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When I consider the heavens v2
When I consider the heavens v2
by Mark Boulton
Text from Psalm 8 v3-4 'When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers what is man'. Other images in this series: When I consider the heavens - Psalm 8:3-4 The heavens declare the glory of God - Psalm 19 The heavens declare the glory of God v2 - Psalm 19 In the beginnin…
Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
The room and the keys The Hebrew has passed on a beautiful tradition to us; it has to do with divine Scripture in its entirety. According to this man, all of divinely inspired Scripture, because of the obscurity that is in it, can be compared to many locked rooms in a house. Next…
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Series Foreword To read Enzo Bianchi’s work is, among other things, to be forcefully made aware that we have got used to a rather thin diet of resources to help us read the Bible. We have plenty of good scholarship and plenty of good popular summaries of that scholarship – but ve…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Four Gospels,... Four Portraits
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Four Gospels,... Four Portraits
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Four Gospels,… Four portraits Deep in the heart of the Kent countryside, perched on the side of a gentle hill sloping from the Downs to the flat plain of the Kentish Weald, is a large country house. Chartwell, as it is known, was the country home of Sir Winston Churchill from 192…
God's Servants
God's Servants
by Kevin Miles
Original Image “Fairfield Church” by Kevin Miles Image modified and text added by Twelvebaskets Ltd 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 proportion…
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Passiontide
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Passiontide
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
6 Passiontide Exploring the text In Matthew, as in all the Gospels, the climax of the story of Jesus can be found in the last week of his life, in the sweep from the entry into Jerusalem to the crucifixion. As Jesus moves through this last week, the themes of the five narratives …
Poem:Quarrelling about words
Poem:Quarrelling about words
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/meditation/reflection: Quarrelling about words If we believe in God and in what Jesus did and said and how he lived and died and how that same Spirit that was in Jesus is still with us in our world today, then we have the essence of our faith and all the truth that we need t…
We cling to things we know we should not own
We cling to things we know we should not own
by Marjorie Dobson
We cling to things we know we should not own and tempt ourselves with thoughts we should avoid. Our actions often contradict our words and our behaviour merges with the crowd. Our human instincts countermand our faith and drown the whisper of the Spirit’s breath. Verse 2 follows …
Poem: Older and wiser
Poem: Older and wiser
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Older and wiser A small child set to say a psalm, standing before proud parents, Sunday-best-dressed scholars, kind, caring teachers and a curious crowd of anniversary onlookers, rolls round the words, ‘Lift up your heads, O ye gates and be ye lifted up, you everlasting doo…
Reflection/meditation/poem: Compulsion
Reflection/meditation/poem: Compulsion
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/meditation/poem: Compulsion There are times when I wish I didn’t have to do it. There are times when I think that it is a complete waste of time. There are times when other people think I should stop doing it. But I must go on. There are people who consider me to be ol…
Sometimes words are not enough
Sometimes words are not enough
by John Birch
Sometimes words are not enough to express the language of our hearts, sometimes minds are filled with prayers without expression. Sometimes there are not enough spare moments in each day, sometimes regret is all we have as our confession. Sometimes faith is not enough ... Continu…
Hymn: Reign in your tongue, have self-control
Hymn: Reign in your tongue, have self-control
by Andrew Pratt
Reign in your tongue, have self-control, then think of all you do or say, we need to answer ill with love, to find that there's another way. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: ABENDS Metre: LM Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 8/8/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.…
Job for Everyone - When Silence is Not Enough
Job for Everyone - When Silence is Not Enough
by SPCK - John Goldingay
When Silence is Not Enough Job 40:1- 24 Over the years during which my first wife had multiple sclerosis, I have concrete memories concerning two or three occasions when I attempted to confront God about it. Distressed at the way the illness affected her, on one such occasion I r…
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