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Prayers for Lent
Prayers for Lent
by John Birch
"It is customary, Lord to give something up during the season of Lent What would you have me do without? I who have so much........." A couple of prayers for use during the season of Lent. This item will download as 09110711121598.doc Extract: Forty days alone, a wilderness of th…
Lent Liturgy 1
Lent Liturgy 1
by John Birch
A liturgy for the first Sunday in Lent (or simply as part of the Lent season) with responsive prayer and a reading for up to 3 people. Love has its source in you Creator God Flows from you like an ocean into a world as unyielding as any shoreline cliff And like the ocean which ba…
Lent Liturgy 5
Lent Liturgy 5
by John Birch
A liturgy of prayer for the fifth Sunday in Lent (or throughout the Lent season), with responsive prayer and a reading for two or three readers. In our waking and arising be the first thought that enters our head In our eating and drinking be the first thought that enters our hea…
Lent Liturgy 4
Lent Liturgy 4
by John Birch
A liturgy of prayer for the fourth Sunday in Lent (or throughout the Lent season), with responsive prayer and a reading for two or three readers. Into the daily cycle of our lives when all seems well with us and with the world when our yoke is easy and the burden light You break …
Advent prayer
Advent prayer
by Marjorie Dobson
A prayer linking John the Baptist's message with the birth of Jesus. There is excitement in the air. This is the season of anticipation. For many, it is in the fairytale magic of Father Christmas. For us, it is because we are waiting to celebrate a birth. Continues... (First publ…
Failure–Reflection on John 1:29-42
Failure–Reflection on John 1:29-42
by Marjorie Dobson
Failure – Reflection on John 1:29-42 If John had decided not to take on the role of Baptist, there would have been no noisy wilderness prophet to gaze at in amazement and to challenge supposedly God-fearing folk about lifestyle and commitment. Who would have baptised Jesus then a…
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A This is the man Matthew 3: 13-17 I went to see John today, out by the Jordan; you should have been there, it was incredible; I’ve never experienced anything like it before! You know what John is like – larger than life to say the leas…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - What Do You Do When You're Desperate
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - What Do You Do When You're Desperate
by SPCK - John Goldingay
What Do You Do When You’re Desperate? 1 Samuel 28: 3- 29: 11 This coming Sunday is the nine-month anniversary since my wife died. I think about her a lot and dream about her, sometimes in her wheelchair as she was for years but sometimes fit and able to live a normal life, as she…
Singing the New Testament - The reign of God is near at hand
Singing the New Testament - The reign of God is near at hand
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
John the Baptizer reached back 700 years to the prophet Isaiah (40: 3) to pick up the prophetic call to repentance to prepare for Christ's coming. Setting this text to a tune long associated with Advent and Christmas provides a note of joy as we remember that Christ did come and …
Exodus and Leviticus - Ordination and Disaster