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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…
Jesus Washes His Disciple's Feet
Jesus Washes His Disciple's Feet
by Dave Hopwood
It Started with a Kiss… Bible Ref: Matthew 26; Mark 14; Luke 22; John 13-18 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 linki…
The Last Supper
The Last Supper
by Dave Hopwood
It Started with a Kiss… Bible Ref: Matthew 26; Mark 14; Luke 22; John 13-18 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 linki…
The Two Criminals Crucified with Jesus
The Two Criminals Crucified with Jesus
by Dave Hopwood
Slaughter of the Innocent Bible Ref: Matthew 26 -27; Mark 14 -15; Luke 22-23; John 18-19 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 r…
Bible Study Based on John 13:1-17
Bible Study Based on John 13:1-17
by Michaela Youngson
Bible study/dramatic reflection It would work well in Holy week or one of the Lent Sundays. Bible Study John 13.1-17 Beverly Gaventa describes this passage as a ‘commentary on Jesus’ death’. This makes a certain kind of sense. The passage, as Pete Phillips said, marks a radical s…
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Instructions on Holy Living
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Instructions on Holy Living
by SPCK - N T Wright
Instructions on Holy Living Thessalonians 4.1-8 St Francis, famously, referred to his own body as ‘brother donkey’. It was a beloved part of himself, and yet it often seemed to have a mind of its own. It needed taming, bringing into obedience, as one would teach a large and heads…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Taking Root- and a Name!- in Antioch
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Taking Root- and a Name!- in Antioch
by SPCK - N T Wright
Taking Root - and a Name! - in Antioch Acts 1.19-30 The other day I had to go to Cambridge once more, just for a few hours. Looking for a particular shop, I walked up King’s Parade, and was reminded of someone once saying that if there’s anybody in the world you want to meet, you…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - What is the Body For?
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - What is the Body For?
by SPCK - N T Wright
What Is the Body For? 1 Corinthians 6.12-20 I once knew a student who never bothered to buy a screwdriver. He had a couple of knives that he used instead, one larger and one smaller; and most of the things he needed to screw or unscrew he could do quite well with the point of one…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Human Beings as Gardeners
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Human Beings as Gardeners
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Human Beings as Gardeners Genesis 2: 8-14 Where I grew up as a toddler in Birmingham, England, my father grew potatoes. Then, when I was at junior school we had a plum tree, and when I was at secondary school we had two apple trees. When I taught at seminary in Nottingham, I grew…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Epiphany - Year A Isaiah 49.1–7 1 Corinthians 1.1–9 John 1.29–42 To be called by God is a thing of joy and terror, in about equal measures. The Corinthians are largely experiencing the excitement, at present, but their walk of discipleship will certainly lead…
Exodus and Leviticus - The First Spiritual Gifting
Exodus and Leviticus - The First Spiritual Gifting
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The First Spiritual Gifting EXODUS 31: 1-18 An amazing experience of parenthood is your children’s ability to do things you cannot do. Whereas I can just about play three chords on the guitar but have to think through where to put my fingers at each chord change, our younger son …
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - The Lord Bless You and Keep You