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Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Tuesday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Tuesday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Tuesday Evening Prayer Blessed be God, holy and undivided Trinity, our hope, our refuge, and our advocate! God, our stronghold, our place of safety: you are our rock and our strength...
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Gwaihir and farsight the Eagles
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Gwaihir and farsight the Eagles
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Gwaihir and Farsight the Eagles Symbolism and meaning If Mark’s Jesus can be seen in C. S. Lewis’ Aslan the lion, perhaps there is something of John’s Jesus in another Narnian character: Farsight the Eagle can fly so high and see so keenly that he can survey all Narnia as he whee…
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 9 - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 9 - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 9 O Lord of light and vision, open our eyes to behold your presence, to perceive your love and to see your presence for us; that rejoicing in your presence and strengthened by your love we may do your will and become what you have called us to be; through Jesus Christ our …
Four Gospels, One Jesus - From four gospels back to one Jesus
Four Gospels, One Jesus - From four gospels back to one Jesus
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
From four gospels back to one Jesus This basic unity of story outline within the plurality of portraits brings us to the second set of questions regarding the relationship of the four images to the search for the historical Jesus: what continuity is there between Jesus himself an…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday of Christmas - Year C
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday of Christmas - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 1st Sun of Christmas Year C 1st Samuel 2 v 18-20, 26 Psalm 26 Colossians 3 v 12-17 Luke 2 v 41-52 When we celebrate the birth of our Messiah at Christmas, we speak of him as the saviour (Luke 2 v 11), the one who takes away our sins and makes us whole. Salvation is…
Still Caring - Dealing with the hassles
Still Caring - Dealing with the hassles
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
21 Dealing with the hassles For thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psalm 23.4b, av) Being on the outside is difficult, especially when your informant may not be 100 per cent reliable. This is something I trip over, and come home feeling, ‘I really did not d…
Still Caring - September songs
Still Caring - September songs
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
37 September sings Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. (Hebrews 12.1b) I’m watching the folk on the beach this sunny September afternoon. They’re different from the summer visitors. This crowd is made up of people at either end of the happy family spectrum: y…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 10 Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 10 Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 10 2 Samuel 6.1-5, 12b-19 Ephesians 1.3-14 Mark 6.14-29 Two kings, a thousand years apart, and both in trouble at home. David brings God’s ark into Jerusalem, and is so carried away with dancing and leaping before the Lord that his wife despises him, remembering no doubt t…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 31. The evolving carer
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 31. The evolving carer
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 31. The evolving carer Isaiah 58.11 Some professionals refer to the experience of caring as a journey – and it is; it is a journey with your loved one as their illness or disability progresses, and they need more or less care. But it is …
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 37. Unwelcome visitors
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 37. Unwelcome visitors
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 37. Unwelcome visitors Proverbs 3.24, 26a I worry. I wake in the middle of the night in a panic. All sorts of things rush into my barely awake brain, one after another, till there’s a flood of them and I can’t get back to sleep. Then I s…
Letters to London - 6 Bonhoeffer’s return to Germany and his letters to London
Letters to London - 6 Bonhoeffer’s return to Germany and his letters to London
by SPCK - Stephen J.Plant and Toni Burrowes-Cromwell
Bonhoeffer’s return to Germany and his letters to London Bonhoeffer returned to Germany on 15 April 1935, immediately following his Scottish tour. On 26 April he opened the seminary in Zingst, on the Baltic Sea coast (it would move to Finkenwalde in June)…
the historical character of Jesus - 2c The life of Jesus in Acts