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Psalms for Everyone - Who Is Really God (and Do you Treat Him as Such?)
Psalms for Everyone - Who Is Really God (and Do you Treat Him as Such?)
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Who Is Really God (and Do You Treat Him as Such)? Psalm 29 Without being fully aware of what she was doing, on the eve of her daughter’s wedding my innocent, soon-to-be wife agreed with her prospective son-in-law’s mother (who was the matriarch of a large, Mexican, Roman Catholic…
Poem/reflection: What happened to wisdom?
Poem/reflection: What happened to wisdom?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/reflection: What happened to wisdom? Whatever happened to the idea of the wisdom of age? Why is it that when I shop, or sit on a train, or walk through the town, I am treated as invisible by anyone under the age of thirty? Even in church I can be considered as irrelevant, si…
Drama/dialogue: Eastern strangers
Drama/dialogue: Eastern strangers
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama/dialogue: Eastern strangers (A piece for two voices. The first one reads straight to the audience, as if ignoring the interruptions. The second interacts with the audience, letting them in on the comments and questions. Only in the last three lines do the two speakers relat…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Romans 12: 9-21 In chapter 12 of his letter to the Romans, Paul has reached an interesting and, I think, surprising point in his argument. Since chapter 1 he has been developing a statement regarding righteousness by faith, first of …
LWPT Meditations - Epiphany - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Epiphany - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Epiphany Yr A Isaiah 60:1-6 Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14 Ephesians 3:1-12 Matthew 2:1-2 Epiphany provides an afterglow that prolongs the light and joy of our Christmas celebrations, before we settle back into the weeks that will lead us to Lent. We love the story of the thre…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The First Family, the First Worship, the First Acceptance, the First Rejection
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The First Family, the First Worship, the First Acceptance, the First Rejection
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The First Family, the First worship, the First Acceptance, the First Rejection Genesis 4: 1-5a I once went through quite a long period of time (several years, I think) when God did not seem very real. I didn’t exactly doubt whether God was there; it was just that I didn’t feel Go…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 12 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 12 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 12 Luke 11: 1-13 Gaze on a clear night sky, full of stars, and a partial moon that lights up your way along the narrow village streets. Hear the frantic banging, waking everyone in the house. Who can it be at this time of night – there must be a fire somewhere, or a death.…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Challenge of Faith
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Challenge of Faith
by SPCK - N T Wright
1 THE WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT THE CHALLENGE OF FAITH James 1: 2-8 I used to think the waves had come from far away. Standing by the sea and watching the grey-green monsters roll in, it was easy to imagine that this wave, and then this one, and then the one after that, had made the j…
Strange how those, the least expected,
Strange how those, the least expected,
by Andrew Pratt
Strange how those, the least expected, offer thanks for acts of grace; while so many take for granted costly gifts as common place. Children take the care we offer, never know what love has cost, soon they grow in independence, soon the bonds of birth seem lost. Verses 3-4 follow…
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 14 - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 14 - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 14 Lord Jesus, true bread from heaven, giving life and refreshment to the world, fill our lives with your goodness, fill your church with your presence, that we may live and work to your praise and glory, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, are one God, now and forev…
Body - Chapter 3 - The resurrection body (part 2)
Body - Chapter 3 - The resurrection body (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The resurrection body (part 2) What kind of resurrection bodies? But someone will ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?’ Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a ba…
How God Became King - 4c Matthew: The Story Reaches Its Goal
How God Became King - 4c Matthew: The Story Reaches Its Goal
by SPCK - N T Wright
Matthew: The Story Reaches Its Goal The most obvious place to begin is right at the beginning – with the genealogy with which Matthew opens his book. Most of us, I suspect, probably skip this when we decide to read the New Testament right through for ourselves…
the historical character of Jesus - 7c Jesus in 2 Peter
the historical character of Jesus - 7c Jesus in 2 Peter
by SPCK - David Allen
Jesus in 2 Peter Whereas the first Petrine epistle laid significant emphasis on Jesus’ suffering, and especially on the suffering he endured in his death, 2 Peter pursues a somewhat different avenue in terms of its presentation of Jesus…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 10 Direction and Counsel
The Monastery Of The Heart - 10 Direction and Counsel
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Direction and Counsel “Do everything with counsel and you will not be sorry afterward.” Benedictine spirituality sets out to build communities that, together, seek the universal God, that hold the wounded of the world in one heart, and that serve the world by being for it oases o…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Everything Has Its Time