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God’s grace extends beyond our comprehension
God’s grace extends beyond our comprehension
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: God’s grace extends beyond our comprehension Proper 19 Year A Matthew 18: 21-35 God’s grace extends beyond our comprehension, beyond the limits that we put on love. God calls us to forgiveness and redemption, sometimes the bar is just too high above. When we are wronged God…
God's love can never be undone
God's love can never be undone
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: God's love can never be undone Proper 15 year A Romans 1: 1 – 2a, 29 - 32 God's love can never be undone, the covenant be broken, God's mercy never fades or ends, the source of grace has spoken. No disobedience demands a final separation... Tune: ST COLUMBA (IRISH) Ninth Su…
Great God we call to you for love
Great God we call to you for love
by Andrew Pratt
Great God we call to you for love to hold us through the night, to shield us from the words that speak of ridicule or spite. Oh gracious God remove the guilt that binds us to the past, that then forgiven, loved and free we’ll know your grace can last. Verses 3-4 follow Tune: NATI…
How can humans cause such carnage
How can humans cause such carnage
by Andrew Pratt
How can humans cause such carnage, ravage all the earth? How can people slaughter children they have brought to birth? Have we lost all moral sense, or is this just our human curse? When we turn the page of history life can seem so cheap. As we read of Herod’s hatred we are moved…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Hebrews 12:18-29 Luke 13:10-17 The author of the letter to the Hebrews is one of the most impassioned writers in the Bible. He is so insistent about his message that one can envisage him as a lapel-grabber, and this week’s passage in…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Matthew 18: 21-35 Romans 14: 1-12 Today’s readings from Matthew (18 v 21-35) and Romans (14 v 1-12) have a great deal to say about the way we Christians behave towards others, including fellow believers. Forgiveness first; forgivenes…
clouds and glory - Dedication Sunday - Year A
clouds and glory - Dedication Sunday - Year A
by SPCK - David Adam
Dedication Sunday Year A The First Sunday in October or Last Sunday after Trinity We give you thanks and praise for this church, for all who have here found healing and peace, for all who have found new hope and forgiveness, for all who have bowed before you in love and worship. …
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Coveting Can Kill
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Coveting Can Kill
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Coveting Can Kill JOSHUA 7: 16-26 Today (as I am writing this) is Black Friday, when the stores hope to get their books into the black as the year draws toward an end. People will have been lining up all night or will have got up at crazily early hours to get a plasma TV for a hu…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fifth Sunday of Lent Luke 12.1-8 Gaze on this cosy domestic setting, spruced up for a special celebration. It seems that this house is the nearest Jesus came to an adult family home. Martha is being Martha again – the carer in the kitchen. Mary is being Mary as ever – impetuo…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 18 Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 18 Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 18 Deuteronomy 30.15–20 Philemon 1–21 Luke 14.25–33 Which of your letters would you like preserved for a couple of millennia? Philemon is one of the most ‘domestic’ of the documents of the New Testament, and it is impossible not to read it like an unfinished novel. What ha…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Proper 2 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Proper 2 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 2 Luke 6.17-26 Gaze on the waiting room in a busy hospital. Pale walls bear replica Monets and dull still lifes of sallow fruit, and these are meant to calm you somehow. Lino echoes with each nurse’s step. People sit around, some chatting quietly, others gaze ahead, each p…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Praying in the Faith
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Praying in the Faith
by SPCK - N T Wright
Praying in the Faith James 5.13-20 There are many things in life which look extremely odd to someone who doesn’t know what’s going on. Imagine watching someone making a musical instrument if you’d never heard music in your life. What, you might think, can such an object possibly …
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 12 Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 12 Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 12 Genesis 18.20–32 Colossians 2.6–15 Luke 11.1–13 This story from Genesis is often told as though it is about Abraham bargaining with God. Abraham, the generous and merciful, pleads with God, the bloodthirsty and violent, and gradually manages to calm God down and get him…
We have no licence through our faith
We have no licence through our faith
by Andrew Pratt
We have no licence through our faith to carve a way of wrong, yet Christ has loved beyond the law, brought freedom to our song. In foolishness we build again the walls that Christ broke down, no human law is needed now for judgement wears no frown. Verses 3-5 Follow Tune: ABRIDGE…
We gather in this holy space
We gather in this holy space
by Andrew Pratt
We gather in this holy space. We pray in penitence and awe. Your spirit moves within this place, we bow, as we have done before. Your law is written on each heart, your love will penetrate each soul, you bring through music, thought and art a covenant to make us whole. Verses 3-4…
Where bodies hang in bloody torment