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Monologue: The Ethiopian’s story
Monologue: The Ethiopian’s story
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: The Ethiopian’s story What an amazing coincidence! I still find it hard to explain – even after telling so many people the story. Some of them found it almost impossible to believe that it happened. But I know it did. How would you have felt if it had happened to you? …
Last Journeys with Jesus - Holy Week Service
Last Journeys with Jesus - Holy Week Service
by Christine Odell
Last Journeys with Jesus A service of readings, Hymns, eyewitness meditations and prayers suitable for Good Friday/Holy Week Out of the Tomb – John 11:32-44 – Lazarus I am aware of darkness. I am alone and icy cold. I cannot move, for the bonds of death hold me fast. I am beyon…
Harmony? - poem
Harmony? - poem
by Marjorie Dobson
Harmony? - poem Trinity Sunday Year A 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13 Dear Lord, how wonderful it would be if we could always agree with one another. It would be even better if we could always live in peace with each other. As for greeting each other with a holy kiss … … 19 June 2011, Tr…
God Unkown-Prayer
God Unkown-Prayer
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God unknown Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 17: 22-31 In Athens, Paul found statues of many gods and one to an ‘unknown god’. So we pray today for those many people who have not yet found God in their lives. God, we know you and we are known to you. We pray now … for those wh…
Poem: Fireworks
Poem: Fireworks
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Fireworks We can cope with God in the background, quiet, comfortable and contained: there when needed, but not interfering in our day-to-day business or our personal preferences. But God isn’t always silent. Sometimes there are fireworks... Continues ©Marjorie Dobson
God who has called us
God who has called us
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God who has called us Proper 25 year A 1 Thessalonians 2: 1-8 God who has called us, through Jesus, to be your disciples, you send us out among your people with your message of hope and love, forgiveness and reconciliation. But we are not always confident about speaking o…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 2 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 2 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 2 2 Kings 5.1–14 1 Corinthians 9.24–27 Mark 1.40–45 Mark’s Gospel is almost certainly the oldest of the four Gospels. Matthew and Luke seem to know it and depend upon it for some of their information, though they do also have independent sources of their own. It is possibl…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 29thSunday in Ordinary Time Year B Job 38 v 1-7 Psalm 104 v 1-9, 24, 35c Hebrews 5 v 1-10 Mark 10 v 35-45 It was towards the end of Jesus’ earthly ministry, and his disciples were still arguing about greatness. James and John thought they were the greatest, and asked …
God makes a mockery of death
God makes a mockery of death
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: God makes a mockery of death Sixth Sunday of Easter 1 Peter 3: 13 – 22 God makes a mockery of death, the Spirit is consistent, an Advocate will keep our part, in this Christ is insistent. We are not orphans, will not be beyond God's loving Spirit. And all that Christ has be…
Hymn: In many ways we designate
Hymn: In many ways we designate
by Andrew Pratt
In many ways we designate the boundaries of faith and by unconscious bigotry condemn the human race. Our human rules constrain the grace, the love that God can give, as though we have authority to judge or to forgive. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: CLAUDIUS Metre: DCM Andrew Pratt (bo…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Epiphany - Year A Isaiah 49.1–7 1 Corinthians 1.1–9 John 1.29–42 To be called by God is a thing of joy and terror, in about equal measures. The Corinthians are largely experiencing the excitement, at present, but their walk of discipleship will certainly lead…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Sunday Next Before Lent Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Sunday Next Before Lent Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Sunday Next Before Lent - Year A Exodus 24.12–18 2 Peter 1.16–21 Matthew 17.1–9 What is the purpose of the transfiguration of Jesus? Is it supposed to reassure and confirm or baffle and alarm? And who is it for? Is it for Jesus himself, or for the disciples? Matthew, like Luk…
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