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Hymn: Pray and praise or keep in healing
Hymn: Pray and praise or keep in healing
by Andrew Pratt
Pray and praise or keep in healing, all the people we hold dear; share in honest hope and feeling all our faith that God is here. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: SHIPSTON Metre: 8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 21/8/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. …
Hymn: There is no need for sacrifice
Hymn: There is no need for sacrifice
by Andrew Pratt
There is no need for sacrifice save love for friend and neighbour since Christ broke every barrier down. Let this define our labour. The sweetest offering of our love is all that is demanded: to love each person as ourselves is what the Christ commanded. Verses 3-4 follow Tune: B…
In this common congregation
In this common congregation
by Andrew Pratt
In this common congregation where we've often been before, here among familiar people, meeting God and feeling awe; we are ranked where God has chosen, set with those we might not choose, given tasks that bring us credit, and those where we stand to lose. God has called us to thi…
Meditation: God! We're brought up short!
Meditation: God! We're brought up short!
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation: God! We're brought up short! God! We're brought up short! So many heroes we might follow: footballers, X-Factor winners, Mahatma Ghandi or Nelson Mandela; a scientist or a politician. Who should we emulate? And is it worth it anyhow? Then we hear Elisha's story: This …
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B 1st Samuel 8: 4-11, 16-20 Psalm 138 2nd Corinthians 4: 13-5: 1 Mark 3 20-35 With a God such as the LORD, how could his people seek an earthly, visible, fallible king? Their God had led them out of slavery – a king would enslave them…
LWPT Meditations - Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 1st Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a Psalm 42, 43 Galatians 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39 When Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, he showed amazing courage and trust in God. Although outnumbered by 450 to one, he put his life in jeopa…
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 Psalm 50 Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Luke 12:32-40 “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 1:1). Faith is precious because it enables us to hope and trust in God even when – to …
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Romans 10: 5-15 “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10 v 13) Who is this Lord on whom we must call? The words, quoted by Paul in his letter to the Romans, are from the prophecy of Joel (2 v 32) and are…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Jeremiah 2:4-13 Psalm 81:1,10-16 Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5). Those words could well be the axiom for the whole Bible. God never has left or forsaken the people who are his …
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Lamentations 1:1-6 Psalm 137 2nd Timothy 1:1-14 Luke 17:5-10 These readings make no secret of the fact that to serve God is both challenging and testing. The apostle Paul wrote his second letter to Timothy from prison. It was not his…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Lent - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Lent - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Fourth Sunday in Lent Year A 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Psalm 23 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9:1-41 I once resigned from a church because of its practice of shutting out God’s good daylight, especially the sunshine, and holding the services by the inferior light of fluorescent strip…
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Trinity Sunday Year A Acts 2:1-2:4a Psalm 8 2nd Corinthians 13;11-13 Matthew 28:16-20 There are no Trinity proof-texts in the Bible – no single verse that incontrovertibly proves that God is three persons in one, and the word “trinity” does not appear. Some Bible cri…
Hymn: Hands open to the world
Hymn: Hands open to the world
by Andrew Pratt
Hands open to the world, our hearts aflame with praise, our senses tuned, at one with God, to learn and walk Christ's ways. The living waters stream with blessings from above, these splashing, foaming cataracts will douse us all with love. Verse 3 follows Tune: DAY OF PRAISE, FRA…
Hymn: Hush! The Psalmist sang of safety
Hymn: Hush! The Psalmist sang of safety
by Andrew Pratt
Hush! The Psalmist sang of safety peace beyond the fading light. Sleeping, held in arms of comfort, till the ending of the night. Verse 2 follows Tune: SAINT CATHERINE(Flood Jones) Metre: 8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 19/3/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, ww…
Hymn: Now in the face of Christ we see
Hymn: Now in the face of Christ we see
by Andrew Pratt
Now in the face of Christ we see God's living glory shine, no false reflection mirrored here, no metaphor or sign. This is the name above all names, who lived and moved and breathed, who felt our grief and knew our pain, now humanly conceived. Verses 3-4 follow Tune: GRAFENBERG, …
Hymn: God we need to know your mercy
Hymn: God we need to know your mercy
by Andrew Pratt
God we need to know your mercy, feel your grace around our lives, sense the presence of your spirit, loving kindness that survives. Faults that haunt us from our history are eroded by your grace; through your mercy life is lifted to a brighter finer place. Verse 3 follows Tune: S…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Dying to the Law