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Tree rings
Tree rings
by Heather Stanley
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…
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Preface: What is this book about?
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Preface: What is this book about?
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
Preface: What is this book about? The Revised Common Lectionary has established itself both in Anglican parishes and other denominations as the framework within which the Bible is read on Sundays in public worship. It follows a three-year pattern, taking each of the Synoptic Gosp…
There is a season - Epiphany Introduction
There is a season - Epiphany Introduction
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
EPIPHANY And we have seen his glory INTRODUCTION Epiphany is a festival that often gets lost, coming so close after Christmas and often being seen as little more than the postscript to the Christmas story itself – ‘and then, twelve days later, three Kings arrived and gave Jesus p…
There is a season - Ash Wednesday Introduction
There is a season - Ash Wednesday Introduction
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
ASH WEDNESDAY Behold, I make all things new INTRODUCTION There is an understandable reluctance among many Sunday School and RE leaders to discuss sin with children. We want our children to feel a strong sense of self, to feel positive about themselves, and to believe in a God who…
At this time of New Year
At this time of New Year
by Marjorie Dobson
At this time of New Year, when we wish happiness to everyone we meet, the Psalmist helps us to focus our minds on those who are in real need. We think of those whose New Year is not a time for celebration. We think of those who have not been able to afford to buy lavish gifts for…
In this common congregation
In this common congregation
by Andrew Pratt
In this common congregation where we've often been before, here among familiar people, meeting God and feeling awe; we are ranked where God has chosen, set with those we might not choose, given tasks that bring us credit, and those where we stand to lose. God has called us to thi…
Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas/New Year Meditation
Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas/New Year Meditation
by Andrew Pratt
Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas/New Year Meditation - Use these words to introduce the hymn or as part of a time of contemplation as Christmas becomes 'Christmas past' and we try to make sense of it as the year turns. Extract: Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas…
Oh where is there love in a world that is tired
Oh where is there love in a world that is tired
by Andrew Pratt
Oh where is there love in a world that is tired, across the year’s threshold, where hope has expired? We wait amid movement, to pause and to pray, to nurture our God at the dawn of each day. Our eyes have been opened, compassion unlocked, the road has been cleared, and the future…
Hymn: The years have turned
Hymn: The years have turned
by Andrew Pratt
The years have turned, the ages passed, millennia run like a stream, and were those words of prophecy a concrete hope, or just a dream? And could a child embody peace, and justice have a human face, could holiness and righteousness inform our grasp of love and grace? Verses 3-4 f…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday after Ash Wednesday Reflection
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday after Ash Wednesday Reflection
by SPCK - N T Wright
FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY Matthew 4; focused on 4.18 –25 18 There’s a sense of excitement at the start of the season. The ground is prepared and marked out. The fixture list is printed. Everything is ready. So along you go for the first match. But imagine what it would be like i…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday Holy Week Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday Holy Week Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
HOLY WEEK: HOLY SATURDAY Matthew 27.57– 66 They tried to keep Jesus safely dead then, and they try it still today. Again and again, when the newspapers or the radio stations want to talk about God, they ignore Jesus. We hear experts proclaiming that science has disproved God – wi…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 1: FRIDAY Matthew 9; focused on 9.9 –17 Those of us who now use computers take it for granted that they will have a large internal memory. This is stored on what is called a ‘hard disk’, as opposed to what we used to have, back in the 1980s, which was a ‘floppy disk’, which …
The spirit that breathed on the waves of the sea
The spirit that breathed on the waves of the sea
by Andrew Pratt
The spirit that breathed on the waves of the sea, is wonder, is wisdom, a cause to be free. Before all creation, her glory was known, with earth as a footstool and heaven her throne. This spirit, this wisdom, then took human flesh, divested of glory, a manger for rest... Verse 2 …
What lies behind the universe
What lies behind the universe
by Andrew Pratt
What lies behind the universe, what power of thought or word, can make some sense of all we see, untangle the absurd? With human eyes we gaze beyond the confines of this earth, in sub-atomic particles we seek creation's birth. Reflecting in this self-same way on Jesus works and w…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Christmas - Year B