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Times and Seasons - Prayers and readings for the Posada
Times and Seasons - Prayers and readings for the Posada
by Jan Berry
Prayers and readings for the posada Opening sentences/responses In our comings and goings, God, Saviour of the world, travel with us. In our busyness and activity God, Saviour of the world, work with us. In our giving and receiving, God, Saviour of the world, share with us. In ou…
Paper chain people prayers of intercession
Paper chain people prayers of intercession
by Katherine Fox
These prayers of intercession invite the congregation to use each figure in a string of paper chain people to guide their prayers. They pray by writing or drawing on the paper figure for those close to them, those they may not think to pray for, those whose situations they don't…
Meditation - 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C A real turn around Luke 16: 1-13 How can a bad person be a good example? That’s what I want to know, Jesus. I must say I’m not a little surprised by the story you told today, about the shrewd manager. Don’t you think you might be mis…
Meditation - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Matthew 22: 34-46 Leviticus 19: 1-2, 15-18 Deuteronomy 34: 1-12 Jesus spent the final week of his earthly life fielding awkward questions, aimed at him by people who did not so much want the answer as to catch him out in order to acc…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Matthew 18: 15-20 Our passage from Matthew 18 v 15-20 is embedded in a chapter that deals with humility, not causing others to sin, God’s love for the lost, and the serious consequences of being unmerciful. It is a chapter about the …
Lights for the World
Lights for the World
by Dave Hopwood
Feet of Clay and the Breath of God Bible Ref: Isaiah 42; Matthew 5-8 & 10; Mark 3; Luke 6 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrato…
Specks and Logs
Specks and Logs
by Dave Hopwood
Feet of Clay and the Breath of God Bible Ref: Isaiah 42; Matthew 5-8 & 10; Mark 3; Luke 6 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to …
John The People's Commentary - Come & See
John The People's Commentary - Come & See
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Come & See Once again, this scene begins with John the Baptist declaring that Jesus is the Lamb of God (1:36). Two of John’s disciples hear what he says, and, realizing that he is pointing away from himself to Jesus, leave John to find out about Jesus…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 5 Silence
The Monastery Of The Heart - 5 Silence
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Silence T “Monastics should diligently cultivate silence at all times.” Silence is the mother of the Spirit. It births in us the cloister of the heart. It brings us beyond the noise of chaos and clutter and confusion of a spinning world to the cool, calm centre of the spiritual s…
THE AWESOME JOURNEY - 1 Where are you?
THE AWESOME JOURNEY - 1 Where are you?
by SPCK - David Adam
1 Where are you? THE AWESOME JOURNEY Life’s Pilgrimage Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of gl…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 12 Nourishment
The Monastery Of The Heart - 12 Nourishment
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Nourishment “Nothing is so inconsistent with the life of the monastic as overindulgence.” The seeker’s ideal is to be “in the world but not of it”- to be like everyone else but different where it counts. For those who seek to define this other quality of life by membership in a M…
Call to worship - a call for all