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Prayer: After the denial
Prayer: After the denial
by Colin Smith
In reviewing the previous weeks events (holy Week) and the threat to himself, Peter realises that he still loves Jesus. He falls into remorse and begging forgiveness. Prayer: After Peter’s Denial. Matthew 26:69-75 leaves Peter weeping bitterly over his betrayal of Jesus. This is …
Poem - Worry (Going to the toilet)
Poem - Worry (Going to the toilet)
by Colin Smith
This comic poem was originally written for children, who are about to leave play school in order to go to “big” school. It deals with an anxiety that they often have. It was subsequently used in All age worship to introduce the points that: No person or matter is too small to be …
Hymn: When we go with the flow where God’s spirit is leading
Hymn: When we go with the flow where God’s spirit is leading
by Andrew Pratt
We go with the flow where God’s spirit is leading, and sense all the good that God calls us to do, the way may be hard and our prayers become pleading, and yet God can lead us to things that are new. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: STREETS OF LAREDO Metre:12.11.12.11 Andrew Pratt (born…
A toast to God, I lift my cup
A toast to God, I lift my cup
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: A toast to God, I lift my cup ! Third Sunday of Easter Psalm 116: 1- 4; 12 – 19. A toast to God, I lift my cup! a God who senses, God who feels, who reached with care to rescue me when hell was hard upon my heels. When life was twisted all about, the world was spinning upsi…
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 116 15/05/16
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 116 15/05/16
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Rape, Revenge, and Revolt: The Story of Tamar
The Women's Bible Commentary - Rape, Revenge, and Revolt: The Story of Tamar
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Rape, Revenge, and Revolt: The Story of Tamar The story of the rape of Tamar by her half-brother Amnon and the revenge taken against Amnon by Tamar’s full brother Absalom cannot be read apart from some of the details of the palace and family politics that the narrative takes for …
The Women's Bible Commentary - God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithful and Fruitful Wife
The Women's Bible Commentary - God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithful and Fruitful Wife
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithful and Fruitful Wife In the third and final section, chapters 12–14, the prophet takes up the marital metaphor of chapters 1–3 once again. In the first section of the book, the punishment of the wife sparked her repentance and return to he…
Mere Apologetics - 3b Apologetics and a Theological Vision of Reality
Mere Apologetics - 3b Apologetics and a Theological Vision of Reality
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Apologetics and a Theological Vision of Reality Apologetics is grounded in a deep appreciation of the intellectual capaciousness and spiritual richness of the Christian faith. The task of the apologist is not to make the Christian faith attractive or relevant to the world. Rather…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob The book of Malachi opens with the words “I have loved you.” However, this love is cast as a parent’s preference for one son at the expense of another: Jacob is loved, while Esau is an object of hatred…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Man’s First Speech, with Responses by the Woman and the Jerusalem Women
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Man’s First Speech, with Responses by the Woman and the Jerusalem Women
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Speaking about Love These opening verses, by disorienting the reader with a seemingly dizzying array of speakers, abrupt scene changes (king’s chambers, vineyards, pastureland, Pharaoh’s stables, leafy bower, wine house)…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 17 Hospitality
The Monastery Of The Heart - 17 Hospitality
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Hospitality “Once guests have been announced, meet them with all the courtesy of love.” It is possible, of course, to make community out of “our kind of people,” out of people who look like us and think like us and have the same backgrounds we do… Taken from The Monastery Of The …
The Monastery Of The Heart - 22 Spiritual Tools
The Monastery Of The Heart - 22 Spiritual Tools
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Spiritual Tools “These are the tools of the spiritual craft.” Benedictine spirituality is clear: Beware the spirituality, the Rule implies, that lacks balance, that lacks the fullness of the spiritual life, that revolves around mystique and mystery, around esoteric ritual or secr…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 25 Peace