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Luke for Everyone - The Birth of Jesus
Luke for Everyone - The Birth of Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Birth of Jesus Luke 2.1-20 If you try to point out something to a dog, the dog will often look at your finger instead of at the object you’re trying to point to. This is frustrating, but it illustrates a natural mistake we all make from time to time. It’s the mistake many peo…
Reflection/monologue: God and Nineveh
Reflection/monologue: God and Nineveh
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/monologue: God and Nineveh God must have loved Nineveh. Look how much trouble he took to save it. The right man had to be sent, but what happened when God told him to get on with it? Jonah said, ‘No fear! I’m not going near the place. I’m off in the other direction as …
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 12 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 12 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 12 Hosea 1.2–10 Colossians 2.6–19 Luke 11.1–13 Part of the prophetic vocation seems to have been to carry the pain of the message in one’s own soul. Thus it was, at least, with Hosea. Married to a prostitute, he felt not only the pain of Israel but also the pain of God, …
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - A Few Things You Could Pray For
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - A Few Things You Could Pray For
by SPCK - John Goldingay
A Few Things You Can Pray For 1 Kings 8:31-40 I just had a phone call from the rector of the church where I am to preach on Sunday. It will be Pentecost, and I thought they were asking me just because they wanted a guest preacher for that festival, but she had apparently forgotte…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - How Do You Know?
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - How Do You Know?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How Do You Know? Genesis 15: 8-15 A friend of mine has been in the process of falling in love with someone he met through an online dating service. She lives in a city some way away, far enough to make driving there for the weekend possible but not much fun, so he often flies, bu…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 Psalm 79:1-9. 1st Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 16:1-13 God wants all people to be saved and to know the truth (1st Timothy 2:4). God alone has provided salvation “for all men”. He is the one God, and Jesus is “the one mediato…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Lent - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Lent - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 2nd Sun of Lent Year B Genesis 17 v 1-7,15-16 Psalm 22 23-31 Romans 4 v 13-25 Mark 8 v 31-38 When Jesus cried out those terrible words from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” he was speaking the first verse of Psalm 22 - actually a song of praise -…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Advent - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Advent - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Third Sunday of Advent Yr A Isaiah 35:1-10 Psalm 146:5-10 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 John the Baptist had put his full faith in Jesus. He had foretold Jesus’ coming, heralded him as the Lamb of God, sent his own disciples to follow him. But John’s faith had not be…
God is in the thick of living
God is in the thick of living
by Andrew Pratt
God is in the thick of living, in the midst of love and life; God is in our haste and hurry, in our peace and through our strife. At the crux of every crisis, with the wounded and bereft, Christ is crucified, derided, knows our punishment and stress. This is God, incarnate, wit…
Hymn: We trust in one we name as God
Hymn: We trust in one we name as God
by Andrew Pratt
We trust in one we name as God, above all else we see; the ground of being, God of love, will hold and set us free. And all our worship, praise and prayer, can't magnify the grace that God is pouring all the while on us, within this place. Verse 3 follows Tune: BELMONT Metre: CM …
Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas/New Year Meditation
Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas/New Year Meditation
by Andrew Pratt
Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas/New Year Meditation - Use these words to introduce the hymn or as part of a time of contemplation as Christmas becomes 'Christmas past' and we try to make sense of it as the year turns. Extract: Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas…
Hymn: Great God of change and constant contradiction
Hymn: Great God of change and constant contradiction
by Andrew Pratt
Great God of change and constant contradiction, we sense your presence everywhere we go; while you transcend all human understanding, our praise on earth will sing, will rise and grow. How can we reach beyond our human compass? Great God, your grace can bring us to our knees. Our…
John for Everyone part 2 - No King but Caesar
John for Everyone part 2 - No King but Caesar
by SPCK - N T Wright
No King but Caesar John 19.8-16a From our seats, high in the stands, we watched as the football match swung this way and that. Our team was doing well and scored a couple of early goals. We were delighted; surely they could hang on to a lead like that? When the opposition scored …
Job for Everyone - A Witness in the Heavens?
Job for Everyone - A Witness in the Heavens?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
A Witness in the Heavens? Job 16: 18- 17: 16 When I was a young assistant pastor in London (what would now be called a youth pastor, but youth pastors hadn’t been invented yet), one of the prize members of our largely middleclass youth group was a teenager from the local projects…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Stuff Happens
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Stuff Happens
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Stuff Happens Genesis 12: 6b-10 Three or four years ago, a friend of mine got a job as a youth pastor on the East Coast. It meant his wife had to give up her job in California, but she had originally come from the East Coast, and she was entirely happy to make the move. They foun…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The Expulsion and Its Consequences
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The Expulsion and Its Consequences
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Expulsion and Its Consequences Genesis 3: 23-24 I was once walking through the seminary campus when I spotted a former student, whom I had known quite well, sitting in a patio area with rather a disconsolate look. When I asked him if he was OK, he replied, “I’ve made a train …
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The First Family, the First Worship, the First Acceptance, the First Rejection