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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Teach Me
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Teach Me
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Teach Me Psalm 119: 49-72 I’m grading student papers, and one effect that has on me (alongside making me want to commit suicide) is to make me puzzle over what it is that enables people to learn. There are people who have read the Scriptures with fresh eyes, seen things they had …
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 24 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 24 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 24 Jeremiah 31.27–34 2 Timothy 3.14—4.5 Luke 18.1–8 The passages from 2 Timothy and Luke 18 both envisage God’s people hanging on, sustaining their energy and sense of direction, even though things seem to go from bad to worse. By contrast, Jeremiah 31 sees through the lon…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 12 Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 12 Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 12 Genesis 18.20–32 Colossians 2.6–15 Luke 11.1–13 This story from Genesis is often told as though it is about Abraham bargaining with God. Abraham, the generous and merciful, pleads with God, the bloodthirsty and violent, and gradually manages to calm God down and get him…
Prayer: Sometimes the things we
Prayer: Sometimes the things we
by Andrew Pratt
Prayer: Sometimes the things we Sometimes the things we face undermine our resolve and destroy our confidence. Problems tower above us and we see no way to overcome them. When these things happen, as they have, and probably will again, give us, O God, humility and simplicity. Con…
Prayer: Trust beyond imagination
Prayer: Trust beyond imagination
by Andrew Pratt
Prayer: Trust beyond imagination God, parent and guardian, stand by us in our weakness we pray, that when even our imagination can see no way through, a spark of faith is kept alive in our hearts; Kindle it, we pray. At those times when are tempted to challenge and condemn others…
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Thursday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Thursday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Thursday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you give in abundance. You spread a table before me in the presence of those who trouble me; you have anointed my head with oil, and my cup is running over...
Traces of Glory Year B - The Third Sunday of Advent - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - The Third Sunday of Advent - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
The Third Sunday of Advent Year B Isaiah 61.1-4, 8-11 Ps. 126 (or Magnificat) 1 Thessalonians 5.16-24 John 1. 6-8, 19-28 Come, Holy Spirit of God, come upon us, that you may send us out in your power. Fill us with your grace and goodness, that we may be able to bring the Good N…
Sometimes, O God, our weariness
Sometimes, O God, our weariness
by Andrew Pratt
Sometimes, O God, our weariness and pressure on our time can undermine our prayerfulness, our thoughts of the divine. We thirst and long to know your love, to hear your present voice, that in this void, this emptiness, we might, again rejoice. Verse 3 follows Tune: BELMONT Metre:…
Traces of Glory Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Traces of Glory The Fourth Sunday of Advent Year B 2 Samuel 7. 1-11,16: Magnificat or Ps. 89. 1-4, 19-26 (or 1-8): Romans 16. 25-27: Luke 1. 26-38 Lord, you are with us wherever we go: you are our God and the Rock of our salvation.You come to us each day and always. Lord, open ou…
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