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Remembrance
Remembrance
by Diane Brennan
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Romans 3:22-25
Romans 3:22-25
by BigBible
Created by Jo Brown. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by …
Open with God Book - November - All Saints' Day (1 November)
Open with God Book - November - All Saints' Day (1 November)
by Christine Odell
November – All Saints Day (1 November) Calendar of Prayers Reading Revelation 7.9-17 God of the living and the dead, we praise and thank you that we belong to that great multitude which no-one can count, who worship, love and serve you...
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 3rd Sunday of Easter Year C Acts 9:1-6 Psalm 30 Revelation 5:11-14 John 21:1-9 God is great at reversals; he can change disaster into rejoicing, mourning into gladness, death into life. Many of the Old Testament stories tell of eleventh-hour escapes, or of impossibl…
Monologue/Meditation : ‘I’m good’
Monologue/Meditation : ‘I’m good’
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue/Meditation : ‘I’m good’ 'How are you?' 'I'm good'. It's a common greeting these days, but call me old-fashioned, every time I hear that, I'm brought up short. We used to say, 'I'm fine' or I'm well'. But 'I'm good'? No, that doesn't work for me. Let me run that by you a…
Exodus and Leviticus - Vocation
Exodus and Leviticus - Vocation
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Vocation EXODUS 3: 11- 4: 17 In my seminary in England, most students had already been accepted as candidates for ordination, but in my seminary in California many more people come not sure what ministry they may seek or even what denomination they belong to. So we have an Office…
Thomas and Jesus
Thomas and Jesus
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
embodying mark - 3 Following the Healer
embodying mark - 3 Following the Healer
by SPCK - meda a a stamper
3 Following the Healer Hearing the healing in Mark The teacher on the boat of Mark 4 has crossed over to the other side. Beyond the stormy seas, he is confronted by the torment of human suffering in its various guises: the raging of a tortured demoniac, the desperation of the fat…
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 11 “A visionary who, in partnership with… others”
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 11 “A visionary who, in partnership with… others”
by SPCK - Michael Volland
“A visionary who, in partnership with… others” A visionary is someone who thinks about the future with imagination and wisdom. Visionaries have original ideas about what the future could be like; they are able to conceive of an alternative reality in which things are better for m…
John The People's Commentary - Prophet or Messiah?
John The People's Commentary - Prophet or Messiah?
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Prophet or Messiah? As the story unfolds, Jesus has gently led the woman to a greater understanding of who he is, from her initial ignorance (4:9) to calling him ‘sir’ (4:11, 15); as he confronted her with the facts of her life, she began to wonder if he might be greater than Jac…
Great Christian Thinkers - 46 Symeon The New Theologian
Great Christian Thinkers - 46 Symeon The New Theologian
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
Symeon The New Theologian Also bearing reflection from this period is an Eastern monk, Symeon the New Theologian, whose writings have had a notable influence on the theology and spirituality of the East, in particular with regard to the experience of mystical union with God… Take…
John The People's Commentary - Bread from Heaven
John The People's Commentary - Bread from Heaven
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Bread from Heaven Jesus and the crowd have been debating the meaning of the feeding and the last section concentrated on the issue of Jesus’ identity. Suddenly it is no longer a matter of whether he is ‘the prophet like Moses’ who can feed people in the mountains as Moses did. Hi…
Lectio Divina - How the bible has been read
Lectio Divina - How the bible has been read
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
How the Bible has been read As we continue to describe an approach to Scripture that can lead us to an encounter with Christ, God’s definitive Word to humanity, it will help to look very briefly at the different ways people have read the Bible over the course of its history…
Hymn: The touch was so light