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Open with God Book - July - NCH (week 29)
Open with God Book - July - NCH (week 29)
by Christine Odell
July – NCH Action for Children (week 29) Calendar of Prayers Reading Matthew 18.2-7 This prayer could be adapted for other children’s charities. Have a small display of pictures, information and/or small items associated with childhood. Living God, we thank you for the mysterious…
POPPIES AND SNOWDROPS - Prayer: God will be with you
POPPIES AND SNOWDROPS - Prayer: God will be with you
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God will be with you God will be with you in the desolation of your days. God will be with you in the darkest of your nights. God will be with you in hopelessness and despair. God will be with you in fear and anger. God will be with you when all reason has gone. God will …
Imagining the Lectionary: Trinity - the art of visualising divine presence and purpose
Imagining the Lectionary: Trinity - the art of visualising divine presence and purpose
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Trinity – the art of visualising divine presence and purpose. Reflection accompanying images “revealing the presence”, “heart shaped shutters on tower of parish church” and “artist and canvas”. "The amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, the e…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - God's New Commandment
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - God's New Commandment
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s New Commandment 1 John 2. 3-14 Sometimes when we sing hymns, the hymns tell a story. They move from one idea to another, in a linear fashion. There is something satisfying about this. We all like stories, and even when the ‘story’ is a sequence of ideas, it makes sense to u…
Once born as the Christ-child, and living among us
Once born as the Christ-child, and living among us
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Once born as the Christ-child, and living among us Third Sunday of Easter 1 Peter 17 - 23 Once born as the Christ-child, and living among us, at one with humanity, sharing our pain. betrayed in self-giving, poured out for our living, in thought word and action, God making l…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Don't Be Deceived
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Don't Be Deceived
by SPCK - N T Wright
Don’t Be Deceived 2 John 7-13 I was going to quote a Beatles song, but then I remembered that you have to pay a lot of money even to quote a single line. But the song is well enough known, declaring that the only thing one might need is love. It’s ironic, of course, that you have…
Exodus and Leviticus - How to Celebrate
Exodus and Leviticus - How to Celebrate
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Celebrate LEVITICUS 23: 1- 24:9 When my parents could afford it, two or three times as a teenager I was able to go to “camps,” as they would be called in the United States (I am glad to say there were no tents in sight; we slept in school dormitories). It was at one of the…
Zacc
Zacc
by Paul Glass
Zacchaeus shares his memories Okay - let’s get this over and done with right at the very beginning. I’m small - alright? Of limited stature, short. I get it. I’ve been that way since I was a child. ‘Your Zacchaeus, he’s a bit well…small isn’t he?’ That’s what mum’s friends would …
Open with God Book - Young People's Work
Open with God Book - Young People's Work
by Christine Odell
YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK Prayers for Various Occasions Reading Ecclesiastes 11.9-12.7 God of the old, middle-aged and young, you must laugh to see how generation after generation the young are envied their youth and advised to treasure it, while the ways of ‘young people today’ are fr…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 26 Epilogue
The Monastery Of The Heart - 26 Epilogue
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Epilogue As we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God’s commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love.” Benedictine spirituality is not a spiritual practice that waxes and wanes, comes and goes, as we grow and chan…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - GOD SO LOVED the WORLD
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - GOD SO LOVED the WORLD
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
GOD SO LOVED the WORLD THINGS As we saw before, this passage can be read either as the end of Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus, or as a separate comment by the evangelist. Who says it, is less important than what it says, for it is one of this gospel’s supreme passages, full of…
Drama/Dialogue: Make-over
Drama/Dialogue: Make-over
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama/Dialogue: Make-over A. I’ve had a make-over! B. Oh, yes! When? A. Yesterday evening. I feel like a new person. B. Well, you don’t look like a new person to me. You still need a haircut – and you could do with losing some weight. A. Aw, come on! You can’t expect that to happ…
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