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Light in the darnkess
Light in the darnkess
by Heather Stanley
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) Insert as Picture in the normal way. If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in the t…
Globe
Globe
by Heather Stanley
A globe with the Middle East facing camera. A light dot and the globe sits in darkness TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) Insert as…
Hymn: Why does it seem..
Hymn: Why does it seem..
by Michael Docker
Why does it seem..? Why does it seem that because there is suffering Someone or something must be to blame? Why does it feel that the world needs an offering - Someone or something to bear all our shame? Deep in our hearts, where there’s no rhyme or reason Something stirs to give…
Meditation/prayer: Meditation isn’t always easy
Meditation/prayer: Meditation isn’t always easy
by Marjorie Dobson
Meditation/prayer: Meditation isn’t always easy Meditation isn’t always easy. Being lost in thought often is. But it does depend on the focus of our thoughts. Bitterness, hatred, loss and grief bring pain and anguish and a mind that sets into a circle of hurt and anger and negati…
Prayer: Responsive prayer - God who brought light
Prayer: Responsive prayer - God who brought light
by Marjorie Dobson
God, who brought light from darkness, we bring before you those who need new light in their lives. We remember those who live in deep sorrow, through bereavement, depression, illness, family breakdown, or abuse. Into their darkness, bring your light. We remember those who have lo…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fourth Sunday of Lent John 3.14-21 Gaze on a dark cellar. You have been trapped inside for ages. It is pitch black in there and there is no switch or bulb hanging overhead to light up your prison. You stumble about feeling the walls, desperate to find a door, or some way out …
All the glory of the cosmos
All the glory of the cosmos
by Andrew Pratt
All the glory of the cosmos bleeds its brilliance through the darkness, light emerges, shadows shorten, sign and hope of people's pardon. Nations gather in communion, cov’nant grace and hope of union, lift your eyes for God is with us, bringing hope through Christ's forgiveness. …
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…
A cloak of darkness, like a shroud
A cloak of darkness, like a shroud
by Andrew Pratt
A cloak of darkness, like a shroud, had crawled across the rolling land, and through that darkness people trudged, a weary, wand'ring, pilgrim band. From day to day they marked their route, but when at last all hope had gone, in darkness, deeper than before, some lost the heart t…
Times and Seasons - Why go to the wilderness, seek out the God-head
Times and Seasons - Why go to the wilderness, seek out the God-head
by Andrew Pratt
Why go to the wilderness, seek out the God-head? What is this perception, this mystical force? The people were drawn to the bank of the Jordan, the river winds onward, still follows its course. No change of direction, the river flows onward, yet people were challenged to alter th…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - BETRAYED in a GARDEN
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - BETRAYED in a GARDEN
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
BETRAYED in a GARDEN Jesus has finally finished ‘speaking these words’ of the Farewell Discourses and his Prayer, and so now he takes his disciples out across the Kidron valley to a garden (18:1). We notice immediately that John’s account of the passion is both similar to the oth…
Light at the end of the tunnel