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Psalm 121 v1
Psalm 121 v1
by Doug Burke
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Isaac's story
Isaac's story
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue/drama/story : Isaac’s story Second Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 22: 1 – 14 My father was an old man when I was born. Very old. My mother was old too. I didn’t have many friends of my own age and, when I did, it was their grandparents who knew my mother and father beca…
Moses asks, 'Now Whats?'
Moses asks, 'Now Whats?'
by Marjorie Dobson
Moses asks, ‘Now what?’ I really have had it up to here with these people. They just have no idea how to behave. You’d think they’d be grateful to be free and out in the desert being guided by God to their Promised Land, but, oh no! That’s not their way. They’re either looking ba…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Third Sunday of Lent Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Third Sunday of Lent Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Third Sunday of Lent Exodus 20.1-17 1 Corinthians 1.18-25 John 2.13-22 Are Exodus and 1 Corinthians in direct conflict with each other? Do they give wholly irreconcilable pictures of the nature of God and our response to it? The God of the Ten Commandments is, surely, a God w…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday of Lent Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday of Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Third Sunday of Lent Exodus 20.1–17 1 Corinthians 1.18–25 John 2.13–22 Jewish jokes testify to the terror of the Ten Words from Sinai. Headache? Do what Moses did: take two tablets. Moses to the people: we’ve got them down from twenty to ten, but adultery is still in. Moses t…
Hymn: All the pageantry and glory
Hymn: All the pageantry and glory
by Andrew Pratt
All the pageantry and glory, as we come to worship God, let imagination follow in the steps the Psalmist trod. Sing hosanna, sing hosanna, sing hosanna to our God. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: RHUDDLAN; FENTON COURT Metre: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 15/2/2012 Stain…
Much brighter than a thousand suns
Much brighter than a thousand suns
by Andrew Pratt
Much brighter than a thousand suns, the source of life, eternal grace; light of the cosmos and this world now shining from a saviour's face. Upon the mountain’s towering height they saw transfiguration's light. This man, this Jesus, they had known, who called them once by Galilee…
Not remote nor terrifying
Not remote nor terrifying
by Andrew Pratt
Not remote nor terrifying, this is Jesus standing here; not a blazing fire or darkness, this is love, love drawing near. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: GOTT WILL’S MACHEN Metre: 8 7 8 7 Trochaic Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 31/7/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.staine…
Exodus and Leviticus - Seeing God
Exodus and Leviticus - Seeing God
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Seeing God EXODUS 24: 1- 18 A Christian song by Michael W. Smith called “Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord” declares, “I want to see You; to see You high and lifted up, shinin’ in the light of Your glory.” Another song, “I Want to Know You,” by Andy Park, several times repeats the …
Mark for Everyone - The Transfiguration
Mark for Everyone - The Transfiguration
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 9.2–13 The Transfiguration... ...Science teachers never tire, so I’m told, of the moment when a child first looks into a microscope. What up until then had seemed a boring little speck of dirt can suddenly become full of pattern, colour and interest. The ch…
Mark for Everyone - The Twelve Are Appointed
Mark for Everyone - The Twelve Are Appointed
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 3.7–19 The Twelve Are Appointed... ...When I was a boy, the football team I support, Newcastle United, won the FA Cup, the world’s oldest football trophy, three years out of five. Think what it was like in Newcastle when the players came back from the match…
Reflect on what young Isaac felt
Reflect on what young Isaac felt
by Andrew Pratt
Poem, song, hymn: Reflect on what young Isaac felt Second Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 22: 1 – 14 Reflect on what young Isaac felt, incomprehension, frozen fear; Moriah's mount, the steady climb, the place of death was drawing near. Reflect on what his father felt, this preciou…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Mountains
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Mountains
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Mountains For some strange reason, human beings connect mountains with God. In many ancient religions, worship took place on the ‘high places’. Even today, we talk of ‘mountain-top experiences’, despite having left behind the notion that mountains are closer to God’s supposed dwe…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The Sunday Next Before Lent Year A