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Occasions for Alleluia - Knowing God
Occasions for Alleluia - Knowing God
by SPCK - David Adam
Knowing God The true vision and true knowledge of what we seek consists precisely in not seeing, in an awareness that our God transcends all knowledge and is everywhere cut off from us by the darkness of incomprehensibility. (Gregory of Nyssa, 330 – 95)...
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Love One Another
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Love One Another
by SPCK - N T Wright
3 THE GREAEST OF THE VIRTUES LOVE ONE ANOTHER John 15: 9-17 Like an innocent child wandering by itself into a kitchen and pressing the switches that will set the house on fire, some biblical texts have been taken out of their original setting and used in ways that would have horr…
Lord, You Have Examined Me
Lord, You Have Examined Me
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
Depicting Psalm 139 - Based on the TV Program CSI which examines 'Who are You'. This image created in Photoshop incorporates a DNA design, Richard (from twelvebaskets) face and a baby scan depicting that God knows all about us even before we were born. Words used: THE HOLY BIBLE,…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Christ the King Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Christ the King Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Christ the King John 18: 33-37 Gaze on the gaudy colours of the luxurious Imperial Palace, the wealth of velvet and silk, armour and flags, which decorate the towers and gates that keep the people out. Gaze on the hierarchy of officials and servants, there to make visible the Emp…
Psalms for Everyone - On Facing Two Sets of Facts
Psalms for Everyone - On Facing Two Sets of Facts
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Facing Two Sets of Facts Psalm 22: 19-31 Two friends of ours were giving us an amusing account of a difference they had discerned between the way they approach problems in their relationship and in other aspects of life. It was amusing yet also serious and profound. When there…
Traces of Glory Year B - The Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - The Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
The Fifth Sunday of Lent (Passiontide begins) Lord Jesus Christ, you were lifted up on the cross for us and for our salvation; Help us to triumph over evil and to do good, To give ourselves to you as you give yourself for us, And to live and work to your praise and glory. Amen…
Traces of Glory Year B - Palm Sunday (Liturgy of the Passion) - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Palm Sunday (Liturgy of the Passion) - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Palm Sunday (Liturgy of the Passion) Holy Father, as Christ entered Jerusalem, Let him enter into our lives, let the King of glory come in, That he may rule in our hearts, And that we may offer our love and lives to him; Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who offered his lif…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 15 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 15 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 15 Proverbs 9-1-6 Ephesians 4. 25-5.2 John 6: 35, 41-51 ‘You are what you eat’, so the saying goes. Our modern western culture is wise to the fact that food is not all the same, and will not all be good for you. We are now very anxious about food additives, very aware of p…
John The People's Commentary - The Parting of the Ways
John The People's Commentary - The Parting of the Ways
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
The Parting of the Ways John 6: 56-71 JOHN This chapter’s setting has moved from up in the mountains for the feeding, across the storm-tossed lake to a crowd in Capernaum. The last part of this discourse at least has been Jesus’ teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum (6:59). The …
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 40. You need love too
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 40. You need love too
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 40. You need love too Galatians 5.14 Yes, of course that’s what it’s about. You’re the carer because you do care. It is love that prompts you, motivates you, keeps you going. But sometimes it can feel like all that love has been used up an…
Imagining the Lectionary: The other energy source which lights up the church