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My practical theology DJW - God and humankind - are they compatible?
My practical theology DJW - God and humankind - are they compatible?
by David John Woodman
This practical theology has developed over many years and discusses some of the seemingly incompatible aspects of God and humankind, good and evil and in relation to some scientific theories that I believe has an impact on these questions. I see no impossibility between the quest…
Poem: What the Devil …?
Poem: What the Devil …?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: What the Devil …? The Devil tempting Jesus in the desert didn’t wear a red body stocking and a cloak, or carry a pitchfork, or have a black beard and fierce eyes, and there was certainly no tail to be seen. That would have given the game away far too easily. No, The Devil t…
Arthur's Call - Through the wilderness years
Arthur's Call - Through the wilderness years
by SPCK - Frances Young
2 Through the wilderness years In the Bible the wilderness is a place of testing and doubt, but also a privileged place where God confronts and calls his people. In this chapter I retell my own version of this paradoxical experience…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 17 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 17 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Ordinary Time Proper 17 Exodus 3.1–15 Romans 12.9–21 Matthew 16.21–28 Peter, like Moses, hid his face, afraid to look upon God. He wanted to see God’s messianic movement launched, but not like this; Moses had wanted to see Israel liberated, and h…
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - St Valentine's Day
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - St Valentine's Day
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book THROUGH THE YEAR ST VALENTINE’S DAY By Stuart Kerner Suitable for Whole School Aim To consider what love really means. Preparation and materials • Prepare a large photocopy, OHP transparency or PowerPoint slide of the statue of Eros: som…
Imagining the Lectionary: confronting the reality of evil (Easter 7B)
Imagining the Lectionary: confronting the reality of evil (Easter 7B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Confronting the reality of evil (Easter 7B) Reflection accompanying image “Demon locked within” My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. (John 17:15) Jesus never prayed that his disciples would f…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 22ndSunday in Ordinary Time Year A Romans 12: 9-21 In our passage from Romans, this week, Paul is continuing his discourse on putting righteousness into practice within the Church and the wider world. He makes three further main points: Love Bear up under persecution…
friends, FOES and families - Cain was very angry: and his face downcast: Cain and Abel
friends, FOES and families - Cain was very angry: and his face downcast: Cain and Abel
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Cain was very angry, and his face downcast: Cain and Abel Genesis 4 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith. (1 Peter 5.8 – 9)...
Open with God Book - Good Friday Prayer
Open with God Book - Good Friday Prayer
by Christine Odell
Good Friday Reading: Mark 15.20b-39 or Mark 15.6-39 Place a cross somewhere prominent and ask those present to reflect on it and the feelings of the first disciples on Good Friday. Nothing can prepare us, loving God, for the reality of this day. We, Christ’s disciples, had not wa…
Poem: A man with a devil
Poem: A man with a devil
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: A man with a devil It took a man with a problem – a man with a devil inside him, they said – to recognize the real nature of Jesus first. There was the knowledge that here stood an enemy of evil. There was fear that the holiness of God could drive that evil away. There was …
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 1.15-17, 21-26 1John 5.9-13 John 17.6-19 What would you like people to pray for on your behalf? What is your most usual – truthful – prayer request? Does Jesus’s prayer for his disciples match your expectations in any way? This prayer comes as Je…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 10 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 10 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 10 Mark 6: 14-29 Gaze on all the Herods of this world and all the gratuitous violence they unleash. Gaze on all the ethnic cleansing that has gone on down the ages – innocents massacred, women raped and the elderly displaced, staring at us every day from our newspapers, dr…
Job for Everyone - The Silence of Friends
Job for Everyone - The Silence of Friends
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Silence of Friends Job 2: 9-13 The day my first wife died, we were planning to go to the beach, so I went on my own the next day. This may sound weird, but it seemed to make sense at the time, and when I got home I was glad I had gone, because there were twelve messages on th…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 73:1, 20, 25