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Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: First Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: First Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 1: THURSDAY Matthew 8; focused on 8.23 –34 Let’s go on that boat and think what it was like. It’s a small lake, as lakes go, but sudden storms come sweeping down from the hills. All of us in the boat know of people who’ve been drowned there, of whole boats that have been swa…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: Second Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: Second Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: THURSDAY Matthew 12.1–21; focused on 12.15 –21 To get the full flavour of what’s going on here, you should really read not just Matthew 12, but Isaiah 42 as a whole. Actually, even that isn’t really enough, because Isaiah 42 is a key passage within a much larger unity, Is…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: First Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: First Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 1: TUESDAY Matthew 6; focused on 6.5 –15 At the very heart of Jesus’ vision of the kingdom – of heaven’s kingdom coming on earth – we have a picture of one person, secretly in their own room, praying. Prayer is a mystery. I’ve often heard people saying, with a sneer, ‘It doe…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: First Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: First Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 1: WEDNESDAY Matthew 7; focused on 7.15 –23 One of the great lies of our time is to suppose that because Jesus brings forgiveness, and urges us to be forgiving people, meek and gentle, there is no sharp edge to his message. To hear some people, you’d think the whole of the C…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday after Ash Wednesday Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday after Ash Wednesday Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY Matthew 4.1–11 It starts with a flicker of thought, a tiny little idea that darts across the mind while you’re doing something else. It seems harmless, just one of the millions of things that the human brain comes up with. But then it returns, a minut…
The dawn of a mystery, the presence of riches
The dawn of a mystery, the presence of riches
by Andrew Pratt
The dawn of a mystery, the presence of riches, for Christ is among us and love ends our fear, the good news of grace is now ours for the asking, a new day is rising, salvation is near! In past generations the promise was hidden, but now we can read it and see with our eyes divine…
We stand in awe and wonder at this moment
We stand in awe and wonder at this moment
by Andrew Pratt
We stand in awe and wonder at this moment, we are Your people and You know our worth; the covenant we make with firm intention will set our course for now upon this earth. When we are lost to love and feel abandoned, out in the desert of our doubt and fear, God take us by the han…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 15 Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 15 Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Lectionary reflections - Year A Ordinary Time Proper 15 Isaiah 56.1, 6–8 Romans 11.1–2a, 29–32 Matthew 15.10–28 This strange story of the Canaanite woman clearly scratches an itch for Matthew’s readers. If you put this version and Mark’s version side by side (Mark 7.24–30), you w…
Fleeting Shadows 2 Video Bundle
Fleeting Shadows 2 Video Bundle
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Storytelling with a difference, these video clips can be used in class or assembly to captivate the children while teaching them stories from the Bible. An ideal resource for primary schools, Sunday Schools, all age worship and youth groups. Bundle Price: £8.50+vat These vide…
Applecartlive's New School Shorts - 3. The Children - Applecartlive
Applecartlive's New School Shorts - 3. The Children - Applecartlive
by Applecartlive Ltd
Massive Sale - up to 50% off a teacher's dozen Resources Applecartlive's New School Shorts is a series of short films produced for children of primary school age. A Bible story is retold in each film using everyday language and creative locations. In The Children the storyteller …
There is a season - Good Friday Liturgy
There is a season - Good Friday Liturgy
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
GOOD FRIDAY Were you there when they crucified my Lord? We gather in the chairs by the font. Hymn Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified m…
There is a season - Pentecost Liturgy
There is a season - Pentecost Liturgy
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
PENTECOST LITURGY Come down, O love divine! COMING TOGETHER IN THE LORD’S NAME We come into the church and sit in silence. When the service begins, we sing together, peacefully, over and over: Music: J. Berthier © Ateliers et Presses de Taizé, F-71250 Taizé-Communauté Leader…..
There is a season - Introduction
There is a season - Introduction
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
Introduction ‘To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.’ Ecclesiastes 3.1 ‘We don’t have time to relax! We’re too busy rejoicing !’ Marion Pritchard, age six, on hearing a radio broadcast telling people to relaxing Easter weekend’ It is one o’cl…
There is a season - Harvest Festival
There is a season - Harvest Festival
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
HARVEST FESTIVAL Unless a grain of wheat falls… INTRODUCTION The meaning of Harvest Festival has changed dramatically in recent years. The UK is no longer an agrarian society – many children are now unaware of the origins of their food, let alone actively involved in its producti…
There is a season - ALL SAINTS' DAY LITURGY