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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Has God Changed?
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Has God Changed?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Has God Changed? Psalm 77 One of our students came to see me to ask me to meet with another student whose life seemed to be falling apart and who was talking about suicide. The woman had been married for twenty years; her first husband had been “the love of her life.” Then he bec…
Salt
Salt
by Paul Glass
A meditation on Matthew 5:13-20 Salt Salt – being salty. The problem is, dear friend, that when I think about myself – the words that I say, the things that I do – it is not the word ‘salty’ that comes into my mind. I worry, Lord, that my Christian life is just a little bit bland…
Open with God Book - Wedding
Open with God Book - Wedding
by Christine Odell
WEDDING Prayers for Various Occasions Reading 1 Corinthians 14.4-8a 13 Flowers and music, lovely clothes, smiling families, sumptuous food; God of joy and laughter these are some of the happy things that come to mind when we hear that there is to be a wedding...
A New Day Dawns
A New Day Dawns
by Andrew T Murphy
A hymn for Easter Sunday. This hymn expresses the magnitude of Christ's resurrection on Easter Day as not just "the day after the Sabbath... the first day of the week", but the dawn of a new age of God's saving activity, even the start of the 8th Day of creation...
The day the universe was started
The day the universe was started
by Andrew T Murphy
A hymn to celebrate the birth of a child. Ideal for baptism or dedication services. This hymn charts God's love for each individual through time and space, creation and redemption, combining contemporary cosmology and ancient theology, with a well known tune.
Prayer: Great God, your love
Prayer: Great God, your love
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Great God, your love Great God, your love is so vast that it stretches beyond the boundaries of our imagination. We look to the skies and cannot see the extremities of space, yet your faithfulness exceeds those limits. We explore the depths of the oceans, but your justice…
Imagining the Lectionary: Appearance and separation (Proper 27B, Ordinary 32B)
Imagining the Lectionary: Appearance and separation (Proper 27B, Ordinary 32B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Appearance and separation (Proper 27B/Ordinary 32B) Reflection accompanying images “Autumnal kaleidoscope” and “Autumn leaves fallen” We all fade like a leaf and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away (Isaiah 64:6) As he taught, he said, “Beware o…
Open with God Book - Death
Open with God Book - Death
by Christine Odell
DEATH Prayers for Various Occasions Reading 1 Corinthians 15.50-58 We feel sad today, listening God, because of the death of …. (name), our sister/brother. We know we will not see them again in this life and that they will be missed by their family and friends..
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…
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