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Easter Commercials
Easter Commercials
by Jane Bingham
A meditation on the commercialisation of Easter Easter Commercials As soon as Christmas is over there they are on the shelves – Cadburys Cream Eggs. A sign of the next commercial jamboree. Waiting to leap into our frame of reference shortly after Valentines Day and Mothering Sund…
Down to the Core
Down to the Core
by Jane Bingham
A meditation on the image of an apple core and a reflection on personal faith. Down to the core I am down to the core The very last remnant Chewed within an inch of all that I am The flesh seemingly spat out by those who do not value me I am down to the core Forced to draw on the…
If all the world could live as if
If all the world could live as if
by Andrew Pratt
If all the world could live as if the love of God was in each heart. If every one in every place became as one, they could not part. A vast community of love would come to being on the earth, while everyone of every creed would value one another's worth. Verses 3-4 follow Tune: B…
What are the gifts we would treasure most highly
What are the gifts we would treasure most highly
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: What are the gifts we would treasure most highly Proper 12 year A 1 Kings 3: 5-12 What are the gifts we would treasure most highly: freedom or justice or money or wealth; food for the hungry or drink for the thirsty, love for our children, or power, or health? Once God had …
What news is good? What words give hope?
What news is good? What words give hope?
by Andrew Pratt
What news is good? What words give hope? What sense of value do we feel when meeting with our God in Christ, what gives the sense, provides the seal? This seal of perfect love and faith, this hope of holiness and grace, the knowledge that our path is right, is given in our saviou…
What value can you place on love
What value can you place on love
by Andrew Pratt
What value can you place on love, how can you weigh attention that watches every step you take beyond this world's convention? Verses 2-3 follows Tune: DOMINUS REGIT ME Metre: 8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 16/8/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co…
You cannot put a price on love
You cannot put a price on love
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: You cannot put a price on love Proper 13 year A Isaiah 55: 1 – 5 You cannot put a price on love, the taste of milk and honey, the things that really are of worth, you cannot buy with money. The riches that we save and hoard will, in the end, be worthless, God calls us to a …
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Introduction
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Introduction
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Introduction Enabling is what I believe the Church should be about: enabling all people to discover God’s amazing love; and enabling each person in the body of Christ to play his or her part, so the Church of Christ can function to its full potential…
GOD's rich Pattern - Wedding day
GOD's rich Pattern - Wedding day
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
Wedding day The frenetic preparation on the morning of my wedding day hardly gave me any time to think about what I was undertaking. The whole day put me in a whirl. I can remember my mother asking me at six o’clock in the morning whether I had any regrets. I told her I couldn’t …
LWPT Meditations - Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 9th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 1st Kings 18:20-21, 30-39 Psalm 96 Galatians 1:1-12 Luke 7:1-10 The story of the centurion’s servant is a well-known account of faith. The centurion must have been a remarkable man to be so concerned for his servant. At a time when …
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 7.55–60 1 Peter 2.2–10 John 14.1–14 What are we Christians supposed to feel about the world we live in? All three of today’s readings suggest that, at the very least, the world is not our home. Stephen dies as though death is irrelevant, w…
Way out beyond the stone clad walls
Way out beyond the stone clad walls
by Andrew Pratt
Way out beyond the stone clad walls where hills are steep and ravens fed, the quad-bike riding shepherd looks for sheep, distressed or lost or dead. Ten times a hundred fill the fold, but every shepherd holds a place where beasts are safe, are kept and held, are held by duty, lov…
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - PBC Mark: Introduction
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - PBC Mark: Introduction
by BRF - Dick France
PBC MARK: INTRODUCTION Many members of the first-century churches could not read, and many more could not afford to possess a scroll of their own. So we should think of our New Testament books as intended to be read aloud, when the members of the church were gathered together. Ma…
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 9 “Innovates”