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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday before Advent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday before Advent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Second Sunday before Advent - Proper 28(33) - Year A Service contents: Hymn: Take this moment, sign and space or Prophets and judges once challenged indifference Prayer: Confession Hymn: Jesus, where’re Thy people meet or Coming when we least expect it Reading: Psalm 123 Hymn: Fa…
Times and Seasons - Full Service Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A Service contains: Opening Hymn: Immortal, invisible, god only wise or An unknown, enigmatic God Prayer: ‘Father God’ based on Psalm 66:8-20 Hymn: I life my eyes to the quiet hills or We offer worship, held in hope, Reading: Acts 17:22–31 Hymn: Can …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Passion - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Passion - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixth Sunday in Lent - Passion - Year B Service contents: Hymn: My song is love unknown or We wait the dawning of that fateful day Prayer: God, who breathed life Hymn: There is a green hill far away or Now who would have thought that a small crying baby Reading: Psalm 31:9-16 Poe…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year B Service Contains: Hymn: Come all you people, come and praise your maker or The Psalmist calls for new songs praising God Prayer: Loving Father God Psalm 98 Poem: Come crooners and crows Hymn: Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise or See all creation l…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Palms - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Palms - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixth Sunday in Lent - Palms - Year B Service Contents: Hymn: Make way, make way, for Christ the King or The King of kings? It seems absurd! Poem: Palm Sunday Prayer: Surprising God Hymn: I cannot tell why he, whom angels worship or How can we grasp the magnitude Reading: Psalm 1…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sunday before Advent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sunday before Advent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sunday before Advent – Christ the King - Proper 29(34) - Year A Service Contains: Hymn: When morning gilds the skies or What a noise, it shakes the heavens Prayer: Based on Ezekiel 34:11-16 - God, who cares Hymn: Come to us, creative Spirit or Come let us sing a melody Reading: P…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Lent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Lent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday in Lent - Year A Order of Service contains: Opening Hymn: All creatures of our God and King or Where is our God in wilderness and desert Prayer: Jesus was hungry The Lord’s Prayer Hymn: Help us, O Lord, to learn or God give patience as we listen Reading: Exodus 17:1-…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Easter - Year A Service contains: Opening Hymn: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing or Come let us sing a melody Prayer: God of compassion Hymn: Can we by searching find out God or The longest, hardest roads we travel Reading: Psalm 116:1-4; 12–19. Hymn: Amazing …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Advent - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Advent - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday in Advent - Year B This Full Service has alternative gospel readings. It has been mainly focused on the Magnificat from Luke. If the John reading is taken an additional hymn is included to relate to it. Hymn: Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord or Hear the wo…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Lent - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Lent - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday in Lent - Year B Hymn: All things praise Thee, Lord most high or Precious God you know no measure (based on Psalm 19) Prayer: Law-giving God Hymn: Give to me, Lord, a thankful heart or God’s commandments link together Psalm 19 Meditation/prayer: Meditation isn’t alwa…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Easter - Year B Service contains: Hymn: Now the green blade rises or The days of Easter ring and play Poem response: based on Psalm 4 Prayer: Confession Hymn: Have faith in God, my heart or Hush! The Psalmist sang of safety Reading: Acts 3:12-19 Hymn: God is love:…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Little Thing Can Have Terrible Consequences and Foreshadow Tragedy
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Little Thing Can Have Terrible Consequences and Foreshadow Tragedy
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Little Things Can Have Terrible Consequences and Foreshadow Tragedy 2 Samuel 6: 1- 23 I write this during Holy Week. In my Bible study group this week someone was expressing his unease with the way we speak of God’s sending his Son to be crucified. Is God some sort of masochist? …
Times and Seasons - Full Servive - ALL SAINTS - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Servive - ALL SAINTS - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
ALL SAINTS - Year A Service contents: Hymn: For all the saints or Eternal fury fires the saints Prayer: Thank you, loving God Hymn: O God our help in ages past or Great God your love has held our lives Reading: Revelation 7:9-17 Sermon idea: Drama/Monologue: Why am I here? – base…
Hymn: Beginning with blessing
Hymn: Beginning with blessing
by Andrew Pratt
Beginning with blessing and bounded with praise where earth touches heaven, the birth of new days. A waiting would follow, the Spirit would come, and those who still followed were acting as one. Verse 2 follows Tune: PADERBORN Metre: 11.11.11.11 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words ©…
I wondered as I wandered
I wondered as I wandered
by Andrew Pratt
Poem: Adam’s reflection - I wondered as I wandered First Sunday in Lent Year A Genesis 2: 15 – 17; 3; 1 – 7 I wondered as I wandered at the meaning of it all, I had seen the apple's greening, I had watched the leaflets fall. I had started at first sunrise, at the blinding of my e…
It all feels so unjust
It all feels so unjust
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue: It all feels so unjust Sixth Sunday of Easter 1 Peter 3: 13 – 22 It all feels so unjust when they slag me off, makes me cynical. I hardly want to believe anymore. Call themselves Christian? And they tell me how to behave? Should look at themselves. It all feels so unju…
Insurance is invalid
Insurance is invalid
by Andrew Pratt
Poem: Insurance is invalid Proper 18 Year A Ezekiel 33: 7 – 11 Insurance is invalid when we are fully warned, if knowing coming danger, that word is simply scorned. For those who know what's coming, yet raise up no alarm, in consequence will suffer and share the self-same harm...…
Jacob’s wrestling