Search Results
A Bit Like Jesus - The parable of the prodigal, his brother and their compassionate Father
A Bit Like Jesus - The parable of the prodigal, his brother and their compassionate Father
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 3 Compassion Healing and compassion Then Jesus said, ‘There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, “Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.” So he divided his property between them. A few days later the younger son gathe…
GOD's rich Pattern - Go forth and tell
GOD's rich Pattern - Go forth and tell
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
Go forth and tell Seven years of study and preaching commitment were now to culminate in a service commissioning me as a fully accredited Methodist local preacher. What a moment. A day I had longed for. I can remember the beautiful summer’s evening the day before, warm yet cool. …
Eggs and Ashes Book - A Passover Meal for Thirteen
Eggs and Ashes Book - A Passover Meal for Thirteen
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Reflection - Meditation A Passover meal for thirteen How come it’s always me that gets to lay the table and never the boys? A Passover meal for thirteen, mum says, in our upstairs room; ten courses, best dishes, two jars of wine, and they might need a waitress. Job for you, Naomi…
Eggs and Ashes Book - Palm Sunday Evening
Eggs and Ashes Book - Palm Sunday Evening
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Prayer - Meditation - reflection Palm Sunday evening This time there will be no flight into Egypt. This donkey has too much to carry, too far. The shadows wait for me: around the table at Passover, among those in high places, in the condemned cell... By Josie Smith Taken from Egg…
Questions
Questions
by Marjorie Dobson
Meditation/poem: Questions Fourth Sunday in Lent John 9. 1-41 Why is it that when something good happens, everyone starts asking questions? Who did this? Why did he do it? Are you sure it happened? Surely it must be a deception? Are you telling the truth? Who can back up your sto…
Were You There? - Stations of the Cross Service
Were You There? - Stations of the Cross Service
by Christine Odell
Were you there…? A service of meditations based on the Stations of the Cross including an order of service, suggested hymns, Bible readings and 14 meditations. 2. Jesus bears his cross I watched his father, Joseph, As he fashioned the boy’s cradle. His cradle was made of the fine…
Reflections for Holy Week - Pieta
Reflections for Holy Week - Pieta
by Michaela Youngson
Pieta I was fourteen when I cradled you in my not much more than infant arms, wrapped you in linen cloth, fed you with my own life force. Rich men came and brought gifts fit for a king. Who knew that the swaddling cloth would herald a shroud, the myrrh would point to your embalmi…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B Psalm 139: 1-6, 13-18 John 1: 43-51 There are some very exciting words spoken by Philip in today’s gospel passage; “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote – Jesus of Nazareth, the so…
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18 Psalm 119:33-40 1st Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23 Matthew 5:38-48 It is a great pity when the Church is perceived as divided, especially in the face of common enemies such as secularism, persecution, poverty an…
friends, FOES and families - Am I my brother's keeper?