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Psalm 119:174-176
Psalm 119:174-176
by BigBible
Created by Jo Brown. I long for your salvation, LORD, and your law gives me delight.Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments. ESV Translation. The Holy Bible, English…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 40:10, 12, 15
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 40:10, 12, 15
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 40:10, 12, 15 To be content to do only the will of God is how God originally fashioned the heart to be. With the gift of freedom came also the risk that the human heart might chase after other desires. These psalms testify to the vagaries of the heart, but they also capture…
Meditation - Pentecost Year C
Meditation - Pentecost Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – Pentecost Year C Help at last! John 14: 8-17 (25-27) ‘If you love me, obey my commandments,’ he said. Well that sounds easy enough, and to a great extent it’s perfectly reasonable. We really do love him, and just as he so rightly said, because we love him, we want to…
A Bit Like Jesus - Values from stories
A Bit Like Jesus - Values from stories
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Values from stories Why did Jesus not give us a set of moral laws? I suspect that for many of us it would have been so much easier had he done so. Imagine for a moment that the Gospels were full of moral laws, dos and don’ts, like parts of Leviticus in the…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119: 10-11
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119: 10-11
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 119. 10, 11 It is one thing to think a thought, it is quite another to bury it and hide it in the heart. Years ago people would learn verses of the Bible off by heart; sadly this is no longer in vogue educationally. Pity! We deprive ourselves. Memorizing a verse, meditating…
Open with God Book - May - Christian Aid Week (week 20)
Open with God Book - May - Christian Aid Week (week 20)
by Christine Odell
May – Christian Aid Week (week 20) Calendar of Prayers Reading Psalm 146.5-9 Our God, we praise and thank you for the abundant love you pour out upon us: for giving us this world to provide for our needs; for giving us free will so that we can choose to express our humanity by lo…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Lent - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Lent - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 3rd Sun of Lent Year B Exodus 20: 1-17 Psalm 19 1st Corinthians 1: 18-25 John 2: 13-22 In Exodus 20, God gave the Israelites the Ten Commandments that were to form the basis of their Law. As present-day humans we don’t like laws much. One has only to observe how indi…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A Exodus 20: 1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Psalm 19 Matthew 21: 33-46 Today’s lectionary passages begin with the Ten Commandments which enshrined God’s Law for the Israelites (Exodus 20) When God gave his chosen people this Law, it was for their g…
clouds and glory - Proper 18 - Year A
clouds and glory - Proper 18 - Year A
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 18 Year A Sunday between 4 and 10 September inclusive Lord, awaken us to your glory. Open our eyes to your presence. Open our ears to your call. Open our hearts to your love, that we may proclaim that you are among us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen…
Exodus and Leviticus - Be Holy as I am Holy
Exodus and Leviticus - Be Holy as I am Holy
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Be Holy as I am Holy LEVITICUS : 19: 1- 18 Today’s newspaper reports on the release from a detention center in Iraq of a twenty-seven-year-old man, after eighteen months there. He was given a letter to say that his case had been concluded and the occupation authorities had decide…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - If Only...
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - If Only...
by SPCK - John Goldingay
If Only… Deuteronomy 5: 16-33 Yesterday we had the service to which I referred in connection with Deuteronomy 1, when the Episcopal Church in Los Angeles expressed its contrition for the racism that has characterized it in encouraging segregation and condoning discrimination with…
Rhythms of remembering - Easter - Wednesday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Easter - Wednesday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
EASTER - Wednesday Evening Prayer Alleluia, blessed is Jesus, the true Cornerstone, alleluia. No longer are we strangers or foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,...
Rhythms of remembering - Lent - Wednesday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Lent - Wednesday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
LENT - Wednesday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you made us to care for the earth. The earth is God’s and all that is in it, the world and all who dwell therein. For it is God who founded it upon the sea and made it firm upon the rivers of the deep...
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - PUTTING the CART before the HORSE
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - PUTTING the CART before the HORSE
by BRF - Dick France
PUTTING the CART before the HORSE MARK 7: 9-13 ‘Making void the word of God’ The unexpected accusation which Jesus has launched against the scribes in verse 8 is repeated in different words twice more, in verses 9 and 13…
Fresh Thoughts for Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 88 01/11/15