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Meditation: … but to serve
Meditation: … but to serve
by Marjorie Dobson
Meditation: … but to serve In a world where service to others is either taken for granted, or considered to be reserved for those who cannot make a success of their lives, how do we reverse this attitude, as Jesus said we should? In a world where wealth brings power and celebrity…
Last Journeys with Jesus - Holy Week Service
Last Journeys with Jesus - Holy Week Service
by Christine Odell
Last Journeys with Jesus A service of readings, Hymns, eyewitness meditations and prayers suitable for Good Friday/Holy Week Out of the Tomb – John 11:32-44 – Lazarus I am aware of darkness. I am alone and icy cold. I cannot move, for the bonds of death hold me fast. I am beyon…
Meditation/ prayer: Samuel
Meditation/ prayer: Samuel
by Marjorie Dobson
Meditation/ prayer: Samuel I’m sorry, God. I didn’t hear you the first time, or the second, or even the third. I didn’t recognise your voice. I suppose I didn’t expect to hear you when it was just an ordinary night – no different from any of the others. And I don’t remember you s…
LWPT Meditations - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
LWPT Meditations - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 2nd Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20 Galatians 5:1, 13-25 Luke 9:51-62 It is not often that we consider the “hard sayings” of Christ, but in our gospel reading we come face to face with some of the harshest words that Jesus spok…
Perpetual fashion, flowery prayers
Perpetual fashion, flowery prayers
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Perpetual fashion, flowery prayers Proper 26 Year A Matthew 23:1-12 Perpetual fashion, flowery prayers, a show to make you blink, the Scribes and Pharisees sought praise, and that should make us think. Hypocrisy had been condemned, Christ saw another way, of humble service,…
Exodus and Leviticus - Whose Service is Perfect Freedom
Exodus and Leviticus - Whose Service is Perfect Freedom
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Whose Service is Perfect Freedom EXODUS 5:1- 6:1 Tomorrow I shall preside at a “service” in church. In what sense do we “serve” God by singing hymns and so on? Indeed, is it God that we are serving? Yesterday, one of my colleagues on the seminary’s chapel committee asked me what …
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Gifts and Ministries
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Gifts and Ministries
by SPCK - N T Wright
Gifts and Ministries 1 Corinthians 12.27-31a Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, in his autobiography, Unfinished Agenda, tells how he served as secretary to the committee that was drawing up, during the 1940s, the constitution for the newly united Church of South India. The chairman raised…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - God's Flexibility
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - God's Flexibility
by SPCK - John Goldingay
God’s Flexibility NUMBERS 8: 5-9: 14 A woman came to talk to me after church two weeks ago. In the sermon I had described the way the Psalms invite us in prayer to appeal to God’s compassion, grace, and steadfast love, especially when we know we are in the wrong in relation to Go…
Jesus is Tempted in the Wilderness
Jesus is Tempted in the Wilderness
by Dave Hopwood
Early Days Bible Ref: Matthew 3 & 4; Mark 1; Luke 2-4; John 1-4 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 read the linking tex…
Jesus Visits the Temple as a Boy
Jesus Visits the Temple as a Boy
by Dave Hopwood
Early Days Bible Ref: Matthew 3 & 4; Mark 1; Luke 2-4; John 1-4 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 read the linking t…
John the Baptist Begins His Ministry
John the Baptist Begins His Ministry
by Dave Hopwood
Early Days Bible Ref: Matthew 3 & 4; Mark 1; Luke 2-4; John 1-4 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 read the linking tex…
Nicodemus