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One after another we wait on the warnings
One after another we wait on the warnings
by Andrew Pratt
One after another we wait on the warnings One after another we wait on the warnings, one after another the prophets cry out; our ears are unhearing we go on regardless ignoring the pleadings while feigning our doubt. The story is old as the faith that we follow, through each gene…
PENTECOST HYMN - The backwash of rumour unsettles the faithful,
PENTECOST HYMN - The backwash of rumour unsettles the faithful,
by Andrew Pratt
Pentecost hymn that moves from the disciples behind closed doors to a challenge to us to ....go out in the power of that spirit to live lives like Jesus, to cheer and restore the ones who are broken, derided, forsaken, [knowing that]...the future is sure. Tune: Streets of Laredo …
Perpetual fashion, flowery prayers
Perpetual fashion, flowery prayers
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Perpetual fashion, flowery prayers Proper 26 Year A Matthew 23:1-12 Perpetual fashion, flowery prayers, a show to make you blink, the Scribes and Pharisees sought praise, and that should make us think. Hypocrisy had been condemned, Christ saw another way, of humble service,…
Grumpy, graceless human beings
Grumpy, graceless human beings
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Grumpy, graceless human beings Proper 20 Year A Exodus 16: 2-15 Grumpy, graceless human beings angry at their lot; Moses once had been their idol, but they soon forgot. Slaves set free should be more grateful, but we’re just the same; satisfaction soon exhausted, ready to c…
Hymn: When we go with the flow where God’s spirit is leading
Hymn: When we go with the flow where God’s spirit is leading
by Andrew Pratt
We go with the flow where God’s spirit is leading, and sense all the good that God calls us to do, the way may be hard and our prayers become pleading, and yet God can lead us to things that are new. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: STREETS OF LAREDO Metre:12.11.12.11 Andrew Pratt (born…
The gospel is beginning
The gospel is beginning
by Andrew Pratt
A hymn about the beginning of Jesus ministry (Mark 1 – ‘this is the beginning of the gospel...) with allusion to the wedding at Cana in Galilee (John 2)), Jesus words in the Synagogue after reading from the scroll (Luke 4), and our continued commitment to living out the gospel. L…
A toast to God, I lift my cup
A toast to God, I lift my cup
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: A toast to God, I lift my cup ! Third Sunday of Easter Psalm 116: 1- 4; 12 – 19. A toast to God, I lift my cup! a God who senses, God who feels, who reached with care to rescue me when hell was hard upon my heels. When life was twisted all about, the world was spinning upsi…
As boats can carve a way through waves
As boats can carve a way through waves
by Andrew Pratt
Epiphany 3 year A Matthew 4: 12 – 23 Hymn; As boats can carve a way through waves As boats can carve a way through waves, so Jesus surged through lives. The challenge that he offered then, disrupts and yet revives... Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, …
Persisent in witness and certain in call
Persisent in witness and certain in call
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Persistent in witness and certain in call Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 2: 42 – 47 Persistent in witness and certain in call, big Peter is singing and telling them all: the way of God’s love had reached way beyond death, so now through the Spirit they sing with God’s …
Plan for the future by living today
Plan for the future by living today
by Andrew Pratt
Plan for the future by living today, hold fast to hope, it’s not going away, don’t be distracted by prophets of doom, hold to God’s grace, let the bud of love bloom. Glory and praise, praise to our God, praise to our God, praise to our God. All that we value and all we have known…
Quarrelsome people
Quarrelsome people
by Andrew Pratt
3rd Sunday in Lent Exodus 17: 1 – 7 Hymn: Quarrelsome people Quarrelsome people, out in the desert, thirsty for water, longing for home, ‘Why did you bring us’, they moan at Moses, ‘why make us hungry, why make us roam?’ They would have stoned him in their frustration... Andre…
Prophets challenge words and actions
Prophets challenge words and actions
by Andrew Pratt
Prophets challenge words and actions, things we do and things say, lift the veil and prompt the conscience, show our deeds the light of day. Verses 2-3 follow Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 19/1/2014 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please include any re…
The last word goes to God, and God
The last word goes to God, and God
by Andrew Pratt
The last word goes to God, and God is judge of all the earth, and yet in Christ there’s hope for all who share a human birth. This is no magic but a sign, for Christ who hung and died, was led to death because he loved, this could not be denied. Verses 3-5 follow Tune: MENDIP; LU…
The prophet saw a plumb line simply hanging