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First in our hearts
First in our hearts
by Michael Docker
First in our hearts, we would praise as the magi Praised as they saw all your glory around; First of the ones who are born into freedom, Through you we offer the love we have found. First of the days when the world found its freedom We come to worship on this day of all; First in…
Advent Confession
Advent Confession
by Richard Steel
A short responsive confession focusing on the important things in relation to God and other people. Advent Confession Lord, in the midst of all the preparation for Christmas let me concentrate on the important things: - the people I love. May I not get frustrated or angry with t…
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
by SPCK - David Adam
Thanksgiving The psalmist says, ‘Come into his gates with thanksgiving, enter his courts with praise.’ One of the easiest ways to seek God is to think and thank; literally to count your blessings, to see the world as His creation, to see your life, and your eternal life, as in Hi…
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 31st Sunday in Ordinary time Yr A Joshua 3: 7-17 Psalm 107; 1-7, 33-37 1 Thessalonians 2: 9-13 Matthew 23: 1-12 Jesus had silenced the Pharisees (Matthew 22 v 46) but they had not silenced him. The words in our gospel passage (Matthew 23 v 1-12) are the harshest sayi…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Christ the King Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Christ the King Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Christ the King Luke 23: 33-43 Gaze on the two other men, hanging on their crosses. Though we know nothing about their crimes, we may picture them as nasty, brutish men, surly, dirty and dishevelled even before this execution. Were they violent men who had spent a lifetime harmin…
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 4 - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 4 - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 4 God of light and power and glory, we rejoice in your light, We live by your power, we look for your glory. Open our eyes to behold your presence, That we may give ourselves to you; Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, One god …
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 12 - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 12 - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 12 Traces of Glory Year B Lord, throughout our lives we hunger and thirst for you, we long for you, we look for you; nothing in this world can fill us unless you come to us. Lord, we will perish, we will sink amid the storms unless you uphold us, come enfold us in your pea…
John The People's Commentary - Belief, Blindness and Fear