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Luke for Everyone - The Miraculous Catch of Fish
Luke for Everyone - The Miraculous Catch of Fish
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Miraculous Catch of Fish Luke 5.1-11 ‘When Christ calls a person,’ declared Dietrich Bonhoeffer, ‘he tells them to come and die.’ Bonhoeffer, of course, did exactly that, hanged by the Nazis for resistance to Hitler. But when Simon Peter first met Jesus, he didn’t realize thi…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Parable of the Sower
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Parable of the Sower
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Sower Matthew 13.1-9 We stood on the shore of the Sea of Galilee on a spring morning. The bus was up by the road, and we had walked down, several dozen of us, to where the lake was glistening in the sunshine. It was peaceful and still. The ground slopes up stee…
Job's Story: Dramatic Reading/Monologue
Job's Story: Dramatic Reading/Monologue
by Andrew Pratt
THIS ITEM PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK OF JOB AND COULD BE NOTED ON EACH SUNDAY THROUGH OCTOBER ON WHICH THE BOOK OF JOB PROVIDES A KEY READING. Dramatic Reading/Monologue This item covers four weeks of the Lectionary readings from the Book of Job. It could be used over the f…
Let's make the good news clear
Let's make the good news clear
by Andrew Pratt
Let's make the good news clear, and holding nothing back, proclaim God's love without reserve in thought and word and act. Then all will be unveiled, and when they know that grace, the people who have felt that word will know love face to face. Verses 3-4 follow Tune: FRANCONIA …
LWPT Meditations - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Amos 7:7-17 Psalm 82 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37 When the nation of Israel, God’s chosen people, began to slip into apostasy, it was divided into a northern kingdom – still called Israel – and a southern kingdom called Judah. Jud…
LWPT Meditations - Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 2nd Kings 5:1-14 Galatians 6:7-16 Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 When Paul wrote to the Galatians, it was with a message of God’s grace (2:16,21; 3:14,18 etc). He was almost desperate that his readers should not be misled into keeping the laws …
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 22ndSunday in Ordinary Time Year A Romans 12: 9-21 In our passage from Romans, this week, Paul is continuing his discourse on putting righteousness into practice within the Church and the wider world. He makes three further main points: Love Bear up under persecution…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 4th Sunday of Easter Year C Psalm 23 Revelation 7:9-17 John 10:22-30 We are so familiar with the story of Jesus as the Good Shepherd that there is a danger that we will miss the deeper implications. I remember a picture on the wall at my Sunday school, showing a blon…
Drama - Gracious giving
Drama - Gracious giving
by Colin Smith
Joan brings her Grandad an expensive but unsuitable 75th Birthday present. Cousin Mary's on the other hand is thoughtful, appropriate and hand made with love. This sketch has been used at All Age Worship, as a discussion starter which draws out the points that gifts need to be ap…
Reflections for Holy Week - Jesus Wept
Reflections for Holy Week - Jesus Wept
by Michaela Youngson
Jesus Wept Luke 19.28-48 The fresh green of Olivet soon gives way to the barren waste of Golgotha and somewhere between the two is the City. When he came in sight of the city, Jesus wept over it. The city in which dreams are born, wealth grows, mornings bring the luxurious cries …
Reflections for Holy Week - Jar and Nard
Reflections for Holy Week - Jar and Nard
by Michaela Youngson
Jar and Nard Matthew 26.6-13 A jar, fit to hold something precious, broken open to allow its contents to flow in scandalous, intimate, tactile generosity. The pot is royal purple and holy blue, with silver strands that hint at wealth. The colour of death, the colour of lent...
A Prayer for the Son of Man
A Prayer for the Son of Man
by Rev. Gary Homewood
A truly powerful prayer for use on Good Friday. This item will download as 13011006328731.doc Extract: Now is the hour. The sky is black with the anguish and the sin of the world, And the Son of Man, the Son of God, Hangs from a Cross, bleeding and dying for those who have nailed…
The Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan
by Dave Hopwood
Seeing and Believing Bible Ref: Luke 10-13; John 9 & 10 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking text as well as t…
The Good Shepherd
The Good Shepherd
by Dave Hopwood
Seeing and Believing Bible Ref: Luke 10-13; John 9 & 10 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking text as well as t…
The Parable of the Sower
The Parable of the Sower
by Dave Hopwood
A Matter of Life and Death Bible Ref: Matthew 8,9,& 11 -13; Mark 3&4; Luke 7&8 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the li…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - God's Folly
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - God's Folly
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Folly 1 Corinthians 1.18-25 On 15 March 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome, a mile or so away from where I am writing these words. His killers were a group of conservative Republicans who thought, with good reason, that Caesar was planning to make himself king of…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Herod Kills James