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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Introduction
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
INTRODUCTION On the very first occasion when someone stood up in public to tell people about Jesus, he made it very clear: this message is for everyone. It was a great day – sometimes called the birthday of the church. The great wind of God’s spirit had swept through Jesus’ follo…
Open with God Book - Trinity Sunday Prayer
Open with God Book - Trinity Sunday Prayer
by Christine Odell
General prayer for worship or meetings Based on Matthew 28:16-20 Creator God, we praise you for your awe-inspiring majesty and thank you for the riches and beauty of Creation inspired and brought to being by your love. We pray for the world, sharing our concerns for countries whe…
Open with God Book - Pentecost Prayer
Open with God Book - Pentecost Prayer
by Christine Odell
General prayer for worship or meetings Based on Acts 2:1-4 Holy Spirit, you came like a roaring wind, unseen, powerful and noisy. Your coming must have shaken the safe house where Christ’s disciples prayed and hid. Blow into your safe church, we pray, and make a noise to wake and…
Open with God Book - The Ascension Of Christ Prayer
Open with God Book - The Ascension Of Christ Prayer
by Christine Odell
General prayer for worship or meetings Based on Acts 1:1-11 God of today, of yesterday and of tomorrow. we find it very hard to let go of much in our lives; we want to hold on to what we love like the disciples who held on to the ascending Jesus with their heaven-cast eyes...
Open with God Book - Church Anniversary Prayer
Open with God Book - Church Anniversary Prayer
by Christine Odell
General prayer for worship or meetings Based on Ephesians 3.14-21 God of past, present and future, we come with joy to pray to you as we celebrate the anniversary of this church and its life and witness through the years. L: Glory to Christ in your church: R: Today and forever!
Imagining the Lectionary- Pentecost Mashup
Imagining the Lectionary- Pentecost Mashup
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Pentecost Mashup Reflection accompanying images: “Can these dry bones live”, “Creator spirit”, “Spirit 1” and “Spirit 2” Can these dry bones live This ancient question, arising out of the harrowing history of God's people in Exile and voiced by God thr…
Imagining the Lectionary: Sanctified by the truth (Easter 7B)
Imagining the Lectionary: Sanctified by the truth (Easter 7B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Sanctified by the truth (Easter 7B) Reflection accompanying images “Salts mill gallery looking at 8 portraits by David Hockney” and “Looking at Yosemite montage by David Hockney” Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. (John 17:17) A family visit…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Paul Reaches Athens
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Paul Reaches Athens
by SPCK - N T Wright
Paul Reaches Athens Acts 17.10-21 There seems to be an increasing fashion in the sporting world, especially in sports that originated in Europe, for ‘World Cup’ contests, and similar events organized in geographical regions. Unless you are a very avid sports fan, these events see…
Meditation/poem/prayer: If love is the centre of God’s being
Meditation/poem/prayer: If love is the centre of God’s being
by Marjorie Dobson
Meditation/poem/prayer: If love is the centre of God’s being If love is the centre of God’s being and we are surrounded by that love, why is it that we find it so hard to love certain other people? Is it a matter of overcoming prejudice? Jesus did that. Is it a matter of disagree…
Imagining the Lectionary: Going Underground (Easter 2B)
Imagining the Lectionary: Going Underground (Easter 2B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Going Underground (Easter 2B) Reflection accompanying images “Going underground” and “Peace be with you atomic bomb” The Jam's great 1980 hit "Going Underground" is an edgy, powerful and raw indictment both of a society which fails to challenge and stan…
Holy Week 3: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Cheap Monday?
Holy Week 3: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Cheap Monday?
by David Perry
Holy Week 3: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Cheap MondayReflection accompanying image “Carnaby street easter testimony” Walking down Carnaby Street in London you just can't miss the eye catching skull logo of the Cheap Monday Store. Such death-in-your-face design is an interesti…
Holy Week 4: Easter day is the datum point of our Faith
Holy Week 4: Easter day is the datum point of our Faith
by David Perry
Holy Week 4: Easter day is the datum point of our Faith Reflection accompanying image “Zero point datum on York Station” Waiting on York Station last week I happened upon the Zero Post. What I read on the plaque above it straightaway sparked off thoughts of Easter. "The centre of…
Holy Week 2: Good Friday judges the Church
Holy Week 2: Good Friday judges the Church
by David Perry
Holy Week 2: Good Friday judges the Church Reflection accompanying image “The curtain of the temple was torn in two” and "You can't evict an idea". On Good Friday in Jerusalem, as Jesus died, we are told that the sky went dark, an earthquake struck, and the curtain in the Temple …
Holy Week 1: Shopping for Easter