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52 Reflections on Faith - The ten commandments: Doing what you like
52 Reflections on Faith - The ten commandments: Doing what you like
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
The ten commandments: Doing what you like The fourth-century North African bishop St Augustine once wrote, ‘Love and do what you will’, which is often rendered ‘Love God and do what you like.’ It sounds ideal— as if there were no moral requirements made of us as Christians…
Occasions for Alleluia - Resting in God
Occasions for Alleluia - Resting in God
by SPCK - David Adam
Resting in God The conversation of the brethren should help and cheer us, but God’s voice speaks most often in silence. Keep some part of every day free from all noise and the voices of men, for human distraction and the craving for it hinder the Divine Peace...
The Open Gate - Intercession
The Open Gate - Intercession
by SPCK - David Adam
Intercession Intercession is not so much what we want from God, as discovering what He wants to do and is already doing for us. It is not that we are seeking to change God’s mind, rather it is to open our minds and our lives to His action that is taking place. Too often in prayer…
Dealing with Failure
Dealing with Failure
by Roger Johnson
Evangelism Bulletin 267 – Dealing with Failure It was one of those days when my heart leapt with joy. I looked at the lectionary to see what reading was set for my Sunday service and it was one of my favourite passages. It was the encounter which Simon Peter and some of the other…
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus and Peter
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus and Peter
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus and Peter John 21.15-19 He had offered to help clear up after the dinner party. Indeed, he was eager to do so. We gave him a towel and he worked away with us, wiping pans and jugs. But he was still excited after the events of the day, and his mind wasn’t really on the job. …
Jesus Reinstates Peter
Jesus Reinstates Peter
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
Jesus, who are you?
Jesus, who are you?
by Corinne Akehurst
Jesus, who are you? Do you not know? Have you not heard? I am the one calling in the night. Open your ears, open your heart, make space for me to dwell. I am the faithful one, the one on whom you can depend. Give me your heart, give me your life and I will set you free. Free to l…
The Act of Prayer Year C - Baptism of Christ Year C
The Act of Prayer Year C - Baptism of Christ Year C
by BRF - John Birch
Baptism of Christ Year C Opening prayer We sometimes forget that the Jesus whose birth we celebrated at Christmas spent many years growing up in a small Jewish family. He would grow wiser and stronger, learning a trade, waiting for his moment, waiting for the pieces of the bigger…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 10 Direction and Counsel
The Monastery Of The Heart - 10 Direction and Counsel
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Direction and Counsel “Do everything with counsel and you will not be sorry afterward.” Benedictine spirituality sets out to build communities that, together, seek the universal God, that hold the wounded of the world in one heart, and that serve the world by being for it oases o…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 23 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 23 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 23 Amos 5.6-7, 10-15 Hebrews 4:12-16 Mark 10.17-31 Is it just me, or are the readings actually getting harder at this time of year? Not only more difficult to understand, but also more sombre? Certainly, today’s reading from Hebrews has taken large quantities of caffeine, …
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 39. Whose life is it anyway?
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 39. Whose life is it anyway?
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 39. Whose life is it anyway? Isaiah 41.13 Becoming a 24/7 at-home carer involves a lot of changes. Life gets to be pretty well unrecognizable, and as for us – our very identities may be changed. Once we may have been well-paid and valued…
Dispatches
Dispatches
by Chris Goan
A meditation to be set up as a series of 'messages' in a outside/wilderness location. (There are 10 in total) We have used it on forest trails, and on Wilderness Retreats on tiny Hebridean islands. The easiest way to set it up is to laminate each meditation, and attach it to a ga…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 19. Me and St Stephen
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 19. Me and St Stephen
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 19 Me and St Stephen John 8.10–11 It was one of those days. Exhaustion had set in early but there was still too much to do and only me to do it. Get help? Well, yes, of course that would be nice. In fact, someone had offered . . . But wo…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 22ndSunday in Ordinary Time Year A Romans 12: 9-21 In our passage from Romans, this week, Paul is continuing his discourse on putting righteousness into practice within the Church and the wider world. He makes three further main points: Love Bear up under persecution…
Great Christian Thinkers - 45 St. Peter Damian
Great Christian Thinkers - 45 St. Peter Damian
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Peter Damian One of the most significant figures of the eleventh century, St. Peter Damian, was a monk, a lover of solitude, and at the same time a fearless man of the Church. He was also committed personally to the task of reform, initiated by the popes of the time… Taken fr…
Mark The People's Commentary - Insider and outsiders