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Within this place where your people have worshipped
Within this place where your people have worshipped
by Andrew Pratt
Within this place where your people have worshipped, laid down their burdens and knelt down to pray, send love to comfort, renew and to bless us, as we are gathered in this present day. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: SPEAN Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 21/1/2014 Stainer & Bell Ltd,…
Sarah: A Mother's Lament
Sarah: A Mother's Lament
by Roger Price
This is one of a number of monologues that I have written for use in worship or some other reflective purpose. This one deals with the events of Genesis 22: 1-10 from the point of view of Sarah. Sarah: A Mother’s Lament Genesis 22: 1-10 He’s taken my son and gone away. Two days a…
Living Liturgies | Transition time resources for services, prayer and conversation with older people - A service of lament: ‘Anger and tears’ | Living Liturgies
Living Liturgies | Transition time resources for services, prayer and conversation with older people - A service of lament: ‘Anger and tears’ | Living Liturgies
by BRF - Caroline George
The following suggestions for a service of lament will need sensitive adaptation for your particular context and their use may depend upon the depth of your relationship with the group. ‘Lament’ is a word that has all but slipped from our vocabulary. It is an expression of sorrow…
Isaiah for everyone - Good News for People Who Are Broken and Flickering
Isaiah for everyone - Good News for People Who Are Broken and Flickering
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Good News for People Who Are Broken and Flickering In a movie we recently watched called Stuck between Stations, the protagonists, a man and a woman, tell each other stories that explicate something of who they are. The man is a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan who has watched one of …
Job for Everyone - Perish the Day I Was Born
Job for Everyone - Perish the Day I Was Born
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Perish the Day I was Born Job 3: 1-26 I never knew my Uncle Billy, my mother’s younger brother. The year I was born, he was killed in combat in the Second World War in North Africa. I did know my Uncle Ray, the husband of my mother’s older sister, who was also a combat soldier in…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Insults for Tyre
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Insults for Tyre
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Insults for Tyre The oracle concerning the city-state of Tyre on the northern Mediterranean coast is the final oracle concerning an individual nation, preceding four chapters that broaden concern to the nations in general…
embodying mark - 7 Following the King
embodying mark - 7 Following the King
by SPCK - meda a a stamper
7 Following the King Finally we come to the terrible death of the Son, betrayed, denied and deserted by his male followers; mocked by passers-by, who shake their heads and say ‘Aha’, and by the religious authorities, who have condemned him in a kangaroo court and handed him over …
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book II
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book II
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Book II (Psalms 42-72) Book II of the Psalter, like Book I, contains many lament psalms. But unlike Book I, not all of the psalms are attributed to David. The Korahites, who were, according to the book of Chronicles, temple singers during the reigns of David and Solomon, mix thei…
Eggs and Ashes Book - A Prayer on the Way to Jerusalem
Eggs and Ashes Book - A Prayer on the Way to Jerusalem
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
A prayer on the way to Jerusalem Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? Those who have clean hands and pure hearts. O Living God, age after age the children of dust make their way to holy places to seek you, yet you are closer than hands or feet. In…
Our lives have shown how change and chance
Our lives have shown how change and chance
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Our lives have shown how change and chance Second Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 13 Our lives have shown how change and chance can ebb and flow, bring joy or pain, and though we sometimes turn from you in need we cry and pray again. Sometimes if feels as though you've gone, f…
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 7 SAVOURING SACRED TEXT