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Prayer: Doorkeepers
Prayer: Doorkeepers
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Doorkeepers Great God, we come to praise and thank you in this place of worship that we love so dearly and to which we come to renew our special relationship with you. We care about this building and we are grateful for the support and friendship of the community here, of…
Poem: Durham cathedral
Poem: Durham cathedral
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Durham cathedral Twin towers stand high and proud over trees and river. Captured in paint and picture, the image unmistakeable. Draw closer. Climb steep streets, turn a corner to the Green. feel the weight and power of this building daring all-comers to challenge its author…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Good Friday Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Good Friday Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
HOLY WEEK: GOOD FRIDAY Matthew 27.33 –56 Overwhelmed with horror at what we are seeing, we join the crowds as they hurry along behind the soldiers with their prisoner. Forget the calm tableau of so many historic paintings of the scene, with Mary and John standing at a discreet di…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday Holy Week Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday Holy Week Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
HOLY WEEK: TUESDAY . Matthew 26.36 –56 Put this passage alongside the other time when Jesus took Peter, James and John away with him by themselves. In chapter 17, the four of them went up a mountain, and the disciples watched in amazement as Jesus was transfigured before them, sh…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 4: SATURDAY Matthew 23; focused on 23.29 –39 We stood in the autumn light beside the huge waterfall, mesmerized by the sheer volume of water pouring over and crashing down on the rocks beneath, unable to hear ourselves speak because of the rush and roar of the turbulent rive…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The House of David and the House of Saul
The Women's Bible Commentary - The House of David and the House of Saul
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The House of David and the House of Saul At the end of 1 Samuel, Saul and three of his sons are killed in battle. Second Samuel begins with David’s reaction to the deaths of Saul and his sons…
Hymn: Our God needs neither shrine nor temple
Hymn: Our God needs neither shrine nor temple
by Andrew Pratt
Our God needs neither shrine nor temple, no static place of rest or praise, but as we travel God goes with us in this and all our future days. Our God of cloud and fiery pillar, a God of mystery and might, could never be constrained, restricted, but runs as free as fire and light…
Hymn: This towering edifice of shining glass
Hymn: This towering edifice of shining glass
by Andrew Pratt
This towering edifice of shining glass which speaks of power, of status and of class. will one day fall, a glittering shower of shards, will flutter like the children's house of cards. These temples of our vanity and pride like expectations of the crucified will lie in dust and r…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 23rdSunday in Ordinary Time Year B Mark 7 v 24-37 There is a curiously touching detail in the story of the healing of the deaf and mute man in Mark’s gospel (7 v 31-37). The man had been deaf for many years (probably from birth since he could “hardly talk”) and ther…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Easter Day Year A