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Prayer: Waiting in the dark
Prayer: Waiting in the dark
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Waiting in the dark Waiting in the dark for a dreaded dawn, when news may be of death and destruction; how we long to defer the light. Waiting in the dark for an anxious day when difficult decisions must be made that may change life forever; how we long to discern the lig…
Monologue: Hannah’s neighbour
Monologue: Hannah’s neighbour
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: Hannah’s neighbour (We often look at Bible stories through the eyes of the people involved, but what did Hannah’s neighbour think about the things that were happening?) I see the neighbours have gone off to Shiloh to make their sacrifice again. Every year, they go! Nev…
Reflection: One lost boy
Reflection: One lost boy
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: One lost boy It’s not that unusual for a twelve-year-old boy to stray away from his parents for a while. That’s just about the age when it’s most likely to happen. Twelve is one of those difficult stages in life when childhood is considered to be past, but teenage is …
Year ending
Year ending
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Year ending As the year draws to a close and we take stock of what has happened and imagine what the future may hold, let us pray for our church and our relationships and our work, as we prepare to renew our commitment to God in the year that lies ahead. God of our past a…
Revelation for Everyone - Reaping the Harvest
Revelation for Everyone - Reaping the Harvest
by SPCK - N T Wright
Reaping the Harvest Revelation 14.14-20 We watched, last summer, as the reapers went to and fro across the fields. Gradually the landscape changed from golden to brown, with the rich grain being replaced by the earth that would then wait for the next sowing. I was put to shame, o…
Imagining the Lectionary: Bear fruits worthy of repentance (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Bear fruits worthy of repentance (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Bear fruits worthy of repentance (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “Bear fruits worthy of repentance ” Bear fruits worthy of repentance. (Luke 3:8) Winter strips everything back and we are left to focus on what really matters. The hedgerows are d…
Imagining the Lectionary: A very private conversion and a very public statement (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: A very private conversion and a very public statement (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: A very private conversion and a very public statement (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “House with solar panels ” “I’m baptizing you here in the river. The main character in this drama, to whom I’m a mere stagehand, will ignite the kingdom life,…
Imagining the Lectionary: The crowds came out (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: The crowds came out (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: The crowds came out (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “The crowds came out ” How are we to picture the crowds of people who left their homes and made their way out to the Jordan to be baptised by John the Baptist? One striking piece that I saw in…
Christmas Child
Christmas Child
by Andrew Gadd
Christmas poem, a tongue-in-cheek comparison of the sparseness of the stable with the ornate jamboree that Christmas has become. Christmas Child So the stable was dirty, draughty and bare The manger was rickety, half-filled with straw The oil lamp was feeble and gave out no warmt…
Christ Made Manifest (A Hymn for the Epiphany Season)
Christ Made Manifest (A Hymn for the Epiphany Season)
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
CHRIST MADE MANIFEST (A HYMN FOR THE EPIPHANY SEASON) In the eastern sky a star, seen by trav’lers from afar, guides their journey through the night to the Christ, the world’s true light. Through the stable’s open door glory never seen before brightly streams, that all may see Je…
The crowds came out
The crowds came out
by David Perry
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Winter berries in hedgerow
Winter berries in hedgerow
by David Perry
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Do it again, Lord, do it again!
Do it again, Lord, do it again!
by Reg Ellis
DO IT AGAIN, LORD, DO IT AGAIN! (From words written by Max Lucado after the terrorist attack of 11thSeptember 2001) Dear Lord, as the innocent are interred, Our innocence is interred as well. The belief in our safety is shattered, We’re not unlike the rest of the World. We rememb…
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