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With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:111-112
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:111-112
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 119:111-112 There’s a joyless religion that should be avoided like the plague. There’s a certain personality that obsesses with detail; it becomes preoccupied with rules and ritual; it prefers the letter of the law to the spirit of the law. Jesus clashed with this sort of p…
A Bit Like Jesus - Compassion and assisted suicide
A Bit Like Jesus - Compassion and assisted suicide
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 3 Compassion Compassion and assisted suicide If compassion really is crucial and central should we not legalize assisted suicide in Britain? As I write, this question is being frequently asked in newspapers, magazines and on television. For some years Dignity in Dying (in th…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 73:1, 20, 25
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 73:1, 20, 25
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 73:1, 20, 25 The fact that this psalm continues to agonize over the success of the ungodly reflects how we ourselves struggle continuously to square the problem of evil with our faith in a loving God. ‘Then thought I to understand this: but it was too hard for me’ (v. 15). …
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Introduction
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
INTRODUCTION I worked for some years as a member of a team of nine. Every month we used to meet for the best part of a day and slog our way through all kinds of issues – big questions of policy, sensitive details about individual people, routine (but important) matters of adminis…
friends, FOES and families - Good gifts: the Lord's Prayer
friends, FOES and families - Good gifts: the Lord's Prayer
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
God gifts: the Lord’s Prayer Luke 11.1-13 Our Father, give us today our daily bread and all the other wonders you have in store for us. Luke 11 starts where we all should – ‘One day, Jesus was praying’. The disciples are at a distance, observing him discreetly. Is this in simple …
Prayer: Thank you, loving God
Prayer: Thank you, loving God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Thank you, loving God Thank you, loving God, for all those who have walked with us on the way of faith and who have encouraged and strengthened us in the work we do together. Some of those people have made a real and lasting impact on our lives. Others have only been with…
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 Psalm 50 Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Luke 12:32-40 “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 1:1). Faith is precious because it enables us to hope and trust in God even when – to …
Dynamic law can see, through truth and grace
Dynamic law can see, through truth and grace
by Andrew Pratt
Dynamic law can see, through truth and grace, a child of God in every human face, a law that searches every human heart, yet sees the way of loving as an art. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: CHILTON FOLIAT Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 4/2/2014 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, w…
Heaven's gate reveals the pathway
Heaven's gate reveals the pathway
by Andrew Pratt
Heaven's gate reveals the pathway to discern God's love and grace; here in stars we trace the glory more resplendent in God's face. Sun and moon resolve that glory so the human eye can bear such inflaming, searing radiance, bringing warmth, distilling care. Verses 3-4 follow Tune…
Hymn: God we need to know your mercy
Hymn: God we need to know your mercy
by Andrew Pratt
God we need to know your mercy, feel your grace around our lives, sense the presence of your spirit, loving kindness that survives. Faults that haunt us from our history are eroded by your grace; through your mercy life is lifted to a brighter finer place. Verse 3 follows Tune: S…
Exodus and Leviticus - Be Holy as I am Holy
Exodus and Leviticus - Be Holy as I am Holy
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Be Holy as I am Holy LEVITICUS : 19: 1- 18 Today’s newspaper reports on the release from a detention center in Iraq of a twenty-seven-year-old man, after eighteen months there. He was given a letter to say that his case had been concluded and the occupation authorities had decide…
Job for Everyone - Where Could I Go But to the Lord?
Job for Everyone - Where Could I Go But to the Lord?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Where Could I Go But to the Lord? Job 5: 1-27 The story goes that sometime in the 1930s a Mississippi music teacher and Baptist deacon named James Coats was at the bedside of one of his neighbors, whose name was Joe Keyes. Joe was dying, and James asked him if he knew where he wo…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year C