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Prayer: Reassuring God
Prayer: Reassuring God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Reassuring God Reassuring God, we come to thank you for all those caring and compassionate people who offer support and encouragement to others in so many different ways. Their love and their service is offered willingly and with a true spirit of dedication. Yet we so oft…
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A What light? Matthew 5: 13-20 What a day! What a preacher! Late home again! ‘If only I’d left earlier’ I thought, as I set off home in the dark. But it was worth it, Jesus was truly compelling today! I recalled some of the first wo…
Monologue/Drama: Look at Peter!
Monologue/Drama: Look at Peter!
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue/Drama: Look at Peter! It’s the same man! It really is! Although you wouldn’t believe it, if you remembered his past behaviour. Remember he was the coward who denied that he knew Jesus when he was challenged by that girl in the courtyard while Jesus was standing trial. H…
Advent Liturgy - hope peace joy love
Advent Liturgy - hope peace joy love
by Jane Bingham
Advent liturgy - Hope Peace Joy Love Sunday 1 – Hope Today we light a candle of Hope. Not just the kind of hope based in a dream-world but the real Christian hope based on the knowledge of God’s continuing love for us offered through Jesus. As we light the candle we pause for a m…
Poem: Nothing else matters
Poem: Nothing else matters
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Nothing else matters Nothing else matters now. Who cares if you’re poor, or wealthy? Who cares if you’re a banker, or unemployed? Who cares if you own a stately mansion, or you’re homeless,? Who cares what colour you are, or what your background is? Who cares how many degre…
friends, FOES and families - Mary at the foot of the cross
friends, FOES and families - Mary at the foot of the cross
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Mary at the foot of the cross John 19.25-27 Mary came to the foot of the cross, drawn as by a magnet. This was the only place on earth to be; the whole universe spinning around this wasteland. There was no choice in her being there, only the necessity of a mother’s love. Sufferin…
Poem: Turning back
Poem: Turning back
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Turning back If repentance comes too late to be able to say, ‘sorry,’ then the guilt lies heavy and forgiveness appears impossible. So when realisation points to the lesson that the wrong choice was made and acted upon, it would be wise to reverse the process, turn around a…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:111-112
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:111-112
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 119:111-112 There’s a joyless religion that should be avoided like the plague. There’s a certain personality that obsesses with detail; it becomes preoccupied with rules and ritual; it prefers the letter of the law to the spirit of the law. Jesus clashed with this sort of p…
Meditation - Pentecost Year C
Meditation - Pentecost Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – Pentecost Year C Help at last! John 14: 8-17 (25-27) ‘If you love me, obey my commandments,’ he said. Well that sounds easy enough, and to a great extent it’s perfectly reasonable. We really do love him, and just as he so rightly said, because we love him, we want to…
Poem/Prayer: God’s children
Poem/Prayer: God’s children
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Prayer: God’s children We are God’s children, led by the Spirit, knowing that we can come to a loving parent with total confidence that we are offered love and care. We are not slaves, held in chains by a cruel owner, but allowed to fly free, guided only by the principles an…
The Open Gate - Candle Prayers
The Open Gate - Candle Prayers
by SPCK - David Adam
Candle Prayers These prayers are for the beginning and the ending of the day. It may help you to light a candle as a symbol of the presence and the power of God to triumph over every darkness. It is good to look at the flame and thank God that His light conquers the darkness, to …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 August 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 August 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 21 AUGUST 1930 I shall be forty-six in two weeks. I no longer have the sense that life is all before me, as I had a few years ago. Some of it is behind—and a miserable poor past it is, so far below what I had dreamed that I dare not even think of it. Nor dare I think …
Meditation - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
Meditation - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
by David Middleton
Meditation – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B I need you, I need you now Mark 7: 24-37 Were you really going to ignore her Jesus? Her tiny little daughter was poorly Not just poorly, she was possessed by a demon. I’m sure she touched your heart, Jesus, I’m sure you must have fel…
The Open Gate - Intercession
The Open Gate - Intercession
by SPCK - David Adam
Intercession Intercession is not so much what we want from God, as discovering what He wants to do and is already doing for us. It is not that we are seeking to change God’s mind, rather it is to open our minds and our lives to His action that is taking place. Too often in prayer…
prayer: God, our Maker