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This is love, love un-extinguished
This is love, love un-extinguished
by Andrew Pratt
This is love, love un-extinguished, love out lasting time and place, love surviving crucifixion, sign of hope and source of grace. This was God who bled and died there, very God they scourged and hung, it was God the child of Mary, from whom human life was wrung. Verses 2-3 follo…
We wring our hands in hopelessness
We wring our hands in hopelessness
by Andrew Pratt
We wring our hands in hopelessness while Herod's spirit roams abroad, the innocent are slaughtered still as hatred draws a tighter cord. We lack audacity to face corruption in our very midst; humanity is drawn by greed and power has the final twist. God bring again your human…
The Things He Carried - 8. A Broken Heart
The Things He Carried - 8. A Broken Heart
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
THE THINGS HE CARRIED 8. A Broken Heart He carried a heart that was about to be broken. That was how he eventually died. He carried his heart, open and vulnerable, from Jordan to Jerusalem, from Gethsemane to Golgotha. And then it was broken: broken by the savagery of the death h…
The Things He Carried - 5. The Hopes of God
The Things He Carried - 5. The Hopes of God
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
HE THINGS HE CARRIED 5. The Hopes of God He carried the hopes of God. This is how he had come to see it – searching the scriptures, sucking the marrow of wisdom from the very bones of his faith. That God had spent everything to try and create community with his beloved; that is, …
The Things He Carried - 7. Our Sorrows
The Things He Carried - 7. Our Sorrows
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
THE THINGS HE CARRIED 7. Our Sorrows He carried our sorrows. Nothing was too small for him. All the fragments were gathered up. And nothing was too large or too heavy. He carried the tiny, casual disappointments, the lost hopes and shattered dreams that reverberate through a life…
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Thursday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Thursday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Thursday Evening Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you open your hands, and fill all things with plenteousness. We bless you, generous God: you show us how to give and to receive. Jesus our brother, you make your presence known among us in the breaking of the bread,.…
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Sunday Evening Prayer Blessed are you, O God: in Jesus, crucified and risen, you have shown us your face. We worship you, O Holy One, present to Moses in the burning bush, to Isaiah in the temple,...
the greatest prayer - Your Kingdom Come
the greatest prayer - Your Kingdom Come
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
4 Your Kingdom Come Thy kingdom come. Matthew 6:10, KJV Your kingdom come. Matthew 6:10, NRSV Hesiod was a Greek pessimist for whom the wineglass of history was half empty—and getting emptier. Around the start of the seventh century BCE his Works and Days proposed that humanity h…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Strength to bear the burdens
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Strength to bear the burdens
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Strength to bear the burdens Luke’s spirituality As well as a patient steady plodder, carrying heavy loads, the ox was a very religious symbol for Jews, being used for sacrifice, and its horns representing the power of God. If Luke is the evangelist who depicts Jesus as the beare…
The worst time of year, in the cold of the winter
The worst time of year, in the cold of the winter
by Andrew Pratt
The worst time of year, in the cold of the winter, no time to be travelling, setting abroad, yet here in this story the Magi are coming bringing the riches the world can afford. This frankincense speaks of the prayers of the people, while gold represents all the wealth of the ear…
The Things He Carried - 2. A Crown of Thorns
The Things He Carried - 2. A Crown of Thorns
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
THE THINGS HE CARRIED 2. A Crown of Thorns He carried a crown of thorns. The soldiers’ logic had a brutal simplicity. A cruel, schoolboy logic. He said he was a king, so dress him up as one. A purple robe. Some twisted thorn. A makeshift crown. Briers and acacia. The barbed wire …
The Things He Carried - 4. His Followers' Disappointments