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The Same Spirit - poem/meditation
The Same Spirit - poem/meditation
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/meditation -The same spirit Sixth Sunday of Easter John 14: 15-21 A counsellor. A comforter. An advocate. That’s what we need – all three of them. The counsellor will listen and ask questions and help us to understand ourselves, then give us wise advice, but only if we ask f…
God, who breathed life
God, who breathed life
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God, who breathed life God, who breathed life into creation, we come to thank you for its beauty. God, who breathed life into Jesus, we come to thank you for his life and ministry. God, who breathed new life into grieving followers, we come to thank you that you did not l…
Leave a little for the needy?
Leave a little for the needy?
by Andrew Pratt
Seventh Sunday after Epiphany Year A Leviticus 19; 1 -2; 9 – 18; Psalm 119:33-40; 1 Corinthians 3:10- 11, 16-23; Matthew 5:38-48 Hymn: Leave a little for the needy? Leave a little for the needy? This will meet the Bible’s law, but a living Christian spirit takes us further, asks …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Trinity Sunday- Year A Meditation on Matthew 28: 16-20 Gaze for the last time on Jesus, for this is his final appearance in Matthew’s Gospel, and the ending is sudden. No protracted goodbye is allowed for the disciples. There is no description of how they met him on the mountain …
Stirring, dancing, flaming Spirit
Stirring, dancing, flaming Spirit
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Stirring, dancing, flaming Spirit Acts 2: 1 – 21 Stirring, dancing, flaming Spirit, ground of being, source of light; breathing at the world's creation, shining words through human night. Lives that once had been forsaken, shells of people, lost bereft, find the Spirit's re…
Stoned Stephen: martyr for the cross
Stoned Stephen: martyr for the cross
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Stoned Stephen: martyr for the cross Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 7: 55 – 60 Stoned Stephen: martyr for the cross, a witness to the grace of Christ; the love of God, the Spirit’s power; at one in Christian sacrifice. He spoke of love, and lived the life of one who cha…
The riddle of salvation
The riddle of salvation
by Andrew Pratt
2nd Sunday in Lent John 3: 1 – 17 Hymn: The riddle of salvation The riddle of salvation, not of a cross or tomb, confronted Nicodemus within a quiet room. Christ took him back to childhood, and challenged all he knew, his intellect was tested by hearing what to do. 'To reach the …
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - NICODEMUS by NIGHT
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - NICODEMUS by NIGHT
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
NICODEMUS by NIGHT In the last chapter, Jesus did not ‘trust’ himself to people who ‘trusted’ in him because of his signs (2:23–24). Over the coming chapters, many people come to Jesus because of his signs—the Samaritan woman (4:29), the official whose son is healed (4:47), the p…
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