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John for Everyone Part 1 - Is Jesus from God?
John for Everyone Part 1 - Is Jesus from God?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Is Jesus from God? John 9.24-34 One of the most depressing things about war is the way in which both sides routinely invoke God on their side. People now joke about the First World War, in which British army chaplains were praying to God for victory while a few hundred yards away…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 11 Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 11 Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 11 Genesis 18.1–10a Colossians 1.15–28 Luke 10.38–42 From the beginning, human beings have been image-makers, instinctively, compulsively making sense of their world through imagining it. In lives governed by the harshest necessity just to survive, primitive people still…
Joseph
Joseph
by SPCK - Sarah Savage
In this profoundly moving meditation on the character of Joseph in the book of Genesis, Sara Savage takes you on a journey of personal transformation. It is a journey that will lead you to new levels of emotional and spiritual understanding. Like Joseph, every human being needs t…
In the beginning God created v3
In the beginning God created v3
by Mark Boulton
Text Genesis 1 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' Set against NASA background image cosmos. Other images in this series: In the beginning God created - Psalm 19 In the beginning God created v2- Psalm 19 The heavens declare the glory of God - Psalm 19 The h…
Spring daisies
Spring daisies
by Joy Sykes
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
The Gospel According to twilight - Introduction
The Gospel According to twilight - Introduction
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
INTRODUCTION My daughter, an engineering graduate student, had scarcely gotten into the car with her suitcase when she thrust a book into my hands. Twilight. “Mom, you should read this,” she said. “Vampires?” I asked. Really? I had better things to do over Christmas break, and I …
Hymn: Why does it seem..
Hymn: Why does it seem..
by Michael Docker
Why does it seem..? Why does it seem that because there is suffering Someone or something must be to blame? Why does it feel that the world needs an offering - Someone or something to bear all our shame? Deep in our hearts, where there’s no rhyme or reason Something stirs to give…
Bright morning maker
Bright morning maker
by Marjorie Dobson
Hymn: Bright morning maker Trinity Sunday Year A Genesis 1: 1-2, 4a; Psalm 8 Bright morning maker, as your sun breaks through, dawn’s early light reflects in morning dew. So thankful people sing their praise to you: Alleluia Daylight creator, through the busy day, sun, chasing sh…
Formed In God's Image
Formed In God's Image
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn reflects part of the wording in the Great Prayer of Thanksgiving in the eucharistic liturgy, used in varying forms throughout the ages and across the world. In modern liturgies Thomas Cranmer's "our bounden duty" becomes "our joy and our salvation".
The weaver the word and wisdom poem
The weaver the word and wisdom poem
by Michaela Youngson
First Published in The Weaver, The Word and Wisdom Poem The Weaver, the Word and Wisdom In the beginning, the Weaver, the Word and Wisdom moving in relationship together, caught a vision of potential, a glimpse of possibility, and with tentative steps, creation’s dance began...
Simply Good News - Resurrection as the Beginning of a New World