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Prayer: God, who spoke
Prayer: God, who spoke
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God, who spoke God, who spoke to us through the ancient prophets, teach us to recognize the prophets of our own time. Some of them have loud voices and say things that upset and disturb us. Some of them may not appear to have anything to say that concerns you, or your wor…
God who has called us
God who has called us
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God who has called us Proper 25 year A 1 Thessalonians 2: 1-8 God who has called us, through Jesus, to be your disciples, you send us out among your people with your message of hope and love, forgiveness and reconciliation. But we are not always confident about speaking o…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - A Huge Row
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - A Huge Row
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Huge Row Acts 15.36-41 There is no point beating about the bush with this one. There are times in church work when leaders, including bishops, really want to knock two people’s heads together and tell them not to be so pig-brained (though actually most pigs wouldn’t dream of be…
Revelation for Everyone - A Little Scroll
Revelation for Everyone - A Little Scroll
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Little Scroll Revelation 10.1-11 One of the most famous baseball umpires of all time, Bill Klem, earned his reputation by insisting that the umpire’s word was not only final, but in a sense creative. On one celebrated occasion, he waited a long time to call a particular pitch. …
Revelation for Everyone - Four Horsemen
Revelation for Everyone - Four Horsemen
by SPCK - N T Wright
Four Horsemen Revelation 6.1-8 All doctors, and all pastors, know that when someone comes to them with a problem, the problem they talk about may not be the only problem they have. The pain that gets someone into the doctor’s surgery may well be only a symptom of much deeper ills…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Loving Your Enemies
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Loving Your Enemies
by SPCK - N T Wright
Loving Your Enemies Matthew 5.38-48 There was once a father who had to go away from his young family for three or four days on business. Anxious that his wife should be properly looked after in his absence, he had a word with the oldest son, who was nine at the time. ‘When I’m aw…
John for Everyone Part 1 - Moses and the Messiah
John for Everyone Part 1 - Moses and the Messiah
by SPCK - N T Wright
Moses and the Messiah John 7.19-30 My friend was walking with his son through a park in a Canadian city. It was a lovely summer day. The son had recently taken up golf, and was itching to practise some shots with a club he’d brought with him. ‘You can’t do that,’ said my friend. …
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 10 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 10 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 10 Amos 7.7–17 Colossians 1.1–14 Luke 10.25–37 If you like word-development, you’ll love Samaritans. Start with a geographical designation: people who live in the hill country, between Galilee and Judaea. Develop to discrimination: the pre-exilic Judaeans speaking of their…
Revelation for Everyone - The First Four Plagues
Revelation for Everyone - The First Four Plagues
by SPCK - N T Wright
The First Four Plagues Revelation 16.1-9 I was cycling down the road one day when I came up beside my former tutor. I had studied the New Testament with him some years before, and was now engaged on some early work towards my doctorate. ‘How are you getting on?’ he asked. ‘How’s …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Hidden Secret
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Hidden Secret
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Hidden Secret Philippians 4.10-13 It was very dark and gloomy that March. There was still snow in the air, and sometimes on the ground, until mid-way through the month. The sun seemed hardly to peer out from behind grey clouds, and a sharp north-easterly wind blew in off the …
LWPT Meditations - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Amos 7:7-17 Psalm 82 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37 When the nation of Israel, God’s chosen people, began to slip into apostasy, it was divided into a northern kingdom – still called Israel – and a southern kingdom called Judah. Jud…
Hymn: Hypocrisy destroys our best intentions
Hymn: Hypocrisy destroys our best intentions
by Andrew Pratt
Hypocrisy destroys our best intentions, and Jesus read the hearts of those he met. His challenge, never veiled, caused consternation with words that those who heard would not forget. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: INTERCESSOR Metre: 11.10.11.10 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 19/10…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - God's Folly
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - God's Folly
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Folly 1 Corinthians 1.18-25 On 15 March 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome, a mile or so away from where I am writing these words. His killers were a group of conservative Republicans who thought, with good reason, that Caesar was planning to make himself king of…
Revelation for Everyone - God's Victory
Revelation for Everyone - God's Victory
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Victory Revelation 19.1-10 In the strange new world of postmodern Britain, weddings are still highly popular, but they are also highly expensive. So much so, in fact, that it is now the norm rather than the exception for couples to live together for some years, intending to…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Newborn Babies
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Newborn Babies
by SPCK - N T Wright
Newborn Babies 1 Peter 1.22-2.3 I was in the car the other day when a programme came on the radio which won my admiration – for sheer daring. An interviewer had gone to a farm where they were raising different kinds of deer, whose meat they were selling as venison to smart restau…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Paul Among the Philosophers (I)
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Paul Among the Philosophers (I)
by SPCK - N T Wright
Paul Among the Philosophers (I) Acts 17.22-34 One of the signs of being really good at chess is that you can play more than one opponent at the same time. Sometimes grand masters will put on a display where they play several different people all at once, walking from one chessboa…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Problems of Family Living
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Problems of Family Living
by SPCK - N T Wright
Problems of Family Living Acts 6.1-7 Late one night there was a knock at the door. It was a good friend of ours. His hat was on crooked and he had wild excitement in his face. ‘It’s twins!’ he shouted as we ushered him in. ‘We had no idea! Two girls! The doctors hadn’t spotted it…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 17 Year C