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Thomas
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Dramatic Monologue: Thomas Second Sunday of Easter - John 20: 19 – 31 It must have felt like walking into a nightmare. All those sensible, down-to-earth friends of yours, ranting and raving; telling you the most bizarre stories; jumping up and down with excitement, flinging …
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Matthew 18: 21-35 Romans 14: 1-12 Today’s readings from Matthew (18 v 21-35) and Romans (14 v 1-12) have a great deal to say about the way we Christians behave towards others, including fellow believers. Forgiveness first; forgivenes…
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 …
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - What Game is Joseph Playing?
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - What Game is Joseph Playing?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
What Game Is Joseph Playing? Genesis 42:1-35 I arrived home late one evening, picked up the mail, and checked messages. When I was in charge of a seminary, I used to avoid reading messages just before bedtime in case it gave me things to worry about that kept me from sleeping, bu…
Recovering from Depression - Sorrow and sighing
Recovering from Depression - Sorrow and sighing
by SPCK - Katharine Smith
Sorrow and sighing Two boys are running along the top of quite a high wall. Suddenly they both slip, lose their balance and fall. One boy suffers some nasty cuts and bruises and is clearly shaken up. The other boy hits his head when he lands and his leg is badly twisted under him…
Psalms for Everyone - Death Cathches You When You Don't Expect It To
Psalms for Everyone - Death Cathches You When You Don't Expect It To
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Death Catches You When You Don’t Expect It To Psalm 49 We recently buried the second-oldest member of our congregation, who until she faded away quickly at the end had regularly attended church. We drove quite a way to the cemetery, and I wondered why, until I discovered that her…
Poem: Too busy?
Poem: Too busy?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Too busy? Busy-ness denotes duty and duty demands dedication and dedication inspires devotion: but busy-ness can also hide emptiness, mask loneliness, produce resentment, lead to self-imposed martyrdom and miss those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to listen and learn. Con…
Job for Everyone - Where Could I Go But to the Lord?
Job for Everyone - Where Could I Go But to the Lord?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Where Could I Go But to the Lord? Job 5: 1-27 The story goes that sometime in the 1930s a Mississippi music teacher and Baptist deacon named James Coats was at the bedside of one of his neighbors, whose name was Joe Keyes. Joe was dying, and James asked him if he knew where he wo…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 11 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 11 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 11 Luke 10: 38-42 Gaze at Martha, inviting Jesus in for a rest and a meal. How she wants to please him! She is bustling about humming quietly to herself with pleasure. She dashes round with the duster, then sets the cushions straight. Next she potters in the kitchen, getti…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - You Could Suddenly Break, and There Could Be No Healing
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - You Could Suddenly Break, and There Could Be No Healing
by SPCK - John Goldingay
You Could Suddenly Break, and There Could Be No Healing The news is full of the story of a soldier in the U.S. army who ran amok and killed sixteen people in Afghanistan. When we discussed it at our Lent group last night as we prayed a psalm for him and for his victims, one of th…
Barefoot Prayers - The Voice of Prayer
Barefoot Prayers - The Voice of Prayer
by SPCK - Stephen Cherry
An introduction in three parts The voice of prayer Prayer is an extremely common human activity. As John Ellerton put it in a famous hymn, ‘the voice of prayer is never silent / nor dies the strain of praise away’.1 It takes myriad forms and transpires in countless contexts. Yet …
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 3. Danger! Unexploded bomb!
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 3. Danger! Unexploded bomb!
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 3 Danger! Unexploded bomb! Romans 8.16, GNB What’s your flammability score? You’re probably just like me: I work, as full-time as I can, as a writer. I am my husband’s fulltime carer. And I also look after the house. And the garden. And …
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 8. Happy Families
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 8. Happy Families
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 8. Happy Families Proverbs 10.1 Maybe you’re fortunate in your family and they’ve been a great help and support. For many of us it’s a tough learning curve on both sides. It’s easy to forget that they too have to go through the same diffic…
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