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There is a season - Harvest Liturgy
There is a season - Harvest Liturgy
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
HARVEST LITURGY Unless a grain of wheat falls… As we gather, we bring our offerings of food to the altar, then go to our seats. When the service is ready to begin, the reader goes to the lectern. Reading Genesis 1.26 –31a Reader….. A reading from the book of Genesis. Then God sa…
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C) Reflection accompanying image “You have kept the good wine until now ” In St John's Gospel emptiness and fulfilment are the polar opposites which frame the first public disclosure of God's amazing intentions in the mini…
Prayer for Pentecost
Prayer for Pentecost
by Jane Bingham
A prayer which invites the Holy Spirit to act Prayer for Pentecost Spirit of God come quickly. Stir my heart and soul to action that I might know you Spirit of God come gently. Bring your peace that I might be assured Spirit of God come powerfully... Continues Jane Bingham
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - God Calls a Remnant
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - God Calls a Remnant
by SPCK - N T Wright
God Calls a Remnant ROMANS 9.25-29 The Beatles once recorded a song called ‘Nowhere Man’. It grew out of a casual, dismissive remark one of them had made about somebody they’d just met: ‘He’s a real “nowhere man”.’ It was meant as a scornful put-down, and if the person they were …
Mark for Everyone - Jesus Predicts His Death
Mark for Everyone - Jesus Predicts His Death
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 8.31—9.1 Jesus Predicts His Death... ...I watched from a window as the riot police got ready. They looked like sportsmen preparing for a match, putting on pads and helmets, gloves and special outer clothes. Only this wasn’t a game. It was real. They didn’t …
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Easter Day Year B Psalm 118: 1-2, 19-29 Ezekiel 37: 1-14 Mark 16: 1-8 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 God makes impossible things possible When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, they became trapped on the shores of the Red Sea, with Pharaoh’s army in hot pursuit.…
Hymn: Who's my mother, sister, brother
Hymn: Who's my mother, sister, brother
by Andrew Pratt
Who's my mother, sister, brother, when the odds are piled up high, when the allegations clatter, when the insults sing and fly? Will you stand in strength beside me, or will you deride, deny, calling me the prince of devils, will you hide behind a lie? Verses 2-3 follow Tune: BET…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 4 Casper
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 4 Casper
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Chapter 4 Casper After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.’ . . . When they saw that the star had s…
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - Trinity Sunday Year B Isaiah 6: 1-8 Psalm 29 Romans 8: 12-17 John 3: 1-17 "Your majesty, I can but bow; I lay my all before you now." Those words from song 18 in "Singing the Faith" epitomise our only possible response in the face of the awesome presence of Almighty …
John and Mary, the Mother of Jesus