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Clouds and Glory Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
Clouds and Glory Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
by SPCK - David Adam
The Third Sunday of Easter Acts 2. 14a, 36-41: Psalm. 116. 1-4, 12-19 (or 1-8) : 1 Peter 1. 17-23 : Luke 24. 13-35 Abide with us Lord, throughout this day. Abide with us in our journeying, and in our homes. Abide with us in our seeking and in our longings. Abide with us now and t…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B Service Contains: Hymn: Morning has broken or Sunlight glinting on the water Prayer: Generous and caring God, we come Hymn: Have faith in God, my heart or Blown by the winds of chance and fault Psalm 1: Poem: Which way? Reading: Acts 1:15-17, 21-…
HYMN - Our God will never lose the love
HYMN - Our God will never lose the love
by Andrew Pratt
HYMN - Our God will never lose the love – Theme covers: Easter, resurrection, Lazarus, Jairus’ daughter, bereavement, Romans 8, Psalms 121 TUNE: ALSTONE Also available in PowerPoint Format - Click Here Extract: Our God will never lose the love, the sense of human need and pain. O…
HYMN - I love my God with all my heart
HYMN - I love my God with all my heart
by Andrew Pratt
HYMN - I love my God with all my heart - Theme Covered: Easter, resurrection, Mary Magdalene, conversion, commitment TUNE: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING METER: 8.7.8.7 Also available in PowerPoint Format - Click Here Extract: I love my God with all my heart, I thank God that I'm li…
Linguistic Gymnastics
Linguistic Gymnastics
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Linguistic gymnastics Day of Pentecost Year A Acts 2: 1 – 21 Linguistic gymnastics, they heard in each tongue the message of Jesus, the Spirit had come! This message was spoken, still here in our sight God's essence is living, we live in the light. God's Word is dynamic, th…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 1.6–14 1 Peter 4.12–14; 5.6–11 John 17.1–11 Poor disciples. What they have been through over the last few weeks! What wild swings of emotion they have had to deal with. First of all the horrors of Good Friday, with the anguish they felt …
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 2.14a, 22–32 1 Peter 1.3–9 John 20.19–31 What makes people believe? Probably the reasons are as numerous as the people who give them. Today’s readings provide just a few examples. In the Gospel, we have two sets of responses. First of all…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Third Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on Luke 24: 13-35 Gaze in your memory on the many times in your life you’ve met with a stranger. Remember the anxious feelings – the butterflies in your stomach, or the fear of embarrassment. You go to a new school, where you don’t k…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 20: 19-31 Gaze on the doors of the house – note the plural. First there is the heavy external door, the main protection for the property, made of solid wood with massive hinges, and then another at the top of the stairs behi…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 10: 1-10 Gaze or, this time, listen. Listen to a person’s voice and wonder what it is about the timbre that makes it recognizable. Each voice has a trace as unique as a fingerprint. Voices do not age in the same way as our f…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 14: 1-14 Gaze on all the maps you use in daily life. On a trip to London, you stare at the maze of the Underground, trying to follow the snake-like threads of the different lines, and make sense of the colour codes. There’s t…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 17: 1-11 Gaze on some of the earliest Christian paintings, the third-century frescos in the catacombs of Rome. On the wall of the catacomb of Priscilla is depicted a Christian worshipping God – standing upright with a praye…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Easter Sunday Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Easter Sunday Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Easter Sunday - Year A Jeremiah 31.1–6 Colossians 3.1–4 John 20.1–18 Real life is something so unusual that we can barely recognize it. Occasionally, we get a glimpse of it and it touches us with awe: the birth of a baby, for example, or listening to a perfectly performed piece o…
Poem: Always missing, never grasping
Poem: Always missing, never grasping
by Andrew Pratt
(Doubting Thomas after Leonard Cohen’s song 'Suzanne' which has the line: '…and Jesus was a sailor...') Always missing, never grasping, hope amid this shifting sea, coast and haven seem remote now, too far off to harbour me. Yet those fishermen are telling news that I can't compr…
Reflection/Meditation: 'What are you doing this afternoon?'
Reflection/Meditation: 'What are you doing this afternoon?'
by Andrew Pratt
Reflection/Meditation: 'What are you doing this afternoon?' 'What are you doing this afternoon?' I'd been referred to an ophthalmologist. He thought I might lose my sight. There was a possibility of chronic glaucoma. This was 11 o'clock. By 3 that afternoon I'd had laser treatmen…
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 5th Sunday of Easter Year B Acts 8: 26-40 Psalm 22: 25-31 1 John 4: 7-21 John 15: 1-8 I once went into a cafe to buy my dog a sandwich. She was hungry and I had forgotten to pack any dog biscuits with our picnic. Of course, I didn’t want to admit the sandwich was for…
Back to Jerusalem
Back to Jerusalem
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 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…
Herod Meets Jesus