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Responsive Prayer: Prayer: When life is steeped in despair
Responsive Prayer: Prayer: When life is steeped in despair
by Marjorie Dobson
Psalm 30 Responsive Prayer: When life is steeped in despair When life is steeped in despair and there appears to be no hope: God, be our help When those around are hostile and aggressive and it seems that there is no defence against them: God, be our help When pain and sickness o…
Prayer: Disconcerting God
Prayer: Disconcerting God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Disconcerting God Disconcerting God, there are times when we do not understand what is happening to us, or where we should go next. We recognize that we often take a wrong turn on our path to you and sometimes wilfully go our own way. Continues... ©Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Reflection: Righteous anger
Poem/Reflection: Righteous anger
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Reflection: Righteous anger It’s easy to explode with indignant anger when it appears that someone else is in the wrong. How could they possibly do that? It’s totally evil. They ought to be locked up. It’s disgraceful! I wish I could get my hands on them. I’d soon show them …
Hymn: Passion can distort our judgment
Hymn: Passion can distort our judgment
by Andrew Pratt
Passion can distort our judgment, twisting love, distorting fate. Is this Adam's sin returning as endearments turn to hate? In the cold light of the morning, looking back on what we've done, even at the new day's dawning, feeling chill in morning sun. Verses 3-4 follows Tune: MER…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Lent - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Lent - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Fourth Sunday in Lent Year A 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Psalm 23 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9:1-41 I once resigned from a church because of its practice of shutting out God’s good daylight, especially the sunshine, and holding the services by the inferior light of fluorescent strip…
Monologue/Reflection: Peter reflects after Easter
Monologue/Reflection: Peter reflects after Easter
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue/Reflection: Peter reflects after Easter I suppose no one knew quite what to say. Days had passed. At the height of the festival Jesus had been tried and executed. For the crowds that was becoming a memory. Many folk were returning home. Clouds of dust swirled around the…
Psalms for Everyone - Praise and Thanksgiving as a Key to Prayer-II
Psalms for Everyone - Praise and Thanksgiving as a Key to Prayer-II
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Praise and Thanksgiving as a Key to Prayer-II Psalm 40 As usual we had a time of sharing praise and prayer concerns in church yesterday, and as usual I had more success getting people to share prayer concerns than to share reasons for thanksgiving. As far as I remember the only t…
Poem: Passion can distort our judgment
Poem: Passion can distort our judgment
by Andrew Pratt
Passion can distort our judgment, twisting love, distorting fate. Is this Adam's sin returning as endearments turn to hate? In the cold light of the morning, looking back on what we've done, even at the new day's dawning, feeling chill in morning sun. Continues... Also available …
Still Caring - Arm's length
Still Caring - Arm's length
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
9 Arm’s length For what do they care about the families they leave behind? .........(Job 21.21) My friend used to drive two hours each way to check on her widowed father, almost blind, pretty shaky but determined to continue living in his own home. The cost to her was not simply …
Still Caring - I want to go home
Still Caring - I want to go home
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
22 I want to go home My people will live in peaceful dwelling-places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. (Isaiah 32.18) Probably the hardest thing to deal with is when your loved one asks, ‘When can I go home?’ Or even worse, says, ‘I want to come home!’ My husband u…
Still Caring - How much is enough?
Still Caring - How much is enough?
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
18 How much is enough? I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete......................................................................... (2 John 1.12b) In the very early days, when your loved one is settling in to life in residential car…
Still Caring - False impressions
Still Caring - False impressions
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
31 False impressions We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. (Romans 15.1) We were having our usual weekly outing and stopped in a local shop. It was quite busy and among the customers were two women I knew. One greeted us cheerf…
Still Caring - Finding your peace
Still Caring - Finding your peace
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
15 Finding your peace If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. (Romans 12.18) Not all residents of care homes are loved ones. Old age, dementia and dependency do not suddenly transform people into loving dads mothers or husbands/wives. And inst…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 28 THE SETTING AND THE STORY
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 28 THE SETTING AND THE STORY
by SPCK - N T Wright
THE SETTING AND THE STORY We have no reason to think that Middle Eastern politics were any less complicated in the first century than in the twenty-first. On the contrary, there is every reason to suppose that there were just as many tensions, problems, anomalies and puzzles then…
glimpses of glory - Proper 6 - Year C
glimpses of glory - Proper 6 - Year C
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 6 Lord God of love, as you come to us and give yourself for us and to us, make us aware of your coming and your generosity, that we may rejoice in your presence and give our love to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, o…
THE AWESOME JOURNEY - 1 Where are you?
THE AWESOME JOURNEY - 1 Where are you?
by SPCK - David Adam
1 Where are you? THE AWESOME JOURNEY Life’s Pilgrimage Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of gl…
Moulin Rouge Bible Study part 5
Moulin Rouge Bible Study part 5
by Tim Marshall
A Bible Study which relies heavily on discussion rather than leading. Using the film 'Moulin Rouge' as a starting point and then looking at a variety of passages (which can be obtained from the web in a variety of different translations) There are questions to help start discussi…
Moulin Rouge Bible Study Part 2