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From a prison cell
From a prison cell
by Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Advent Year A Matthew 11.2-11 Monologue: From a prison cell I shouldn’t have doubted. I should have known. And trusted. But I’d been in this prison too long. And I’m only human. I know! I know! That wasn’t how people saw me. They saw a loud-mouthed, opinionated, w…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 23 (28)
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 23 (28)
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 23(28) Hymn: Great is thy faithfulness or When the autumn days bring darkness Prayer: thoughts based on Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 Hymn: For the healing of the nations or Look around: so many places Reading: Exodus 32:1-14 Sermon idea - 1: Dra…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithless Wife
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithless Wife
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
God as a Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithless Wife (Hosea 1-3) In Hosea 1:2, YHWH commands Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a promiscuous wife and bear children of promiscuity, for the land fornicates away from YHWH” (my trans.). Hosea then marries Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, a…
Pentecost - God has come- a story for a school asembly
Pentecost - God has come- a story for a school asembly
by Sally Coleman
God has come…… Pentecost re-told for a Primary School assembly Cast: Narrator, Peter, and at least 5 disciples (children can be drawn in to help in this assembly) Ribbons or flags can be used to represent flames Narrator: Jesus friends were waiting and praying, it seemed like the…
Good Friday Service
Good Friday Service
by Christine Odell
Good Friday Service A service of linked Call to Worship, hymns, Old and New Testament readings, prayers and meditations Call to Worship: Today is a solemn day. The day when we remember the sufferings and death of Christ our Lord upon the cross: the total self-giving of Love for t…
Open with God Book - Good Friday Prayer
Open with God Book - Good Friday Prayer
by Christine Odell
Good Friday Reading: Mark 15.20b-39 or Mark 15.6-39 Place a cross somewhere prominent and ask those present to reflect on it and the feelings of the first disciples on Good Friday. Nothing can prepare us, loving God, for the reality of this day. We, Christ’s disciples, had not …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Easter Sunday - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Easter Sunday - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Easter Sunday - Year B Service contains: Poem: A strange new day Hymn: Thine be the glory or Come in the morning Prayer: Easter Day Prayer Reading: Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 25:6-9. Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Hymn: Now the green blade rises or A feast for the nations, the Christ is exalt…
Times and Seasons - Full Service-Fifth Sunday of Easter-Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service-Fifth Sunday of Easter-Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B Service contains: Hymn: God is love: let heaven adore him or Each hour marks a mighty resurrection Prayer: Meditation/poem/prayer: If love is the centre of God’s being Song/Hymn: When I needed a neighbor, were you there or See your brother in each …
Mark The People's Commentary - From the Least to the Greatest
Mark The People's Commentary - From the Least to the Greatest
by BRF - Dick France
From the Least to the Greatest Mustard Seed Mustard seed is proverbially tiny (see Matthew 17:20), and yet it produces ‘the greatest of all shrubs’. This is not, of course, the puny ‘mustard-and-cress’ that we grow in little plastic boxes, but a garden herb which in Palestine com…
Open with God Book - Fund-Raising
Open with God Book - Fund-Raising
by Christine Odell
FUND-RAISING Prayers for Various Occasions Reading 2 Corinthians 8.1-9 Ask those present to hold a coin in their hands. Loving God, you know what a big thing money is in our lives: if we have too little we are eaten up with worry; if we have plenty our consciences feel uneasy...
Mark The People's bible commentary - Getting Rid of the Son
Mark The People's bible commentary - Getting Rid of the Son
by BRF - Dick France
GETTING RID of the SON In the last study we heard Jesus’ claim, by implication, to divine authority for what he was doing. Now the same claim is made, this time in the form of a fictional story with a transparent meaning. His opponents know exactly what he means (v. 12), but they…
Genesis for the scientific age
Genesis for the scientific age
by Jonathan Miller
This is a re-writting of the Genesis creation account for the scientific age which I wrote for a module at college. Exerpt-- In the beginning Jesus was with God and Jesus was God. God imagined, Jesus spoke and the Holy Spirit moved and created a speck, smaller than a grain of san…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Action in Messiah and Spirit
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Action in Messiah and Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Action in Messiah and Spirit ROMANS 8.1-4 PAUL FOR EVERYONE ROMANS PART 1 When we lived in the English Midlands, I was once visited by two men researching a potential television programme. There had been a lot of talk about ‘Middle England’, they said. Since I lived more or…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - God's Flexibility