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Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving Our Relationships
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving Our Relationships
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
We are often not aware how full of expectations our relationships are—that we should be considered, understood, and done right by. Unstated rules, for the conduct of ourselves or another, lie like land mines on the path of our connections. The conditioned sense of one’s rights, o…
I am bringing you good news
I am bringing you good news
by David Perry
Image accompanying reflection Imagining the Lectionary: I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people (Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Year C) Image with out text - Click Here Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This imag…
Poem: Promises, promises, promises!
Poem: Promises, promises, promises!
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Promises, promises, promises! Promises, promises, promises! The world is littered with them. Promises from politicians, blandly spoken, without knowledge of the problems involved in fulfilling them. Promises from retailers, with assurances that the order is being dealt with…
Pentecost People
Pentecost People
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama: Pentecost People – Acts 2: 1-21- (Could be used as a substitute for a sermon, or in an interactive service, or in a discussion group. The characters could lead into topics for discussion or conversation.) Reader - Acts 2: 1-21 Narrator: Can you imagine what it must have be…
Shine Lord into the shadows of this world
Shine Lord into the shadows of this world
by John Birch
Shine Lord into the shadows of this world and by the light of your people dispel the darkness that this world might glimpse your grace and seeing it might understand the difference. A selection of John's short prayers have been grouped together in to one download - 'Four Line Pr…
LWPT Meditations - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Amos 8:1-12 Colossians 1:15-28 Luke 10:38-42 We have almost forgotten that Christianity is a radical phenomenon. In the UK – even in our present pluralistic society – Church and State are closely linked. On national occasions we are …
Flawed and fickle priests and people
Flawed and fickle priests and people
by Andrew Pratt
Flawed and fickle priests and people - hymn Third Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 Flawed and fickle priests and people, like young children playing games, running, squabbling, teasing, laughing, calling one another names. But the children's understanding Jesus t…
The Pastoral Letters - Human Families and God's Family
The Pastoral Letters - Human Families and God's Family
by SPCK - N T Wright
Human Families and God’s Family 1Timothy 5.1-8 I know a wonderful couple who have 11 children. Mind you, they didn’t have 11 together. His first wife died; her first husband died; they then met and married; and when they put his six and her five together, lo and behold, they had …
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Entertaining Angels Unawares