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Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Saturday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Saturday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Saturday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you renew us with your goodness and loving-kindness. New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove; Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought...
Body - Chapter 5 - The life giving Spirit (part 2)
Body - Chapter 5 - The life giving Spirit (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The life giving Spirit (part 2) The difference between psuch? and pneuma As we saw above, in the Old Testament there is a considerable overlap between nephesh and rua.: both brought life to the body; both came from God; both could be described, in differing ways, as being the lif…
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…
Imagining the Lectionary: The hiddenness of God's ceaseless Kingdom activity is a sight for sore eyes (Proper 6B)
Imagining the Lectionary: The hiddenness of God's ceaseless Kingdom activity is a sight for sore eyes (Proper 6B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: The hiddenness of God's ceaseless Kingdom activity is a sight for sore eyes (Proper 6B) Reflection accompanying image “Kingdom of God field with rows of newly emerged seedlings” He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed …
Hymns of John Schimminger - Now We Are Gathered
Hymns of John Schimminger - Now We Are Gathered
by John Schimminger
A new communion text set to my original arrangement of an old folk melody, Maa Bonny Lad. This tune from Northumberland, on the border between England and Scotland, was adapted by Swedish folk singer Olle Adolphson in 1967 with his own text Ge Mig En Dag ("Give Me One Day") also …
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A) Reflection accompanying images “Autumn leaves in abandoned steel sink” A pile of autumn leaves in the bottom of a kitchen sink is a profoundly incongruous and unex…
Rhythms of remembering - Lent - Saturday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Lent - Saturday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
LENT - Saturday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you watch with us in our darkness. My soul waits for you more than the night-watch for the morning, more than the night-watch for the morning. Psalm 130.5...
Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend
Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend
by Andrew Pratt
Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend based on Psalm 147 We cannot comprehend the height and depth, the brightness and beauty of the stars above our heads, so in awe we praise you O God. You rebuild broken cities and gather together the outcasts, bringing peace we dare not imag…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 31 Judaism Reconstructed
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 31 Judaism Reconstructed
by SPCK - N T Wright
Judaism Reconstructed (ad 70–135) The period after ad 70 was, obviously, of great significance for the future direction of Judaism. It has also often been regarded as of great significance for the development of early Christianity…
Letters to London - 14 Kingdom citizenship and earthly responsibility