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Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Humility and Danger
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Humility and Danger
by SPCK - N T Wright
Humility and Danger Matthew 18.1-7 Among the saddest sights in our world, some of the worst, I think, are the glimpses we get of children in need. I think of three children grubbing around in a stinking, smouldering garbage heap on the edge of a South American city. They are bare…
Luke for Everyone - The Celebration of Jesus
Luke for Everyone - The Celebration of Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Celebration of Jesus Luke 10.17-24 What was it like being Jesus? That’s one of the hardest questions for anyone reading the gospels, but this passage gives us some clues. It’s all too easy for Christians to make the mistake of thinking that he just sailed through life with ea…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Calming of the Storm
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Calming of the Storm
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Calming of the Storm Matthew 8.23-27 The sea has always been a symbol of wild, untamable power. You only have to stand beside the ocean, even on a calm day, to sense something of it. There is so much of it, for a start; when the tide comes in, up a beach, imagine how many gal…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Amen Anyway
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Amen Anyway
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Amen Anyway Psalm 89:52 There is a play by Elie Wiesel called The Trial of God, set in a concentration camp and based on something the author witnessed at the end of the trial, God is found guilty of crimes against creation and humankind. After a period of silence, a Talmudic sch…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Beautiful Tents, Jacob
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Beautiful Tents, Jacob
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Beautiful Tents, Jacob NUMBERS 23: 25 24: 25 As a boy I sang in a cathedral choir. One of my favorite anthems was “How Goodly Are Thy Tents, O Jacob,” composed by a Victorian composer called Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, a professor of music at Oxford, a prolific composer …
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Five Pushy Women
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Five Pushy Women
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Five Pushy Women NUMBERS 26:52- 27: 11 I just came across someone’s list of the five feminist biblical scholars who had most influenced him. The idea of “feminist” biblical scholars is that these are people who in their study of Scripture are conscious of their particular identit…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Election
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Election
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Election Deuteronomy 7: 7-15 In a newsy e-mail, a former student included the following information (I have disguised the material, of course, as usual): “I have developed an embarrassingly silly crush on the postdoctoral fellow who teaches some of the Semitic languages here. …
LWPT Meditations - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 2nd Samuel 11: 26-12: 13 Psalm 51: 1-12 Ephesians 4: 1-16 John 6: 24-35 We can usually see what is wrong with other people. David saw immediately the injustice committed by the rich man in the story that Nathan related. What he did…
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Easter Day Year C Acts 10:34-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 1st Corinthians 15:19-26 Luke 24:1-12 When Luke wrote his gospel, he had in mind that Jesus had been a man, living on this earth like any other human, and he wrote to make the good news available and accessible to …
LWPT Meditations - Sunday Before Advent - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Sunday Before Advent - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- Sunday before Advent Year B 2nd Samuel 23 v 1-7 Psalm 132 v 1-12 Revelation 1 v 4b-8 John 18 v 33-37 “When one rules in the fear of God, when he rules over men in righteousness, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness aft…
A mirage, nothing more
A mirage, nothing more
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: A mirage, nothing more Proper 17 Year A Jeremiah 15: 15 – 21 A mirage, nothing more, that’s how God often seems, for even though we keep the faith, is God a God of dreams? We pray by night and day, but answers seem remote, and then detractors laugh at us, make fun of us and…
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…
Dialogue/Drama: Trinity
Dialogue/Drama: Trinity
by Andrew Pratt
Dialogue/Drama: Trinity (a piece for two voices) Male voice: They say things always come in threes, but so does my confusion. Or is this all illusion? They say that God is one, but that Jesus Christ his son is yet another one. A God that is. But twisting things still further, say…
God had gone up with a shout
God had gone up with a shout
by Andrew Pratt
God had gone up with a shout, sound the trumpets, humble humanity raised into light. Stunned by the after-shock, standing in wonder, orphaned disciples were thrust into night. Ours is their heritage born out of history, yet God transcends all the life that we know: grounding and …
God's presence was seen in the person of Jesus
God's presence was seen in the person of Jesus
by Andrew Pratt
Third Sunday of Advent Year A Matthew 11: 2 – 11 Hymn: God's presence was seen in the person of Jesus God's presence was seen in the person of Jesus where people found healing and wholeness and grace, miraculous wonders and love without measure, the touch of his hands and the loo…
Hymn: A troubled soul, the Christ of God
Hymn: A troubled soul, the Christ of God
by Andrew Pratt
A troubled soul, the Christ of God, humanity exposed, with all the turmoil that we feel, when choices are proposed. The monumental choice he faced, the crisis must be met, to take the path of love to death, or turn away, forget. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: ELLACOMBE Metre: DCM Andr…
Hymn: Flint-faced against all fears and all disasters
Hymn: Flint-faced against all fears and all disasters
by Andrew Pratt
Flint-faced against all fears and all disasters, while squaring up to those who wish us harm, we trust in God for now, and what comes after, and hope for grace to mend, to soothe and calm. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: INTERCESSOR Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 17/2/2012 Stainer & …
Hymn: We each hold within us a trace of the God-head