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friends, FOES and families - Ash Wednesday: in order to know what is in your heart
friends, FOES and families - Ash Wednesday: in order to know what is in your heart
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
ASH WEDNESDAY: in order to know what is in your heart Mark 1.12, 13 Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart. (Deuteronomy 8.2)...
Quarrelsome people
Quarrelsome people
by Andrew Pratt
3rd Sunday in Lent Exodus 17: 1 – 7 Hymn: Quarrelsome people Quarrelsome people, out in the desert, thirsty for water, longing for home, ‘Why did you bring us’, they moan at Moses, ‘why make us hungry, why make us roam?’ They would have stoned him in their frustration... Andre…
Sometimes, O God, our weariness
Sometimes, O God, our weariness
by Andrew Pratt
Sometimes, O God, our weariness and pressure on our time can undermine our prayerfulness, our thoughts of the divine. We thirst and long to know your love, to hear your present voice, that in this void, this emptiness, we might, again rejoice. Verse 3 follows Tune: BELMONT Metre:…
Moses and the elders: Numbers 11
Moses and the elders: Numbers 11
by David Coleman
Moses, leader of the Hebrews, has a lot on his plate, and complains to God, with results. Illustrated storytelling from father-and-son David & Taliesin Coleman. Bible Reference: Numbers 11: 10-17 Ideal for use in School Assemblies, Sunday School, or All Age Worship.
Eco Lectionary notes year A Lent 1-3
Eco Lectionary notes year A Lent 1-3
by Keynsham Methodist Church Eco Group
Keynsham Methodist Church ECO-HINTS FROM THE LECTIONARY Lent 1 to Lent 3 Year A First Sunday in Lent Genesis 2: 15-17, 3: 1-7 Psalm 32 (H&P 845) Romans 5: 12-19 Matthew 4: 1-11 You could spend some time unpacking the Genesis mythology of ’the tree of knowledge’. This reading para…
Arthur's Call - Arthur's vocation
Arthur's Call - Arthur's vocation
by SPCK - Frances Young
7 Arthur’s vocation Silent Word A man with a message? Half-focused eyes look up to the sky Through long thin fingers, gently splayed And slowly waved, like flesh-tinged twigs Obliquely catching light from the sun – Not grasping, demanding or easily bored, Just intrigued by finger…
Moorland Stream
Moorland Stream
by Elizabeth Stanforth-Sharpe
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…
GOD's rich Pattern - GOD's rich pattern
GOD's rich Pattern - GOD's rich pattern
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
GOD’s rich pattern I write this book from the starting point of having experienced a spiritual breakdown. I’m a fully accredited Methodist Local Preacher with almost fourteen years experience of preaching. By some people’s standards that might be classed as minimal, but my callin…
friends, FOES and families - Betrayed by a word, betrayed with a kiss: Judas and Jesus
friends, FOES and families - Betrayed by a word, betrayed with a kiss: Judas and Jesus
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Betrayed by a word, betrayed with a kiss: Judas and Jesus Matthew 26, 27 God our Judge, none of us sees clearly the consequences of our actions: when we know we’ve made a wrong decision, give us strength to seek reconciliation...
Fed Up
Fed Up
by Marjorie Dobson
3rd Sunday in Lent & Fifteenth after Pentecost Proper 21 Ordinary 26 year A Exodus 17:1-7 Poem: Fed up! We are roaming this boring old desert. The exodus people, that’s us! We were happy enough when we started, but now folk are making a fuss. The bane of our life is the catering…
When our lives are tossed and windswept
When our lives are tossed and windswept
by Andrew Pratt
When our lives are tossed and windswept, twisted, spun and turned around, God is in the swirling darkness, leads our feet to solid ground. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: WRAYSBURY; WYCHBOLD Metre: 8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 2/3/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, w…
Such temptation, human challenge