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52 Reflections on Faith - The body of Christ: respecting difference
52 Reflections on Faith - The body of Christ: respecting difference
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
The body of Christ: respecting difference On a recent visit to the concert hall at Snape Maltings in Suffolk, I became particularly aware of the need to respect differences. The concert hall at Snape is widely known as the music centre founded by the composer Benjamin Britten (19…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to End the Day
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to End the Day
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to End the Day Psalm 133-134 When my wife and I got married fifty-one weeks ago, we discovered the Episcopal Prayer Book’s “Daily Devotions for Individuals and Families,” four one-page sets of psalms, Scripture readings, and prayers that you can use when you wake up, at lunch…
Poem/reflection: Still learning?
Poem/reflection: Still learning?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/reflection: Still learning? During his lifetime and throughout his ministry, Jesus met and spoke to and helped and healed people of different nationalities, beliefs and practices. He greeted Samaritans, Greeks, Romans, rebels, Jews and all Gentiles and dealt with them withou…
Lift high the banner of these games
Lift high the banner of these games
by Andrew Pratt
Lift high the banner of these games in this Olympic year, that as we forge relationships, respect might cast out fear. Whatever name or creed we bear, we share a common birth, our skill and our ability is drawn from all the earth. Verses 2-3 follow Please use with full acknowledg…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 4 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 4 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
**Proper 4 Luke 7: 1-10** Gaze on the expression of amazement on Jesus’ face. He is overjoyed by this man’s witness of faith and his willingness to submit to the spiritual authority of a local itinerant teacher of a subjugated nation. Think how encouraged he must have been by the…
Trinity - Trinity In Lights
Trinity - Trinity In Lights
by Andy Lindley
Its the physicist in me - but look at your TV screens, the tri-coloured pixels make up the images you see. Working together to create an experience of the world. God, in three persons, in perfect harmony, allowing us to know him in fullness. When the three colours combine, yo…
A moment of wonder, amazement and grandeur
A moment of wonder, amazement and grandeur
by Andrew Pratt
A moment of wonder, amazement and grandeur, a time when God's glory shines clear through our lives, God's grace is beyond us, yet lives in each heartbeat, the source of creation from which peace derives. The eyes of our hearts are enlightened with splendour, inherited glory, the …
Come let us sing a melody
Come let us sing a melody
by Marjorie Dobson
Come let us sing a melody to praise the God of harmony and blend our voices, weak or strong, in thanks to God who gave us song. So, sing our praise out loud and clear in songs that all the world can hear. Come each musician use your art and every instrument take part. Let trumpet…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Four Gospels,... Four Portraits
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Four Gospels,... Four Portraits
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Four Gospels,… Four portraits Deep in the heart of the Kent countryside, perched on the side of a gentle hill sloping from the Downs to the flat plain of the Kentish Weald, is a large country house. Chartwell, as it is known, was the country home of Sir Winston Churchill from 192…
Occasions for Alleluia - Resting in God
Occasions for Alleluia - Resting in God
by SPCK - David Adam
Resting in God The conversation of the brethren should help and cheer us, but God’s voice speaks most often in silence. Keep some part of every day free from all noise and the voices of men, for human distraction and the craving for it hinder the Divine Peace...
Reflection: One body
Reflection: One body
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: One body Don’t know much about cars – not being a driver. Don’t know much about engines – not being a mechanic. Don’t know how to fill up a petrol tank - not owning a vehicle. Don’t know about tyre treads, or changing wheels – never having dealt with them. Only know a…
Much brighter than a thousand suns
Much brighter than a thousand suns
by Andrew Pratt
Much brighter than a thousand suns, the source of life, eternal grace; light of the cosmos and this world now shining from a saviour's face. Upon the mountain’s towering height they saw transfiguration's light. This man, this Jesus, they had known, who called them once by Galilee…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Return