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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 and the Women of Jerusalem
Jesus and the Women of Jerusalem
by Graeme Dutton
Image for Station 4 - Jesus and the women of Jerusalem Black and white graffiti image created using spray paint on canvas depicting the Women of Jerusalem. See Station 4 text - Click Here Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image i…
Jesus Dies on The Cross
Jesus Dies on The Cross
by Graeme Dutton
Station 6 - Jesus dies on the cross Black and white graffiti image created using spray paint on canvas depicting the moment of Jesus death. See Station 6 text - Click Here Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size whic…
Jesus and his Mother Mary
Jesus and his Mother Mary
by Graeme Dutton
Station 5 - Jesus and his mother Mary Black and white graffiti image created using spray paint on canvas depicting Mary, Mother of Jesus. Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) See Station 5 Text - Click Here PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which …
Travelling Nativity
Travelling Nativity
by Graeme Dutton
Travelling Nativity Introductions for advent services. Each weeks liturgy is split into three sections; a reading, a reflection and a prayer. Each of these could be read by the same person or a different person could read each section. We would suggest that on the 'Sending' week …
Living Liturgies | Transition time resources for services, prayer and conversation with older people - A service of lament: ‘Anger and tears’ | Living Liturgies
Living Liturgies | Transition time resources for services, prayer and conversation with older people - A service of lament: ‘Anger and tears’ | Living Liturgies
by BRF - Caroline George
The following suggestions for a service of lament will need sensitive adaptation for your particular context and their use may depend upon the depth of your relationship with the group. ‘Lament’ is a word that has all but slipped from our vocabulary. It is an expression of sorrow…
Living Liturgies | Transition time resources for services, prayer and conversation with older people - A service of healing - 'Fragile Bones' | Living Liturgies