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Poem: Rules, or freedom
Poem: Rules, or freedom
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Rules, or freedom Rules are tools to keep the unruly in line – or that’s the idea, at least. Rules are restrictive, inactive, inflexible and incapable of making allowances – that’s the idea of most of them. Rules are meant to make fools of those who disobey and in that way …
Meditation - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Touching the untouchable Luke 19: 1-10 He was a collaborator, that’s what everyone was saying: He was devout and highly influential … in the Roman tax collecting business at least. But he was a collaborator, that’s what he was, a tra…
Prayer: Challenging God
Prayer: Challenging God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Challenging God Challenging God, when we commit ourselves to following your way, and to the pattern that Jesus set us for daily living, we often feel out of step with the people in the world around us. It’s not because we want to cut ourselves off from them. It’s not beca…
Poem: Covenant
Poem: Covenant
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Covenant A covenant of love is made between two people who are committed to each other and want to share their lives with each other. Each enters into the covenant with the intention of giving all to a lifelong relationship. All is done in good faith and with the best of mo…
Monologue/drama: Those poor Greeks
Monologue/drama: Those poor Greeks
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Monologue/drama: Those poor Greeks Those poor Greeks must have got a bit of a shock. Granted, they were in town for the Passover festival – and strange things often happened at festivals. Granted, they were Greeks – and their thirst for knowledge was well-known and, mostly, respe…
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Prayers for Marriage and Commitment
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Prayers for Marriage and Commitment
by SPCK - Ian Black
Prayers for Marriage and Commitment Two prayers - "Relationships (commitment and civil partnerships)" and "Wedding/marriage" God of love, you share your life with us in your Son and bring us to delight in love. Bless (N and N) as they commit themselves to one another today... Tak…
Poem: Water upon water
Poem: Water upon water
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Water upon water Water upon water – that’s what happened in the days of Noah. Rain created floods, evaporated and created more rain to heighten the floods and bring devastation. And no-one listened to Noah, except his own family and they had no choice. But it was water that…
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - Fear
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - Fear
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Fear Genesis 31:55- 32:24a There is something to be said for fear. On one seminary study tour to Israel and Palestine, we were on our way back from Beersheba to Jerusalem. The Israeli authorities were advising groups to follow a route that stayed in Israeli territory rather than …
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Facing the Other Set of Facts
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Facing the Other Set of Facts
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Is Anything Stable? Psalm 89: 1-37 My wife once lived in a house on the side of a canyon in California that seemed capable of tumbling into the ocean if there was an earthquake, and after one worrying quake not far away she took to checking the weekly earthquake reports. Apparent…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - How It All Goes Wrong (Again)
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - How It All Goes Wrong (Again)
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How It All Goes Wrong (Again) NUMBERS 25:1- 26: 51 Numbers cause us some anxiety. I am often discouraged by the numbers of people in our church, afraid it is dying (the average age is quite high). A shrinking church will seem to be a failing church. So from time to time I glance …
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - How to Live in a Contractual Relationship with God
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - How to Live in a Contractual Relationship with God
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Live in a Contractual Relationship with God Genesis 28:16-29: 14a I was trying to explain to a group of Christians the difference between a covenant and a contract in order to suggest that God’s relationship with us is more like the former than the latter. I have a contrac…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - I'm Not the Hero; the Hero Is God
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - I'm Not the Hero; the Hero Is God
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I’m Not the Hero; the Hero is God JUDGES 8: 1-35 One of my fond memories of our sons’ childhood is of reading Bible stories to them at bedtime, stories that had been rewritten and illustrated for children; I have now passed on the set of books to the son who has children of his o…
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 17:22-31 Psalm 66:8-20 1st Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21 “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter 3:15). This was Peter’s admonition to the members of the e…
Meditation: Whose bone and flesh are we?
Meditation: Whose bone and flesh are we?
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation: Whose bone and flesh are we? Whose bone and flesh are we? Who reigns above our lives? For forty years or four a human monarch has limited tenure, meagre power. And then what? Then who or what is God? What is our greatest concern? Only you, only I, can answer that? A…
HYMN - I love my God with all my heart
HYMN - I love my God with all my heart
by Andrew Pratt
HYMN - I love my God with all my heart - Theme Covered: Easter, resurrection, Mary Magdalene, conversion, commitment TUNE: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING METER: 8.7.8.7 Also available in PowerPoint Format - Click Here Extract: I love my God with all my heart, I thank God that I'm li…
Hymn: No royal robes, but donkey riding
Hymn: No royal robes, but donkey riding
by Andrew Pratt
No royal robes, but donkey riding, the Christ, our King, had come to town, Jerusalem came out to meet him. Would gold or thorns compose a crown? The people spread their palms before him, they wondered what this day would bring: as Jesus, humble, riding quietly brought contrast to…
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - Do We Ever Learn?