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Pentecost Reflection
Pentecost Reflection
by Christine Dutton
These reflections were written for Pentecost worship when the congregation worked in small groups on various ways of working with Acts 2. These were used with a group working with meditative prayer inspired by the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples. Pentecost Reflection T…
Talk in Many Languages
Talk in Many Languages
by Rev Andy Walker
The Disciples meet on the afternoon of Pentecost and discuss how to put their newly acquired langauge skills to good use. Peter has to remind them that gift of the Holy Spirit is for the building up of God's Kingdom and not for the building up of their own personal empires! “Talk…
PENTECOST HYMN - To make disciples drunk with grace
PENTECOST HYMN - To make disciples drunk with grace
by Andrew Pratt
A hymn which explores the coming of the spirit on the day of Pentecost and the way in which all people are caught up by it as prophesied by Joel. Extract: To make disciples drunk with grace you poured your spirit on us all, that everyone should share your gifts, responding to you…
Spirit - A Liturgy
Spirit - A Liturgy
by John Birch
"You breathed this world into being. Your creative Spirit is still visible within our everyday lives; through the changing seasons, the colours and sounds of nature, the rhythm of day and night, sunrise and sunset, tide and wind, rain and shine......." A prayerful liturgy for chu…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 25 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 25 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 25 Jeremiah 31.7-9 Hebrews 7.23-28 Mark 10.46-52 Some theologies sound a bit vague about what happens to Jesus after the resurrection. His work is completed, once for all, on the cross, he is vindicated by the Father through the resurrection, and that’s that. Then, dependi…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Restoring the Twelve
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Restoring the Twelve
by SPCK - N T Wright
Restoring the twelve Acts 1.15-26 The older I get, the more I dislike trying to follow the complicated instructions that come with new technology. I’m not what they call technophobic. On the desk where I am working there is a computer. It is linked to a cell phone which includes …
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 16 Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 16 Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 16 1 Kings 8.[1,6,10-11]22-30, 41-43 Ephesians 6.10-20 John 6.56-69 Jesus returns, at the end of the long ‘bread of life’ discourse, to the central thrust. Don’t look for more loaves and fishes; look for the different dimension of life which the Son of Man offers, the dime…
Simply Good News - Good News - For the World?
Simply Good News - Good News - For the World?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Good News – for the World? If the good news really is what it says, there is all the room in the world for delighted celebration of the gospel in the life of every child, woman, and man. To miss this element – to think of Christianity without this deeply personal aspect – is like…
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer F
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer F
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
14 Eucharistic Prayer F Prayer F is probably the richest prayer in terms of its theology and strong memorable images. Its origins lie in the fourth-century Eucharistic Prayer of St Basil, still in occasional use in the Eastern churches. In the West it has been experienced, in a v…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 53:1, 3