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The Monastery Of The Heart - 21 Humility
The Monastery Of The Heart - 21 Humility
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Humility “After ascending all these steps of humility, we will quickly arrive at the ‘perfect love’ of God which ‘casts out fear.’” In Benedictine spirituality, there is a twelve-runged ladder that leads to God… Taken from The Monastery Of The Heart by Joan Chittister
Psalms for Everyone - The Judge is on Your Side
Psalms for Everyone - The Judge is on Your Side
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Judge Is on Your Side Psalm 7 If you are an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn and are accused of some wrongdoing, you can hire an Orthodox private eye who wears a black frock coat and a fedora—though when he goes undercover, he confines himself to a skullcap and fringed prayer shawl t…
Times and Seasons - Prayer: Human instincts
Times and Seasons - Prayer: Human instincts
by Marjorie Dobson
Romans 12: 9-21 Prayer: Human instincts Vengeance is a natural reaction and most children have the instinct from an early age. We have to be taught to share, to forgive, to live in peace with one another and to resist our automatic reaction to get our own back. So we pray: When o…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 36:1, 10
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 36:1, 10
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 36:1, 10 In the chapel at Bishop’s Lodge where we live and work there’s a sculpture over the Lord’s Table of Jesus bent over the city weeping, ‘If only you knew the things that make for peace’ (see Luke 19.41– 42). For centuries the Church has built up the experience of com…
Hymn: We will give thanks for the light we've received
Hymn: We will give thanks for the light we've received
by Michael Docker
We will give thanks for the light we've received; For we have found Christ who said if we believed Then we would see greater than yet we have seen - The things of God's Kingdom and all that they mean. We are beginning to turn from the past; For we have seen Christ's life show dea…
Hymn: Help us, good God, to consider our actions
Hymn: Help us, good God, to consider our actions
by Andrew Pratt
Help us, good God, to consider our actions, let us take stock of the things that we say, building the pathway to peace between nations, building new friendships to face each new day. Rumour and falsehood, like fire through the stubble, stir up our reasons for hate or revenge. J…
Rhythms of remembering - Easter - Tuesday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Easter - Tuesday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
EASTER - Tuesday Morning Prayer Alleluia, blessed be God: you come to redeem us, alleluia. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation...
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Intercessions - Advent 3 - Year C
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Intercessions - Advent 3 - Year C
by SPCK - Ian Black
Intercessions - Advent 3 - Year C Rejoice in the Lord always Sing aloud to God. Let us rejoice and give you thanks, O Lord, for you challenge and inspire your people. Make your Church expectant with your promise . . . As we rejoice in you, let your gentleness be known. Let us rej…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - THOMAS: from DISBELIEF to FAITH
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - THOMAS: from DISBELIEF to FAITH
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
THOMAS: from DISBELIEF to FAITH Thomas is immortalized as ‘Doubting Thomas’, an unfortunate nickname which does not do him justice either in this story or earlier in John. He is first mentioned when Jesus is returning to Judaea to raise Lazarus—and Thomas says ‘let’s go and die w…
Coniston Water
Coniston Water
by Doug Burke
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Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Hard Sayings
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Hard Sayings
by BRF - Dick France
Hard Sayings These verses contain a collection of sayings, probably originally independent of each other, which are linked by ‘catch-words’: stumbling, fire, salt. They draw out some of the demands and the perils of discipleship, and warn against an easy, lax approach which refus…
Path of peace
Path of peace
by Doug Burke
River Rothay, Ambleside, Lake District TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) Insert as Picture in the normal way. If needed fill the s…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Before and After Julius Caesar
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Before and After Julius Caesar
by SPCK - N T Wright
2. The Reality of Empire (II) Before and After Julius Caesar Ancient Rome had had a succession of kings, the last being Tarquinus Superbus in the late sixth century BC. Legend named Rome’s first king, the founder of the city in 753 BC, as Romulus. Since, however, there is no cont…
Metal Thorns
Metal Thorns
by Joy Sykes
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