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Meditation: Immersive God
Meditation: Immersive God
by Jane Bingham
A short meditation on that God is about Immersive God Air that we breathe - God Water we drink - God Light that we see - God Love that we feel - God Ideas and thoughts we contemplate - God People we meet - God Choices we make - God Life that we live - God All we are and all that …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 March 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 March 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 9 MARCH 1930 For the first time in my life I know what I must do off in lonesome Lanao. I know why God left this aching void, for Himself to fill. Off on this mountain I must do three things: 1. I must pursue this voyage of discovery in quest of God’s will. I must bec…
Imagining the Lectionary: Facing the danger of freeing the self (Lent 1C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Facing the danger of freeing the self (Lent 1C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Facing the danger of freeing the self (Lent 1C) Reflection accompanying images: “Dangerous site” and “Piece of berlin wall change your life outside imperial war museum” Another Lent begins, and once more we have the precious opportunity mindfully to let…
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C) Reflection accompanying image “You have kept the good wine until now ” In St John's Gospel emptiness and fulfilment are the polar opposites which frame the first public disclosure of God's amazing intentions in the mini…
Imagining the Lectionary: Seasons of Leadership (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Seasons of Leadership (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Seasons of Leadership (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A) Reflection accompanying images: “The last rose of summer” and “The end of the last rose of summer” As the autumn weather deteriorates a solitary pink flower is the last remembrance of summer on this rose…
Revelation bible study guide - Letters to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira
Revelation bible study guide - Letters to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira
by SPCK - N T Wright
Letters to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira Revelation 2 I was involved some years ago in making a series of radio programs where people from quite different backgrounds came together for an hour to discuss complex and challenging topics of the day. Since this was being mad…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Advent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Advent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Third Sunday of Advent Year C Zephaniah 3: 14-20 Isaiah 12: 2-6 Philippians 4: 4-7 Luke 3: 7-18 It is often the case that in prophesying about the fall of Jerusalem, the exile in Babylon, and the restoration of the people of Israel to their homeland, the prophets fin…
Faith is the tight-rope of travelling people
Faith is the tight-rope of travelling people
by Andrew Pratt
Faith is the tight-rope of travelling people, taut between mountains of mercy and grace. Pilgrims remember the fears of their parents, trials and deliverance they had to face. Hope kept the balance when human experience met with the fire and the dangers of life, torture and stoni…
Beyond our context, out of time
Beyond our context, out of time
by Andrew Pratt
Beyond our context, out of time, can we believe the things we read? Are these imagined, false or fact, or signs that we should test and heed? A woman dies then finds new life, a metaphor or something real? The narrative has truth to tell in what we see and what we feel. Verses 3-…
Hymn: Held in the arms of God's love and compassion
Hymn: Held in the arms of God's love and compassion
by Andrew Pratt
Held in the arms of God's love and compassion, Jesus had kept them right up to the end, these his disciples, now named as Apostles, each of these strangers now counted as friend. Jesus had taught them by word and example, shared times of suffering, illness and grief. Spell-bound …
Monologue: Jesus and Herod
Monologue: Jesus and Herod
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue: Jesus and Herod I love me. No, don't get me wrong. I know you can see me! And I see myself in the mirror...each morning. Seeing me waking up is not a pretty sight! I'm not always proud of what I say or do. I have my regrets, oh yes. But...you knew there'd be a but, but…
O shepherd of Israel, you hold in your hand
O shepherd of Israel, you hold in your hand
by Andrew Pratt
O shepherd of Israel, you hold in your hand, the nations, the people, from each far flung land. Your grace is sufficient, to meet every need, you reach beyond nationhood, language and creed. You brought restoration when all once seemed lost, you poured out your life love, not cou…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 4 Casper
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 4 Casper
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Chapter 4 Casper After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.’ . . . When they saw that the star had s…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A