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LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Jeremiah 31:27-34 Psalm 119:97-104 2nd Timothy 3:14-4:5 Luke 18:1-8 Christians are called to a lifetime of patience, devotion, faith and unrelenting prayer. In the parable of the persistent widow, Jesus’ message regarding prayer is t…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Advent - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Advent - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Third Sunday of Advent Yr A Isaiah 35:1-10 Psalm 146:5-10 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 John the Baptist had put his full faith in Jesus. He had foretold Jesus’ coming, heralded him as the Lamb of God, sent his own disciples to follow him. But John’s faith had not be…
The Pastoral Letters - The King's Royal Appearing
The Pastoral Letters - The King's Royal Appearing
by SPCK - N T Wright
The King’s Royal Appearing 1Timothy 6.11-16 As I write this, London is getting ready for another major royal event. It is the fiftieth anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and the crowds and the television cameras are taking up positions to celebrate the day with …
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Challenge of Faith
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Challenge of Faith
by SPCK - N T Wright
1 THE WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT THE CHALLENGE OF FAITH James 1: 2-8 I used to think the waves had come from far away. Standing by the sea and watching the grey-green monsters roll in, it was easy to imagine that this wave, and then this one, and then the one after that, had made the j…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Looking To Jesus
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Looking To Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
4 THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE LOOKING TO JESUS Hebrews 12: 1-3 I went to a school that prided itself on its outdoor pursuits. Set high in the Yorkshire Dales in north-west England, it celebrated its location in several ways, the annual climax being a ten-mile cross-country race over…
Poem/Meditation: Fruits of the Spirit
Poem/Meditation: Fruits of the Spirit
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Meditation: Fruits of the Spirit If people looking for the evidence of our faith turn to the church today, what do they see? Is there a danger that they will find indifference, when they need love: moaning and complaining, when they need joy: bickering and back-biting, when …
If we sing with angel voices
If we sing with angel voices
by Andrew Pratt
If we sing with angel voices, without love it sounds absurd; only clanging empty cymbals will be sounding, will be heard. Are we blessed with understanding, wearing a prophetic crown? Will our faith unsettle mountains? Without love we tumble down. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: BLAENWER…
Hymn: When sense is damaged, limiting perception
Hymn: When sense is damaged, limiting perception
by Andrew Pratt
When sense is damaged, limiting perception, God's love will not diminish or betray, for we are held in grace and loving kindness, in pain, through grief and hardship, come what may. The love of God defies our understanding, God reaches to the depths of our despair absorbing hate,…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 16 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 16 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 16 Luke 13: 10-17 Gaze on the woman, bent double from her youth. Slowly her shoulders curved. Left behind by sisters who married, she remained alone, ridiculed, and treated as an outcast. Children shouted ‘Hunchback!’ at her. She made friends with ants and caterpillars and…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Building A Christian Character
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Building A Christian Character
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF BUILDING A CHRISTIAN CHARACTER 2 Peter 1: 1-11 My grandson, aged one and a half, was taken the other day into a big toyshop. It was a riot of exciting things, all in bright colours. From floor to ceiling, from one end of the shop to the other, and…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The God of Peace