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Job's Story: Dramatic Reading/Monologue
Job's Story: Dramatic Reading/Monologue
by Andrew Pratt
THIS ITEM PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK OF JOB AND COULD BE NOTED ON EACH SUNDAY THROUGH OCTOBER ON WHICH THE BOOK OF JOB PROVIDES A KEY READING. Dramatic Reading/Monologue This item covers four weeks of the Lectionary readings from the Book of Job. It could be used over the f…
Once a prophet pictured Israel
Once a prophet pictured Israel
by Andrew Pratt
Once a prophet pictured Israel Once a prophet pictured Israel, like a vineyard, overgrown, no more fruitful, judged and broken, left to ruin, overthrown. In the tone hear disappointment in the prophet’s call and cry, seeing bloodshed wound his nation, justice now a living lie. Ve…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 Philemon 1-21 Luke 14:25-33 One does not think of the apostle Paul as being very personally involved with those he taught or of having much of a sense of humour, but both are demonstrated in his letter to Philemo…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-eigth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-eigth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 28thSunday in Ordinary Time Yr B Job 23: 1-9, 16-17 Psalm 22: 1-15 Hebrews 4: 12-16 Mark 10: 17-31 Almost every Christian will have had the experience of not being able to find God; nothing stirs in our hearts, our prayers bounce back unheard, life feels meaningless a…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 27thSunday in Ordinary Time Yr B Job 1: 1, 2: 1-10 Psalm 26 Hebrews 1: 1-4, 2: 5-12 Mark 10: 2-16 Let us not waste time wondering if Job ever existed, and - if so – when? The story of Job, whether history or fable, is in our Bible to teach us an important lesson: th…
LWPT Meditations - Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 9th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 1st Kings 18:20-21, 30-39 Psalm 96 Galatians 1:1-12 Luke 7:1-10 The story of the centurion’s servant is a well-known account of faith. The centurion must have been a remarkable man to be so concerned for his servant. At a time when …
Are we naked stark and child like
Are we naked stark and child like
by Andrew Pratt
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany Year A 1 Corinthians 3: 1 - 9 Hymn: Are we naked, stark and child-like Are we naked, stark and child-like, needing milk, while seeking meat, young disciples lacking knowledge, not yet weaned, not yet complete... Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stain…
Churning waves unsettled Peter
Churning waves unsettled Peter
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Churning waves unsettled Peter Proper 14 year A Matthew 14: 22 - 33 Churning waves unsettled Peter, startled, he was sinking fast, he'd been walking on the water, seemed this moment could not last. Jesus reached a hand to save him, lifted him above the swell. Fainting faith…
Hymn - So stunned by what she heard then saw
Hymn - So stunned by what she heard then saw
by Andrew Pratt
So stunned by what she heard then saw, a voice was calling out her name, and turning she was shocked by joy for Jesus walked into the frame. Not long before she’d watched him die, the victim of a murderous act, she saw him lose his grasp on life, a witness to this dying fact. Ver…
Hymn: Sometimes the Bible seems unreal
Hymn: Sometimes the Bible seems unreal
by Andrew Pratt
Sometimes the Bible seems unreal, its people like a saintly race, they speak with such integrity as those immersed in Godly grace. And how can we, within our time, aspire to such a perfect goal of innocence and purity, when needing love to make us whole? Verses 3-4 follow Tune: B…
Hymn: Upon this groaning, quaking earth
Hymn: Upon this groaning, quaking earth
by Andrew Pratt
Upon this groaning, quaking earth we find the evidence of grace, for here, our God, you nurtured love, brought faith and hope within this place. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: ABENDS Metre: LM Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 5/5/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.c…
PENTECOST HYMN - The backwash of rumour unsettles the faithful,
PENTECOST HYMN - The backwash of rumour unsettles the faithful,
by Andrew Pratt
Pentecost hymn that moves from the disciples behind closed doors to a challenge to us to ....go out in the power of that spirit to live lives like Jesus, to cheer and restore the ones who are broken, derided, forsaken, [knowing that]...the future is sure. Tune: Streets of Laredo …
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Don't Make the Same Mistake Again!
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Don't Make the Same Mistake Again!
by SPCK - N T Wright
Don’t Make the Same the Mistake Again! 1 Corinthians 10.6-13 We got on a bus in a strange city the other day, and to our horror it started to go in quite the wrong direction. Since we don’t speak much of the language it was difficult to ask other passengers, still less the driver…
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: The Great Crowd
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: The Great Crowd
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith and the Future: The Great Crowd Hebrews 11.32-40 It is said that on one occasion the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila confronted God about her own suffering, and received the response: ‘This is how I deal with my friends.’ ‘Well,’ she replied sharply, ‘in th…
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: Moses and the Exodus
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: Moses and the Exodus
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith and the Future: Moses and the Exodus Hebrews 11.23-32 ‘The young man came from a wealthy family. His father was a well-respected figure in the community. Everyone expected the son to follow him in his profession and, like him, attain wealth and noble standing. But the young…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - False Teachers
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - False Teachers
by SPCK - N T Wright
False Teachers Judah 5-16 One of the great examples of sheer, multiple, many-sided wickedness in recent history is of course the Nazi regime, which, under Adolf Hitler, produced six years of bitter and costly war and the Jewish Holocaust at the same time. All of this, like a mass…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - False Prophets
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - False Prophets
by SPCK - N T Wright
False Prophets 2 Peter 2.1-10a ‘I told you it was easy to get lost.’ Our host stood on the doorstep with a wry smile on his face. We had assumed we more or less knew the way. We have a good sense of direction. We had even been there before; surely we would remember the route once…
Luke for Everyone - Gabriel Visits Zechariah