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Barren cross
Barren cross
by Joy Sykes
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…
A Bit Like Jesus - Stories We Value
A Bit Like Jesus - Stories We Value
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Understanding Stories Forty years ago our family spent a year in Papua New Guinea living in a remote area without roads. I was teaching in the theological college and Jenny was working in the local hospital. Our son was a toddler and our daughter just a ba…
Poem: Signs of the times
Poem: Signs of the times
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Signs of the times Couldn’t they see the signs? Why didn’t they understand the disruption that Jesus had brought, would bring? This good news was bound to set the world on fire; bound to cause division amongst families; bound to turn the world on its head. Continues... ©Mar…
Meditation - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C The Opportunity of a Lifetime Luke 4:21-30 Isn’t this Joseph’s son? (Well, technically no, and maybe that’s the whole problem) Certainly this is Jesus, known as the son of Joseph. They all spoke so well of him, Amazed at the graciou…
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Let the Son shine in John 1: (1-9) 10-18 They say that my eyes are the window to my soul, the lamp that lights up my whole body. If my eyes are good then my whole being will be full of light! Pure eyes will let the sunshine into my so…
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing stories and parables
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing stories and parables
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Healing stories and parables Can I make an assumption about you as a reader of this Lent Book? I may well be wrong, but I assume that you are slightly intrigued by what it means to be ‘a bit like Jesus’. I should explain...
friends, FOES and families - Maundy Thursday: I am innocent of this man's blood
friends, FOES and families - Maundy Thursday: I am innocent of this man's blood
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Maundy Thursday: I am innocent of this man’s blood Luke 22.66-23.25 An inch is the gap between right and wrong, between the cool of the house and the dazzling sun. One step only out into the glare the door slams quickly, you must leave there. Forced to choose either left or right…
friends, FOES and families - Good Friday: several excuses for not following Jesus to the cross
friends, FOES and families - Good Friday: several excuses for not following Jesus to the cross
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Good Friday: several excuses for not following Jesus to the cross I was too busy – it had been a horrendous week. By Friday I’m always exhausted. I had the shopping to do before everything shut for Sabbath. Everyone deserves a bit of time to themselves, don’t they? I did think ab…
A Bit Like Jesus - Values from stories
A Bit Like Jesus - Values from stories
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Values from stories Why did Jesus not give us a set of moral laws? I suspect that for many of us it would have been so much easier had he done so. Imagine for a moment that the Gospels were full of moral laws, dos and don’ts, like parts of Leviticus in the…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 109:21
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 109:21
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 109:21 A spiritual battle rages around us. It breaks through into the material world. It is impossible not to be caught up in it and, from time to time, to be wounded. Of course, many today dismiss this as medieval theology, but read the opening stanzas of this psalm and it…
Meditation - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C The great debate Luke 10: 25-37 He was an imposing man, a top expert on Jewish law, clearly very learned and very self assured, well-dressed with an air of confidence about him. Most people were in awe of Jesus, but not this man; he …
Prayer: The heavens declare your glory