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clouds and glory - Proper 13 - Year A
clouds and glory - Proper 13 - Year A
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 13 Year A Sunday between 31 July and 6 August inclusive Lord, you are the bread of heaven, giving life to the world. You fill our emptiness with your goodness. You come to our weakness with your strength. Come, refresh, renew, restore us, Jesus Christ our Lord, who with th…
Go out to the world, spread the news, God is with us
Go out to the world, spread the news, God is with us
by Andrew Pratt
Go out to the world, spread the news, God is with us, to heal us and strengthen, to care and protect. No place is too far from his care and perspective, no person too wretched to gain his respect. Verse 2-3 follow Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 18/1/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, L…
Monologue: All in white shall stand around
Monologue: All in white shall stand around
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue: All in white shall stand around All in white shall stand around? That's how the old carol has it, doesn't it? Sounds like a decorators' convention at best, at worst boring! Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to be irreverent, but it just doesn't make sense? I mean are …
Times and Seasons - And this is war
Times and Seasons - And this is war
by Andrew Pratt
And this is war Imagination is not enough. The squalor appals. And this is war. It is now and then, always and hereafter. Sebastopol or Sarajevo, Somme or Sri Lanka, Vietnam Nam, Afghanistan. No romance here, heroism - sometimes; fear mostly. Driven by hunger for power, for posse…
Times and Seasons - And Christ was there
Times and Seasons - And Christ was there
by Andrew Pratt
And Christ was there And Christ was there, breathless, crumpled, tattered now; and mud-besplattered. Tears of weariness and anger, drained of strength by dancing danger. Continues... Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please …
Constellations sang in silence
Constellations sang in silence
by Andrew Pratt
Constellations sang in silence, all the cosmos offered praise, long before this globe's existence spun to weave our nights and days. Here humanity was founded, seeking meaning, plumbing doubt, raising questions never answered, turning wisdom inside out. Verses 2-3 follow Metre: 8…
Hymn: Simultaneous translation
Hymn: Simultaneous translation
by Andrew Pratt
Simultaneous translation, Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, all the world, it seemed, was listening, here the Spirit cheers, unites. Awe and wonder stunned the people, something new had come to birth, now the Holy Spirit, flaming, spread God's grace across the earth. Verse 3 follow…
Times and Seasons - Now the poppy petals flutter
Times and Seasons - Now the poppy petals flutter
by Andrew Pratt
Now the poppy petals flutter The updraft twisted yellow mist, ominous weave of gaseous death. And now the poppy petals flutter. Another updraft, drifting, lifting, each single petal turning end over end. Continues... Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 2014 Stainer & Bell Ltd, Londo…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Dying and Rising With Christ
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Dying and Rising With Christ
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF DYING AND RISING WITH CHRIST Colossians 2: 20- 3: 4 ‘I’ll just be two minutes,’ I said, leaving my friends on the street corner while I went to fetch the car. It was raining, and we’d just come out of the theatre. But I wasn’t two minutes. I took …
Mark for Everyone - Further Signs of the End
Mark for Everyone - Further Signs of the End
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 13.14–27 Further Signs of the End... ...When Albert Schweitzer, the great medical missionary, theologian and musician of the early twentieth century, was a young man, he studied the organ in Paris under Charles Marie Widor. One day in 1899 Widor confessed t…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Get Yourself Outta Here
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Get Yourself Outta Here
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Get Yourself Outta Here Genesis 11: 31- 12: 2a I just had a phone call from a graduate of our seminary who is about to leave the United States to join some people seeking to establish a Christian presence in a country where there is little such witness. She knows that when my wif…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - To Be a Blessing
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - To Be a Blessing
by SPCK - John Goldingay
To Be a Blessing Genesis 12: 2b When my grandmother died, she left her legacy to be divided among her grandchildren. Her legacy was about two hundred pounds (about three hundred dollars), and we got about twenty pounds each. I bought two prints with it: one sits behind me as I wr…
Revelation bible study guide - The Seven Plagues