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The Power of the Parable - Challenge Parables; Part 1
The Power of the Parable - Challenge Parables; Part 1
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
chapter 3 Challenge Parables: Part 1 Down from Jerusalem to Jericho The French intellectual André Gide lived from 1869 to 1951. His search for honesty and integrity— a search at once sexual and social, political and religious— led him first to revere and then speedily to revile R…
City Lights
City Lights
by Rose humphrey
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Poem: Turning back
Poem: Turning back
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Turning back If repentance comes too late to be able to say, ‘sorry,’ then the guilt lies heavy and forgiveness appears impossible. So when realisation points to the lesson that the wrong choice was made and acted upon, it would be wise to reverse the process, turn around a…
HYMN - God we lose our moral compass
HYMN - God we lose our moral compass
by Andrew Pratt
God, we lose our moral compass, stagger blindly, miss the mark, wander deep in self-deception, finding life is cold and stark; in our darkness, in our hunger, in the shadows bring your spark. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: MANNHEIM Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 12/2/2010 Stainer &…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Fourth Sunday of Lent Joshua 5.9–12 2 Corinthians 5.16–end Luke 15.1–3, 11b–end At Gilgal the Israelites, like the prodigal, exchanged the food of the wilderness for the food of home. In a dense little scene, explicable only in its wider context, the covenant signs come rushi…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fourth Sunday of Lent Joshua 5.9–12 2 Corinthians 5.16–21 Luke 15.1–3, 11b–32 Luke, the expert writer, puts the prodigal son as the third of a set of stories about losing and finding. All of the stories emphasize God’s joy at finding what had been lost, but the story of the p…
52 Reflections on Faith - Jesus the teacher: words and deeds
52 Reflections on Faith - Jesus the teacher: words and deeds
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Jesus the teacher: words and deeds We can probably all remember particular teachers we had at school. Some stick in the mind as ‘good teachers’, but we probably remember others because we didn’t like them, got on the wrong side of them or were hopeless at their subjects…
Echoing the Word - Prayers after Communion
Echoing the Word - Prayers after Communion
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
20 Prayers after Communion The Church gives thanks before sharing in the consecrated bread and wine. Indeed it is by giving thanks that the Church consecrates. So in a sense there is not much more to be said once Holy Communion has been shared, and it seems as if, in the early ce…
A Bit Like Jesus - The story of the Caring Samaritan
A Bit Like Jesus - The story of the Caring Samaritan
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 4 Care The story of the Caring Samaritan Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all you…
The Lord and His Prayer - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
The Lord and His Prayer - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
by SPCK - N T Wright
Forgive Us Our Trespasses CHAPTER FOUR One of the most vivid images in the whole New Testament is that of a man running. These days, people of all sorts run to keep fit. Even presidents and politicians have been known to don jogging suits, and even to be photographed taking exerc…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 20 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 20 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 20 Luke 16: 1-13 Gaze .on an old B-movie of cowboys and Indians. The Wells Fargo stagecoach gallops over the barren Wild West of America. It has been ambushed and the driver has been shot by the bandits; he is slumped over and has dropped the reins. He can steer the coach …
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fourth Sunday of Lent Luke 15.1-3, 11b-32 Gaze on the father pacing his lemon groves each evening, climbing to the highest point of his land to scan the horizon. And at last he sees a dot, growing ever more distinct, ever more familiar. Gaze on the elder son, the outsider loo…
When all is lost, there seems no turning back
When all is lost, there seems no turning back
by Andrew Pratt
When all is lost, there seems no turning back; when friends are gone, while gain has turned to lack; when life has left us in a crumpled heap, we slip and slide, we agonise and weep. Sometimes our lives are spun, flipped upside down, the royal are poor, the beggar wears a crown. …
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 106 06/03/16