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Great and gracious God
Great and gracious God
by Marjorie Dobson
Responsive prayer: Great and gracious God Proper 11 year A Romans 8:12-25 Great and gracious God, you promise us that when your Spirit lives in us we become your children, even the heirs to your kingdom. That is a wonderful promise and a blessing of hope for our future. But hope …
A strange kind of king
A strange kind of king
by Marjorie Dobson
A strange kind of king - poem Third Sunday after Pentecost Zechariah 9: 9-12 When that king comes riding on a donkey, will he be noticed among the finery and glitz and glamour of a ceremonial state occasion? When, through God’s peacemakers, arms and armoury are decommissioned…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 2 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 2 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 2 2 Kings 5.1–14 1 Corinthians 9.24–27 Mark 1.40–45 Mark’s Gospel is almost certainly the oldest of the four Gospels. Matthew and Luke seem to know it and depend upon it for some of their information, though they do also have independent sources of their own. It is possibl…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 3 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 3 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 3 Isaiah 43.18–25 2 Corinthians 1.18–22 Mark 2.1–12 Our capacity to respond wrongly to God is endless. All three of today’s readings focus primarily on the generosity of God, but they also all have as a backdrop the stubborn stupidity of our response. The miracle that Jes…
LWPT Meditations - Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 30thSunday in Ordinary Time Year B Job 42 v 1-6, 10-17 Psalm 34 v 1-8 Hebrews 7 v 23-28 Mark 10 v 46-52 If, like Job, we have patiently endured and have read our way through the entire book with its long complaints, discourses and arguments, we finally reach the reso…
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 17:22-31 Psalm 66:8-20 1st Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21 “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter 3:15). This was Peter’s admonition to the members of the e…
GOOD FRIDAY HYMN - Mid laughter and derision
GOOD FRIDAY HYMN - Mid laughter and derision
by Andrew Pratt
GOOD FRIDAY HYMN - Mid laughter and derision - This hymn pictures the scene around the death of Jesus and then challenges us. TUNE: THORNBURY Also available in PowerPoint Format - Click Here Extract: Mid laughter and derision, with mocking, mournful cry, see evil's quiet corrupti…
Here is hope in desolation
Here is hope in desolation
by Andrew Pratt
3rd Sunday in Lent Romans 5: 1 – 11 Hymn: Here is hope in desolation Here is hope in desolation: pain that speaks of sacrifice bringing deeper faith among us, mirrored God, embodied Christ. Here within this turmoil, testing, every sinew of God’s grace stretched in tension, peace …
How can we look, and not be moved
How can we look, and not be moved
by Andrew Pratt
1 How can we look, and not be moved by lives that end and eyes that plead, where parents cry while families part amid their last despairing need. 2 Once we were distanced from the ones that suffered while we stood to stare. God give the gift of empathy that we might offer more th…
Hymn: Here in the midst of greatest loss
Hymn: Here in the midst of greatest loss
by Andrew Pratt
Here in the midst of greatest loss, reflecting on what might have been, Naomi gave a kiss of peace, a kiss of comfort, yet release, but Ruth would learn what love could mean, yes she would learn what love could mean. The love these women would exchange was not ephemeral or weak, …
Hymn: Look: gnawed and bleached, dismembered bones
Hymn: Look: gnawed and bleached, dismembered bones
by Andrew Pratt
Look: gnawed and bleached, dismembered bones, a desert valley strewn with stones, a metaphor of hopelessness, for people worn with weariness. It took a poet's way with thought, an image that his mind had caught: imagine flesh and new found life, a counter to historic strife. Vers…
Impartial God, beyond your death