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Prayer: Transforming God
Prayer: Transforming God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Transforming God Transforming God, we thank you that in Christ you showed us how everything about our lives could change and we could be recreated by you. Yet, so often we need to come back to you again to ask for forgiveness, as we slip back into our very human ways and …
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Introduction
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
Introduction On the very first occasion when someone stood up in public to tell people about Jesus, he made it very clear: this message is for everyone. It was a great day – sometimes called the birthday of the church. The great wind of God’s spirit had swept through Jesus’ follo…
Prayer: God, who understands us
Prayer: God, who understands us
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God, who understands us God, who understands us as we are, please forgive the foolishness of our behaviour and the wilfulness of our ways. We excuse ourselves by saying we are only human – and we are – but just as our children learn many of their behaviour patterns from u…
Reflection: Father
Reflection: Father
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: Father Father’ can be an impossible word to use for those whose human father was abusive, cruel, brutal, heartless, inadequate, or had deserted them. Yet the Roman Christians were told that they could use that word with the true affection given to a beloved parent. Ho…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Paul's Conversion (One More Time)
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Paul's Conversion (One More Time)
by SPCK - N T Wright
Paul’s Conversion (One More Time) Acts 26.12-23 ‘Listen to the tune,’ says the music teacher. The children sit round her, spellbound. They love this bit. ‘Now sing it back to me – Johnny!’ Johnny does his best. Then Sophie. Then Philip. ‘Well,’ says the teacher, ‘you’re not doing…
Fortynine days to celebrate Easter - Pente - What?
Fortynine days to celebrate Easter - Pente - What?
by Margaret Mason
"Forty-nine days to celebrate Easter? That's seven weeks. We'll never make the Easter eggs last that long! And then Pente - what? " Pilate stamps the file, "Case Closed". He thinks that that is it. A distasteful business, but Jesus the Galilean isn't the first troublemaker he's b…
In the days when questions are insistent - Blessing
In the days when questions are insistent - Blessing
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer/Blessing: In the days when questions are insistent - Blessing Second Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 13 In the days when questions are insistent, but there are no answers, God will listen patiently. In the days when guilt is strong, but nothing can be changed, God will unde…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The First Sunday of Epiphany Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The First Sunday of Epiphany Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The First Sunday of Epiphany Mark 1.4-11 Gaze on a modern-day baptism by total immersion. It might take place in a river, or in a special pool built into a church. The candidates are dressed in clean, crisp white shirts and trousers, and have prepared long and hard for this day…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Fourth Sunday of Lent Numbers 21.4–9 Ephesians 2.1–10 John 3.14–21 The serpent slithers its way through myth and legend, poetry and art. Too potent a symbol to be ignored, some cultures have worshipped it, while others have feared and loathed it. Freud said predictable things…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The Second Sunday Before Lent Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The Second Sunday Before Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday Before Lent - Year A Genesis 1.1—2.3 Romans 8.18–25 Matthew 6.25–34 The project was all set up and ready to go. Creation was more like a perfect studio than a finished painting; everything was there, paints, canvas, artist, and all. It had its own inbuilt rhythm…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 5.27–32 Revelation 1.4–8 John 20.19–end The report of Jesus’ resurrection strikes the chief priests as a threat of God’s judgement. Yes and no, reply the apostles: your guilt is swallowed up in the message of forgiveness, of new Spirit-given life.…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Lent - Year B