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For Night's Silent Hours
For Night's Silent Hours
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn is based on a traditional prayer in the night-time office of Compline. Compline is the final Church service (or office) in the Christian tradition of canonical hours. The named is derived from the Latin completorium, as Compline marks the completion of the day.
Vessels
Vessels
by Julie M Fairweather
Vessels And then when we are finally silent before You when we are stripped of our selves of our expectations - of others expectations Only then can Your grace flow into our empty vessels and we become what You intended for Your purpose - Your plan Continues... © Julie M. Fairwea
The Things He Said - The Things He Said - Discussion Questions
The Things He Said - The Things He Said - Discussion Questions
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
The Things He Said - Discussion questions If this book is being used by groups during Lent then the following questions might be useful discussion starters. I am suggesting a way of reading the book and discussing it over five sessions... Taken from The Things He Said by Stephen
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer G
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer G
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
15 Eucharistic Prayer G Eucharistic Prayer G has had a difficult history. It was first created within the Roman Catholic International Commission for English in the Liturgy and published in 1984. It received attention from Bishop Kenneth Stevenson, who worked on it to produce one
Waiting for God
Waiting for God
by Julie M Fairweather
These days we are often so busy that, when we do find time to talk to God, as soon as we say ‘Amen’ we rush off to the next thing and don’t give God the chance to respond. Yet, in the smallest pauses, God is waiting. He longs for us to hear His voice in that space. At the e
Psalms for Everyone - Silence toward God
Psalms for Everyone - Silence toward God
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Silence toward God Psalm 62 A friend of mine has gone on a month’s silent retreat (he is answering e-mails, which seems a bit like cheating, but then maybe so is reading or listening to talks). He needs to know what is to be the next stage in his life and his service of God, and
The Women's Bible Commentary - Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature
The Women's Bible Commentary - Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature Genesis 34 is a tale of trickery involving female sexuality. Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, is raped by Shechem, the son of Hamor. The question of status that is addressed through trickery is not her status, however, but that of her b
embodying mark - 8 Into the Silence
embodying mark - 8 Into the Silence
by SPCK - meda a a stamper
8 Into the Silence They have been in the story all along, but silent and invisible, unnamed like the woman with her alabaster jar, until now. Even once some of them are named, at the death and the burial (15.40 – 41, 47), still they are motionless and voiceless…
Arthur's Call - Arthur's vocation
Arthur's Call - Arthur's vocation
by SPCK - Frances Young
7 Arthur’s vocation Silent Word A man with a message? Half-focused eyes look up to the sky Through long thin fingers, gently splayed And slowly waved, like flesh-tinged twigs Obliquely catching light from the sun – Not grasping, demanding or easily bored, Just intrigued by finger
Great Christian Thinkers - 42 John Scotus Erigena