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Am I in debt?
Am I in debt?
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation: Am I in debt? Proper 18 Year A Romans 13: 8 – 14 In the meditation that follows there are lots of things for which I am thankful. You can insert your own or even, perhaps, adapt it for a congregation or group of people. Am I in debt? Surely! In debt for the love you h…
Before our hopes were up
Before our hopes were up
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation: Before our hopes were up, Before our hopes were up, Christ knew us. Down in the dumps, he’s with us. What a God of glory calls us, how extravagant his mercy, how wonderful his love, how comprehensive his power. All things are headed up in this God: our brother, sister…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Speak
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Speak
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
We often forget that who we are speaks to others all the time, whether we open our mouths or not. From time to time our being may be silent and still, yet it emanates. It speaks without words. For some this awareness leads to self-consciousness. They feel too exposed, too vulnera…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Micah 6:1-8 Psalm 15 1st Corinthians 1:18-31 Matthew 5:1-12 If we read God’s law in the Pentateuch it looks long and complex, but in Micah it is summed up in a few words. All that God requires of his people is that they “act justl…
Meditation on pentecost being on fire for God
Meditation on pentecost being on fire for God
by Tim Marshall
A guided meditation based on the pentecost passage. This item will download as 03110605386116.doc Extract: Read this slowly with breaks between each line to give people time to reflect on what your saying. Close your eyes. Imagine that you're in a room with your friends. What fur…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Pentecost Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Pentecost Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Day of Pentecost- Year A Meditation on John 7: 37-39 Gaze on a river in all its varied stages. At first it is a silent trickle, welling up from a spring, always replenished yet forever hidden. Then the quiet country stream brings delight to children who picnic by its bank and pad…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 8 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 8 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 8 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 10: 40-42 Gaze on an old-fashioned prize-giving ceremony at the local school. First there are the prizes for best in French, or maths, or music. Then awards for the fastest runner or the highest jumper. Form prizes follow for the most helpf…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 16 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 16 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 16 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 16: 13-20 Gaze on a stained-glass window, the sort you find in a large church or maybe a cathedral. It is covered with an array of prophets, often dressed in heavy bourgeois robes and fur hats, looking like successful merchants or stern ac…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 17 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 17 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 17 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 16: 21-28 Gaze on Peter dragging Jesus off to a corner of the room where they are lodging, and Jesus and Peter standing with their backs to the rest of the group, as Peter berates him! Or perhaps this episode took place as they were walkin…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 22 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 22 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 22 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 21: 33-46 Gaze, not on this story, but another scene of attack, that will take place a little later in Matthew’s Gospel, when the violence predicted here against the son and heir finally takes place. Gaze as the ‘tenants’ approach him in G…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 20 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 20 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 20 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 20: 1-16 Gaze on that very British pastime, a queue. We queue for buses, we queue at the checkout, and we wait patiently in line to buy our ticket at the cinema. Remember the old-fashioned system in banks and post offices? The first to arr…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 19 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 19 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 19 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 18: 21-35 Gaze on the king in this story. It appears from the context that he’s an eastern potentate ruling over a world where slavery is common and torture rife. Perhaps he’s just entered a prolonged war, or the harvest has been poor, or …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 18 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 18 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 18 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 18: 15-20 Gaze on a heated discussion in Parliament, with opposing sides interrupting and jeering at each other and the Speaker calling out in vain ‘Order! Order!’ Watch a row between two children, brothers and sisters, running to Mum or D…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 21 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 21 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 21 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 21: 23-32 Gaze on this family scene, played out daily in thousands of households throughout the world. Supper’s over and the mother says to the oldest child, ‘Can you help me with the dishes?’ The child continues to scrape his plate for th…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 14 Year A