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Open with God Book - March - Refugee Week (week 11)
Open with God Book - March - Refugee Week (week 11)
by Christine Odell
MARCH – Refugee Week (week 11) Matthew 25.31-46 Display suitable pictures and newspaper clippings. There will be a time of silence during this prayer, as we imagine what it is like to be a refugee. Shelter, food and drink,safety, community and care: these are things we need, our …
Come wake the dead and raise the roof
Come wake the dead and raise the roof
by Andrew Pratt
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany Year A Isaiah 49 8 - 16 Hymn: Come, wake the dead and raise the roof Come, wake the dead and raise the roof, we'll picnic in the hills, the day of God will come to pass, when fear no longer chills... Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stainer & Bell…
Graveyard angel
Graveyard angel
by Glen Scott Robson
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…
Once, like a mighty rushing wind
Once, like a mighty rushing wind
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Once, like a mighty rushing wind Acts 2: 1 – 21 Once, like a mighty rushing wind, the Holy Spirit came. From Pentecost, the world they knew could never be the same. The Christ that they had loved and known, the one who hung and died, was in their living, laughter, joy; and …
We gather in this holy space
We gather in this holy space
by Andrew Pratt
We gather in this holy space. We pray in penitence and awe. Your spirit moves within this place, we bow, as we have done before. Your law is written on each heart, your love will penetrate each soul, you bring through music, thought and art a covenant to make us whole. Verses 3-4…
friends, FOES and families - Holy Saturday: the empty room
friends, FOES and families - Holy Saturday: the empty room
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Holy Saturday: the empty room God Almighty and All Merciful, rescue us from despair. The room had been empty since Thursday night, when Jesus, desperate for air, had left to be with God on the open hillside. The door slammed shut behind them, with the thud of a hammer’s blow. T…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fifth Sunday of Lent Jeremiah 31.31–34 Hebrews 5.5–10 John 12.20–33 At last a nice easy covenant. At last, Jeremiah seems to be suggesting, God will give up trying to teach us things and just zap us, changing us so that it becomes natural to us to know God. We won’t need to b…
Hymn: God has broken walls of heartache
Hymn: God has broken walls of heartache
by Andrew Pratt
God has broken walls of heartache, entered disability, challenged concepts that estrange us in our vulnerability. Gone the curtain of the temple, gone the altar where priests stood, now we stand within the presence of the one we name as God. Verses 3-5 follow Tune: ALL FOR JESUS …
However bleak or desolate
However bleak or desolate
by Andrew Pratt
However bleak or desolate our lives may seem to be, a day of blessedness will come when we will be set free. As Jeremiah struck a deal, brought property in hope, he sensed a vision of a world beyond our human scope. Verses 3-5 follow Metre: 8 7 8 7 Tune: FINGAL Andrew Pratt (bo…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Palm Sunday The Liturgy of the Palms Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Palm Sunday The Liturgy of the Palms Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Palm Sunday The Liturgy of the Palms Luke 19.28-40 Gaze on that onlooker at the back, peering over the taller people at the front of the crowds. It could be you or me. Your heart is thumping, you are so exhilarated. For once, feel ready to come out of your safe corner and move to…
Your word is truth
Your word is truth
by John Birch
Prayers of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving ADORATION Your Word is truth for victims of injustice, light for all who cannot see, love where there is hatred, freedom for the oppressed. Continues... CONFESSION God of Grace forgive our ingratitude for the blessings we have r…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 6 Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 6 Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Lectionary reflections - Year A Ordinary Time Proper 6 Exodus 19.2–8a Romans 5.1–8 Matthew 9.35—10.8 Christians know that, through the work of God in Christ, made real to them by the Holy Spirit, the world is a different place. We are, to use Paul’s characteristic phrase, ‘justif…
Prayer: Weeping God