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Can we care enough
Can we care enough
by Marjorie Dobson
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Year A Isaiah 58: 1-9a Prayer: Can we care enough Can we care enough? How can we really know the depths of someone else’s need? How do we identify with someone who has nothing at all, while we demand basic comforts from the state, as a matter of course…
God of our Future
God of our Future
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God of our future God of our future, forgive us that we are so often affected by the attitude of dissatisfaction and gloominess that we feel around us today. With so many conflicts and natural disasters, so much power-seeking and selfishness, so many cruel regimes and so …
Prayer: God of compassion
Prayer: God of compassion
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God of compassion Third Sunday of Easter Psalm 116: 1- 4; 12 – 19. God of compassion, we thank you that even in the most difficult times of our lives, you hear us as we cry out to you. When life is dark and there seems to be no hope of light, you hold us in your compassio…
God hung and died upon the cross
God hung and died upon the cross
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: God hung and died upon the cross Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A 1 Peter 2: 19 – 25 God hung and died upon the cross, and there he suffered wild abuse, the ones who held religious power had offered an oblique excuse: denying love their greatest crime. We see this echoed in o…
Here In Faith We Wait And Pray (A Hymn For The Ministry Of Healing)
Here In Faith We Wait And Pray (A Hymn For The Ministry Of Healing)
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn for the ministry of healing was written for the 40th anniversary of the Titoki Christian Healing Centre, Whakatane, New Zealand, March 2016. The words "We wait in faith and pray" come from The 1989 New Zealand Anglican Prayer Book.
Open with God Book - November - Children in Need
Open with God Book - November - Children in Need
by Christine Odell
November – “Children in Need” Calendar of Prayers Reading Nehemiah 5.1-6 God, our father and our mother, we thank you for the gift of children; bringing love, with all its joys and demands, to their families, hope and challenge to their communities, and new life and insights to t…
No peace for the Master, the people would follow
No peace for the Master, the people would follow
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: No peace for the Master, the people would follow Proper 13 year A Matthew 14: 13 – 21 No peace for the Master, the people would follow, for he had compassion for those who were lost, then when he had healed them, and answered their questions, he saw they were hungry, yet fo…
Tangled in prejudice, lost in presumption
Tangled in prejudice, lost in presumption
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Tangled in prejudice, lost in presumption Fourth Sunday in Lent John 9. 1-41 Tangled in prejudice, lost in presumption, locked in our judgments, so sure of our ground; others are sinful, but we are the righteous, this is the truth we are sure we have found. This is our blin…
The Act of Prayer Year C - Proper 5 - Year C