - poem
Harmony? - poem
by Marjorie Dobson
Harmony? - poem Trinity Sunday Year A 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13 Dear Lord, how wonderful it would be if we could always agree with one another. It would be even better if we could always live in peace with each other. As for greeting each other with a holy kiss … … 19 June 2011, Tr…
If all the world could live as one
If all the world could live as one
by Andrew Pratt
If all the world could live as one If all the world could live as one respecting each and every need, to be as neighbours sharing all, then God’s commands could be our creed. Much less a law to bind and tie, but more descriptive of the life we share in common care and love, where…
God shakes and rattles hopes and dreams
God shakes and rattles hopes and dreams
by Andrew Pratt
God shakes and rattles hopes and dreams Fifth Sunday in Lent Ezekiel 37: 1-14 God shakes and rattles hopes and dreams, confounds our plans, destroys our schemes; the bones of faith seem dry and bare, and is God found? And is God there? The desert scene is hot and still, our deser…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 11 Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 11 Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 11 Genesis 18.1–10a Colossians 1.15–28 Luke 10.38–42 From the beginning, human beings have been image-makers, instinctively, compulsively making sense of their world through imagining it. In lives governed by the harshest necessity just to survive, primitive people still…
Where people are friendly and walking as one
Where people are friendly and walking as one
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Where people are friendly and walking as one Proper 17 Year A Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b Where people are friendly and walking as one, the sound of the spirit is ringing; right here in a world so discordant with strife, in harmony, know God is singing. So tell all the world …
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