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Reflection: Royalty
Reflection: Royalty
by Marjorie Dobson
Psalm 99 Reflection: Royalty In our so-called civilised world, evil leaders rule with cruelty, violence and a total disregard for the welfare of their people. Other, manipulative people prefer to be the power behind their leader’s throne and use cunning, political scheming, bribe…
Poem/reflection: What happened to wisdom?
Poem/reflection: What happened to wisdom?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/reflection: What happened to wisdom? Whatever happened to the idea of the wisdom of age? Why is it that when I shop, or sit on a train, or walk through the town, I am treated as invisible by anyone under the age of thirty? Even in church I can be considered as irrelevant, si…
Open with God Book - May - Christian Aid Week (week 20)
Open with God Book - May - Christian Aid Week (week 20)
by Christine Odell
May – Christian Aid Week (week 20) Calendar of Prayers Reading Psalm 146.5-9 Our God, we praise and thank you for the abundant love you pour out upon us: for giving us this world to provide for our needs; for giving us free will so that we can choose to express our humanity by lo…
The Pastoral Letters - Elders
The Pastoral Letters - Elders
by SPCK - N T Wright
Elders 1Timothy 5.17-25 I had an urgent message the other day from a friend. He is a priest, and was applying for a new job in a different country. The trouble is that he has family responsibilities, and after doing all the calculations he reckoned he simply couldn’t live on the …
John for Everyone part 2 - The True Vine
John for Everyone part 2 - The True Vine
by SPCK - N T Wright
The True Vine John 15.1-8 One of many areas in which I possess near-total incompetence is gardening. We have moved house so many times that I have never had the chance to develop an instinct for which plants do well where and in what kind of soil and light. Once or twice I have p…
The Pastoral Letters - Widows
The Pastoral Letters - Widows
by SPCK - N T Wright
Widows 1Timothy 5.9-16 I like the old joke about the two different types of people. You can divide the world into two: those who think there are two types of people and those who disagree. But there really are two types when it comes to establishing a new community. There are the…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Come Blow Your Horn
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Come Blow Your Horn
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Come Blow Your Horn JOSHUA 6: 1-21 In New Orleans over the weekend for a meeting (I have such a hard job) I talked with Tom Wright, author of The New Testament for Everyone series, and with staff from the publishers. I remarked that the most demanding aspect of this project is ha…
Isaiah for Everyone - Egypt My People
Isaiah for Everyone - Egypt My People
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Egypt My People Yesterday I had dinner with two people home from working in the Middle East, one in a Christian university to the north of Israel, the other in a seminary to the south. In both countries the Christian community is a minority in a tough context where increasing num…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Lent - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Lent - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 3rd Sun of Lent Year B Exodus 20: 1-17 Psalm 19 1st Corinthians 1: 18-25 John 2: 13-22 In Exodus 20, God gave the Israelites the Ten Commandments that were to form the basis of their Law. As present-day humans we don’t like laws much. One has only to observe how indi…
Hymn: Look: fantastic celebration