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Open with God Book - May - Christian Aid Week (week 20)
Open with God Book - May - Christian Aid Week (week 20)
by Christine Odell
May – Christian Aid Week (week 20) Calendar of Prayers Reading Psalm 146.5-9 Our God, we praise and thank you for the abundant love you pour out upon us: for giving us this world to provide for our needs; for giving us free will so that we can choose to express our humanity by lo…
Prayer: Thank you, loving God
Prayer: Thank you, loving God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Thank you, loving God Thank you, loving God, for all those who have walked with us on the way of faith and who have encouraged and strengthened us in the work we do together. Some of those people have made a real and lasting impact on our lives. Others have only been with…
The Pastoral Letters - Elders
The Pastoral Letters - Elders
by SPCK - N T Wright
Elders 1Timothy 5.17-25 I had an urgent message the other day from a friend. He is a priest, and was applying for a new job in a different country. The trouble is that he has family responsibilities, and after doing all the calculations he reckoned he simply couldn’t live on the …
John for Everyone part 2 - The True Vine
John for Everyone part 2 - The True Vine
by SPCK - N T Wright
The True Vine John 15.1-8 One of many areas in which I possess near-total incompetence is gardening. We have moved house so many times that I have never had the chance to develop an instinct for which plants do well where and in what kind of soil and light. Once or twice I have p…
The Pastoral Letters - Widows
The Pastoral Letters - Widows
by SPCK - N T Wright
Widows 1Timothy 5.9-16 I like the old joke about the two different types of people. You can divide the world into two: those who think there are two types of people and those who disagree. But there really are two types when it comes to establishing a new community. There are the…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Come Blow Your Horn
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Come Blow Your Horn
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Come Blow Your Horn JOSHUA 6: 1-21 In New Orleans over the weekend for a meeting (I have such a hard job) I talked with Tom Wright, author of The New Testament for Everyone series, and with staff from the publishers. I remarked that the most demanding aspect of this project is ha…
Isaiah for Everyone - Egypt My People
Isaiah for Everyone - Egypt My People
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Egypt My People Yesterday I had dinner with two people home from working in the Middle East, one in a Christian university to the north of Israel, the other in a seminary to the south. In both countries the Christian community is a minority in a tough context where increasing num…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 Psalm 79:1-9. 1st Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 16:1-13 God wants all people to be saved and to know the truth (1st Timothy 2:4). God alone has provided salvation “for all men”. He is the one God, and Jesus is “the one mediato…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Lent - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Lent - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 3rd Sun of Lent Year B Exodus 20: 1-17 Psalm 19 1st Corinthians 1: 18-25 John 2: 13-22 In Exodus 20, God gave the Israelites the Ten Commandments that were to form the basis of their Law. As present-day humans we don’t like laws much. One has only to observe how indi…
Hymn: Look: fantastic celebration
Hymn: Look: fantastic celebration
by Andrew Pratt
Look: fantastic celebration, thirty thousand gathered round, in the midst the ark is lifted, this would now be hallowed ground. Listen: tambourines are ringing, this would be the day of days. Songs and lyres and harps resounding form a framework for their praise. Verses 2-3 follo…
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 2 Thessalonians 3: 6-13 I wonder how many churches will include the reading from 2nd Thessalonians in today’s service? It is the epistle for the day, but to read these words, or at least to read them without further comment, would b…
Like a mother calms a baby
Like a mother calms a baby
by Andrew Pratt
Like a mother calms a baby, gently held within her arms, God will hold his chosen people, keep them safe from life's alarms. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: ALL FOR JESUS Metre: 8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 23/6/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Pl…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Snakes, and Progress and Another Attitude to War
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Snakes, and Progress and Another Attitude to War
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Snakes and Progress and Another Attitude to War NUMBERS 21: 4- 35 Yesterday in church I was aware, as I sometimes am, that many people make the sign of the cross at certain points in the service. I was never taught to do that, and I would feel self-conscious about trying to do it…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Spiritual or Merely Human