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With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119: 10-11
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119: 10-11
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 119. 10, 11 It is one thing to think a thought, it is quite another to bury it and hide it in the heart. Years ago people would learn verses of the Bible off by heart; sadly this is no longer in vogue educationally. Pity! We deprive ourselves. Memorizing a verse, meditating…
Prayer: Great and wonderful God
Prayer: Great and wonderful God
by Marjorie Dobson
Great and wonderful God, we sing about your glory, but we can only imagine what it would be like to be right in the middle of it. Now we are here in this more ordinary place to worship you and to give you thanks. Yet even if we are not dazzled by glorious lights and seeing strang…
Bright morning maker
Bright morning maker
by Marjorie Dobson
Hymn: Bright morning maker Trinity Sunday Year A Genesis 1: 1-2, 4a; Psalm 8 Bright morning maker, as your sun breaks through, dawn’s early light reflects in morning dew. So thankful people sing their praise to you: Alleluia Daylight creator, through the busy day, sun, chasing sh…
Poem: View point
Poem: View point
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: View point Trinity Sunday Year A Matthew 28: 16-20 Living at ground level, we reduce the sky to memory. Buildings enclose; pavements beneath become controllable, within our scope. Here, above our everyday, space is on a different scale. Clouds dominate... 19 June 2011, Tr…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Trinity Sunday - Year A Isaiah 40.12–17, 27–31 2 Corinthians 13.11–13 Matthew 28.16–20 The doctrine of the Trinity used to be caricatured as a piece of irrelevant theory: learned people using human philosophy to make simple things overly complex. The charge often rebounds on …
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 1:6-14 Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35 1st Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11 John 17:1-11 The Israelites knew God by a multiplicity of names and titles, including “the One who rides on the clouds” (Psalm 68:4). In this guise, God presented himself as po…
Doubt and worship, mixed emotions
Doubt and worship, mixed emotions
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Doubt and worship, mixed emotions Trinity Sunday Year A Matthew 28: 16 – 20 Doubt and worship, mixed emotions shimmered through their troubled minds; gathered near the mountain's summit, each remembered words and signs. Jesus spoke with calm assurance, brought to mind all …
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Trinity Sunday Year A Acts 2:1-2:4a Psalm 8 2nd Corinthians 13;11-13 Matthew 28:16-20 There are no Trinity proof-texts in the Bible – no single verse that incontrovertibly proves that God is three persons in one, and the word “trinity” does not appear. Some Bible cri…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Trinity Sunday - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Trinity Sunday - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Trinity Sunday - Year A Service contains: Opening Hymn: Holy, holy, holy Lord God almighty or Bright morning maker Prayer: God, who breathed life Reading: Genesis 1:1-2, 4a Reflection (sermon idea) Part 1 - Poem/monologue based on Genesis 1:1-2, 4a - God said… Hymn: Thou whose al…
Hymn: It seemed a riddle, made no sense
Hymn: It seemed a riddle, made no sense
by Andrew Pratt
It seemed a riddle, made no sense, 'you must be born again', divine impossibility to stretch the human brain. And Nicodemus heard the words, an answer to his search, a man of intellectual strength, his mind would strain and lurch. Verses 3-4 follow Tune: LUCIUS Metre: CM Andrew…
This is God born in a stable
This is God born in a stable
by Andrew Pratt
Philippians 2: 1 – 13 Hymn: This is God born in a stable This is God born in a stable. This is God hung on a cross. This is Christ, our God incarnate, knowing gain and sharing loss. This is God yet fully human, walking down a street in time. This is God yet faulted language makes…
Trinity - Trinity In Lights
Trinity - Trinity In Lights
by Andy Lindley
Its the physicist in me - but look at your TV screens, the tri-coloured pixels make up the images you see. Working together to create an experience of the world. God, in three persons, in perfect harmony, allowing us to know him in fullness. When the three colours combine, yo…
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