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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Be Defiant in Spirit
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Be Defiant in Spirit
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Be Defiant in Spirit Psalm 138 This morning I received a message from a woman who a year ago was attacked and stabbed by a man while she and a friend were hiking in a forest; her friend was killed but she survived because the man mistakenly thought she was dead. She has re…
God Holds In Gentle Hands
God Holds In Gentle Hands
by James Morley
Funeral word to the tune All Things Bright And Beautiful All things that we did and said God holds in gentle hands All things felt and left unsaid God holds in gentle hands Although our hearts are grieving In sorrow or in pain Such is the mark of loving Till we see you again All …
Dove
Dove
by Olivia Rose Bell
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Imagining the Lectionary: the majesty of God in majestic perspective (Proper 27A; Ordinary 32A)
Imagining the Lectionary: the majesty of God in majestic perspective (Proper 27A; Ordinary 32A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: the majesty of God in majestic perspective (Proper 27A; Ordinary 32A) Reflection accompanying images “site of the majestic cinema” and “majestic cinema floor mosaic in former entrance” "Say an unqualified Yes to God, the God of Israel." (Joshua 24:23) A …
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Paul's Words of Blessing
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Paul's Words of Blessing
by SPCK - N T Wright
Paul’s Words of Blessing Thessalonians 3.11-13 Prayer and music have always gone together in the Christian church, and another musical illustration may help us find ways of making Paul’s prayers our own. When children begin to learn a musical instrument, or to sing, the teacher o…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Nehemiah 8 v 1-3, 5-6, 8-10 Psalm 19 Luke 4 v 14-21 God’s Word is “living and active” (Hebrews 4:12) if we allow it to work in our lives. For those of us whose Bible-reading has become a duty rather than a joy, for those who “tun…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Lent Year C Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 Romans 10:8b-13 Luke 4:1-13 In the lectionary readings for today we have God’s promise that when we call upon him he will answer us. This was impressed upon the Israelites after they left Egypt and were…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Christmas Day/Christmas Eve Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Christmas Day/Christmas Eve Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Christmas Day/Christmas Eve Isaiah 52.7–10 Hebrews 1.1–4 John 1.1–14 What difference would it make if the Christmas story were not true? If God had not come to be born, live and die as a human being? Today’s readings shout out that the Christmas story is the key to what the world…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 14 Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 14 Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 14 Genesis 15.1–6 Hebrews 11.1–3, 8–16 Luke 12.32–40 Faith is sometimes presented as necessarily divorced from evidence. If you can prove something, then you don’t need to have faith to believe it. But that doesn’t seem to be quite what our readings today are saying. They …
Isaiah for everyone - An Invitation to Imagination and Hope