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Where would we be?
Where would we be?
by John Birch
An inspirational prayer touching on where we would be without God in our lives Where would we be without your light? Losing our way in darkness. Where would we be without your peace? Caught up in this world's wisdom.... Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) Pow…
Take our busyness, Lord
Take our busyness, Lord
by John Birch
An inspirational prayer, particularly for those who need to slow down! Take our busyness, Lord, slow down our steps, steady our breath, calm our thoughts... Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which is 2000 x 150…
Into your presence we come
Into your presence we come
by John Birch
Welcoming prayer: Into your presence we come, Saviour, Shepherd and King, your servants with our offering of worship... Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which is 2000 x 1500 pixels and 1MB The ideal way to ins…
God of the past
God of the past
by John Birch
A payer of confession: God of the past, accept the people we have been and the baggage we drag behind us... Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which is 2000 x 1500 pixels and 531KB The ideal way to insert into P…
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent Year C
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 4th Sunday in Lent Year C Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 I remember the birth of each of my sons; how infinitely precious they were, how tiny, how much in need of my protection. I vowed then that I would be the best father in the world. My wife died giving birth to the younger…
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Lent Year A Join the rest of the world! Matthew 4:1-11 Sometimes, just for the fun of it, I sit on a high point and look down on everyone, like the top of a mountain, or my favourite place, the pinnacle of the temple. I spend hours trying to spot one pe…
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A This is the man Matthew 3: 13-17 I went to see John today, out by the Jordan; you should have been there, it was incredible; I’ve never experienced anything like it before! You know what John is like – larger than life to say the leas…
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Let the Son shine in John 1: (1-9) 10-18 They say that my eyes are the window to my soul, the lamp that lights up my whole body. If my eyes are good then my whole being will be full of light! Pure eyes will let the sunshine into my so…
A Bit Like Jesus - Morris Cerullo's healing mission to London
A Bit Like Jesus - Morris Cerullo's healing mission to London
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Morris Crullo’s healing mission to London In the early 1990s a great deal of publicity was given to the work of the American evangelist Morris Cerullo. Many in England at the time were unfamiliar with the so-called Prosperity Gospel, according to which if you are …
A Bit Like Jesus - Reversing the Prosperity Gospel
A Bit Like Jesus - Reversing the Prosperity Gospel
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Reversing the Prosperity Gospel One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, ‘Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Someone gave a great dinner and invited many. At the time for the dinner he sent his slav…
A Bit Like Jesus - Humility and justice
A Bit Like Jesus - Humility and justice
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Humility and justice He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: ‘Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, wa…
A Bit Like Jesus - Humility between faiths
A Bit Like Jesus - Humility between faiths
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Humility between faiths From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him,…
Blessed Ones
Blessed Ones
by Tim Coleman
The view from the cross of Christ of the people looking on. Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which is 2817 x 3880 pixels and 2.3MB The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768…
Good Friday
Good Friday
by Tim Coleman
Green Hill with 3 crosses, long shadows, violent sky, two silhouette figures (Mary and John) Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which is 1595 x 2329 pixels and 1.4MB The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- …
Three Crosses
Three Crosses
by Tim Coleman
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A Bit Like Jesus - Jesus and the disabled woman
A Bit Like Jesus - Jesus and the disabled woman
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 2 Hypocrisy Jesus and the disabled woman Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her,…
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing stories and parables
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing stories and parables
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Healing stories and parables Can I make an assumption about you as a reader of this Lent Book? I may well be wrong, but I assume that you are slightly intrigued by what it means to be ‘a bit like Jesus’. I should explain...
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - Introduction