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Symphony of song and colour
Symphony of song and colour
by Andrew Pratt
Third Sunday of Advent Year A Isaiah 35: 1 – 10Hymn: Symphony of song and colour Symphony of song and colour, mountain glories gild the globe, awesome time anticipated, God resplendent, brightly robed... Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.…
The shepherd mind had open eyes
The shepherd mind had open eyes
by Andrew Pratt
The shepherd mind had open eyes to calibrate the worth, to see beyond the poverty divine in human birth. These shepherd hands had held a lamb, had weighed* the new-born flesh. In every birth of lamb or child our hope is born afresh. Verses 3-4 follow *The older word, ‘hef…
Revelation for Everyone - Look! He is Coming
Revelation for Everyone - Look! He is Coming
by SPCK - N T Wright
Look! He Is Coming Revelation 1.1-8 The house lights went down, and the excited buzz of audience chatter quickly subsided as well. Soon it was quite dark in the theatre. Then music began, softly and mysteriously at first, but soon building up, swelling and rising. Just as it reac…
Nicodemus
Nicodemus
by Dave Hopwood
Early Days Bible Ref: Matthew 3 & 4; Mark 1; Luke 2-4; John 1-4 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking tex…
Hebrews for Everyone - The Practical Life of God's People
Hebrews for Everyone - The Practical Life of God's People
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Practical Life of God’s People Hebrews 13.1-8 ‘Sex, power, money, suffering. Tomorrow morning’s newspaper will be full of it; it’s what sells, it’s what some people think makes the world go round. Meanwhile, you can look through the newspaper from end to end for a mention of …
Zacc
Zacc
by Paul Glass
Zacchaeus shares his memories Okay - let’s get this over and done with right at the very beginning. I’m small - alright? Of limited stature, short. I get it. I’ve been that way since I was a child. ‘Your Zacchaeus, he’s a bit well…small isn’t he?’ That’s what mum’s friends would …
Open with God Book - Young People's Work
Open with God Book - Young People's Work
by Christine Odell
YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK Prayers for Various Occasions Reading Ecclesiastes 11.9-12.7 God of the old, middle-aged and young, you must laugh to see how generation after generation the young are envied their youth and advised to treasure it, while the ways of ‘young people today’ are fr…
Luke for Everyone - The Calling of Zacchaeus