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Worship Together - January -a gift for everyone
Worship Together - January -a gift for everyone
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
January-A Gift for everyone This outline uses the Epiphany readings as a starting point, but could be used on any Sunday in January. Throughout the season of Epiphany the readings are always widening the vision of who Jesus is and widening the scope of his mission and ministry...…
Worship Together - February - Love for everyone
Worship Together - February - Love for everyone
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
February- Love for everyone This outline uses the Ordinary Time after Epiphany as a starting point, but could be used on any Sunday in February. At this time of year, the readings focus on Jesus’ relationship with the disciples and their growing understanding of his full identity…
Worship Together - How to use the service outlines
Worship Together - How to use the service outlines
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
How to use the service outlines The service outlines Part 2: Worship Together The outlines that follow are ready to be used. They are designed to fit into a traditional Sunday morning worship slot and build on the principles outlined. They are not dependent on the presence of chi…
A morning prayer of praise
A morning prayer of praise
by Christopher Collins
A prayer of adoration and praise for a morning service or morning prayer. A morning prayer of praise Let us pray, Sunlight shatters night Action breaks out day stretches forth possibilities, fears, dangers and joys wait to meet us. Let us savour a moment immersed in peace, myster…
Monologue/Drama: Standards
Monologue/Drama: Standards
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue/Drama: Standards Have you ever noticed her down the road at number six? And have you seen the state of her net curtains/ Absolutely disgraceful. She ought to be ashamed of herself, She has no self-respect. And her kids are always rolling around and getting themselves di…
Poem: In praise of the King
Poem: In praise of the King
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: In praise of the King When you find something worth writing about, how the words flow freely. Never having met a handsome king, it is difficult to join in pouring out praise on a richly bejewelled man, dressed in fragrant robes and living in an ivory palace. Continues... ©M…
Monologue: Come away, my love
Monologue: Come away, my love
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: Come away, my love Did you hear that? ‘The voice of my beloved’ and ‘he comes leaping over the mountains like a young stag.’ Can you imagine that kind of thing happening round here? I don’t know what your beloved would sound like but mine’s more likely to be bellowing,…
Poem: Regret
Poem: Regret
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Regret A child who becomes an enemy is still a child. And only the most hard-hearted of parents would not feel some measure of regret and sorrow when the death of that child is reported. The ties of love, even though shredded by conflict and anger, leave threads of emotion …
Luke for Everyone - Signs of the End
Luke for Everyone - Signs of the End
by SPCK - N T Wright
Signs of the End Luke 21.5-19 A news reader announces that an asteroid passed close to the earth. When they say ‘close’, they mean about half a million miles; but in terms of the solar system, that’s quite near at hand. It shows, as one commentator said, that the planet Earth is …
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Tenants
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Tenants
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Tenants Luke 20.9-19 One of the most dramatic scenes ever to take place in the British House of Commons occurred in January 1642. King Charles I went in person to the House to try to arrest five Members of Parliament who had opposed him. The Speaker of the Hous…
Let Christmas come
Let Christmas come
by Michael Docker
Let Christmas come Let the Saviour small as a cradle and already playing with nails Come to our century with its camps and soldiers, tourists and money-men, and play the games of God with our souls, Let the Josephs and Marys, those common people, Let the hill men, the fabulous fo…
Poem of Remembrance
Poem of Remembrance
by Michael Docker
We should remember them, all those who died in war; The soldiers, sailors, airmen and women, wardens And guards, the doctors and the ones whose gardens Grew the food; the wives and mothers; many more - We should remember them; although so long ago For us today what we have they g…
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Good Samaritan
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Good Samaritan Luke 10.25-37 The best-known stories are sometimes the hardest to understand. ‘The good Samaritan’ has passed into folklore, and has succeeded, confusingly, in changing the meaning of the word ‘Samaritan’ itself in modern English. There is now a …
Luke for Everyone - The Lord's Prayer
Luke for Everyone - The Lord's Prayer
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Lord’s Prayer Luke 11.1-13 The telephone rang. It was a message that my younger son, a singer, was about to get on an aeroplane to go with his choir to the other side of the world. If I was quick, I might just be able to catch him with a call to wish him well. I phoned, caugh…
Meditation: Blame culture