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Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving The Gift Of Our Being
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving The Gift Of Our Being
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
The mind divides, categorizes, analyses, and defines. Our souls open, wonder, suffer, and love. To receive the gift of being we must let go of the ways we define and give names to who we are. We cannot receive the gift of our being unless we suspend our own self-conceptions and d…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
The world, our lives, our daily bread, our loved ones, our opportunities, our challenges and difficulties—all are gifts. Even the innate capacity to receive is a gift. There is not a single moment in life in which we are not given something. We can begin to notice this; we can in…
Open with God Book - July - NCH (week 29)
Open with God Book - July - NCH (week 29)
by Christine Odell
July – NCH Action for Children (week 29) Calendar of Prayers Reading Matthew 18.2-7 This prayer could be adapted for other children’s charities. Have a small display of pictures, information and/or small items associated with childhood. Living God, we thank you for the mysterious…
Drama: Any objections?
Drama: Any objections?
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama: Any objections? ‘Any objections if I baptise these people?’ he asked. Well, what could we say? And would it have made any difference if we’d said, ‘Yes'? Not one bit, I suspect. We may not have been able to take in the evidence of our own eyes, but it was there and we coul…
Constant God we offer praises
Constant God we offer praises
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Constant God we offer praises Proper 12 year A Psalm 105: 1 – 11, 45b Constant God we offer praises, God of history, God of might, God of every generation, God of covenant and light. God of miracle and wonder, God of ages, yet the same... Tune: SUSSEX 24 July 2011, Sixth Su…
Hymn: Rejoice! Rejoice! Again I say rejoice!
Hymn: Rejoice! Rejoice! Again I say rejoice!
by Andrew Pratt
Rejoice! Rejoice! Again I say rejoice! Our God is near, it's time to make our choice, in gentleness and purposeful in grace, to share God's love in every time and place. Rejoice! Rejoice! Again I say rejoice! Put fear aside, let prayer inspire each voice. This is the gift that ea…
friends, FOES and families - It is not by strength that one prevails: Hannah
friends, FOES and families - It is not by strength that one prevails: Hannah
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
It is not by strength that one prevails: Hannah 1 Samuel 1-2; Luke 2 Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed. (1 Samuel 2.3)...
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Christmas Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Christmas Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Christmas John 1. [1-9] 10-18 Gaze on all of God’s glorious creation, at once so mysterious and yet so familiar. It is hard to find an image today that captures the carefulness of God’s work, for we are in a world where everything is mass produced, and we are…
Jeremiah for everyone - An Ambassador in Chains
Jeremiah for everyone - An Ambassador in Chains
by SPCK - John Goldingay
An Ambassador in Chains When Paul was apparently in prison in Rome, he wrote letters to a number of churches. In church today I was struck by a passage in which he describes himself as an ambassador in chains and asks the Christians in Ephesus to pray for him so that he’d be bold…
Jeremiah for everyone - Why Do the Faithless Do Well?
Jeremiah for everyone - Why Do the Faithless Do Well?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Why Do the Faithless Do Well? In connection with Jeremiah’s opening chapter, I mentioned a “How” question in connection with disability. There’s also a “Why” question. My first wife was wheelchair-bound and unable to do anything for herself for the last twelve years of her life…
God's Wondrous Love (Orchardknowes)
God's Wondrous Love (Orchardknowes)
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn is based on words of St. Hippolytus of Rome (c170-c236): "This tree, wide as the heavens itself, has grown up into heaven from the earth. It is an immortal growth and towers between heaven and earth. It is the fulcrum of all things...the centre of the cosmos." Here the …
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