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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 16 (21) - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 16 (21) - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Twelfth after Trinity Proper 16 (21) - Year B Service Contents: Hymn: Immortal, invisible, God only wise or The dwelling of God, while transcendent almighty Prayer: Doorkeepers Hymn: The King of love my shepherd is or God who walked this earth before us Reading: 1 Kings 8:(1,6,10…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Advent – Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Advent – Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Second Sunday of Advent – Year C Service Contents: Hymn: Hills of the north, rejoice or For all the world the mystery is waiting Prayer: Advent Prayer Canticle: Luke 1:68-79 Poem: This is my child Either Hymn: Long ago, prophets knew or Robed in righteousness and beauty (inspired…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Second Sunday of Easter - Year C Service contents: Hymn: When morning gilds the skies or Amid expected darkness you raise uncertain dawn Reading: Psalm 118:14-29 or Psalm 150 Responsive prayer: based on Psalm 150 Reading: Acts 5:27-32 Poem: Witnessing Hymn: God moves in a mysteri…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Passion - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Passion - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixth Sunday of Lent - Year C – Passion Service contents: Hymn: I cannot tell how he, whom angels worship or Just an enigmatic neighbour Reading: Psalm 31:9-16 Prayer: Psalm 31 – a responsive prayer Hymn: Believe not those who say or In the testing, when we're hurting Reading: Is…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C Service contains: Hymn: Meet and right it is to sing or Down the mountain the river flows or When nations are healed and all warfare is banished Prayer: Great God, your love Reading: Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5 Poem: Heavenly vision Reading: Psalm 67…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Palm - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Palm - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixth Sunday of Lent - Year C – Palm Service contents: Hymn: Make way, Make way, for Christ the King or The King of kings? It seems absurd! Prayer: Palm Sunday responsive prayer Hymn: Give me joy in my heart or How can we grasp the magnitude Reading: Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 Poem: Th…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Easter - Year C Service contents: Hymn: When morning gilds the skies or The season continues, divine resurrection Prayer: God of hope we come again to worship you Reading: Psalm 30 Hymn: Now the green blade rises or Our God will turn the world around Reading: Acts…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Advent - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Advent - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Advent – Year C Hymn: All our hope on God is founded or Profound expectation, our hope for the future, Prayer: Inexplicable God Hymn: Forgive our sins as we forgive or Forgiveness is ridiculous Reading: Zephaniah 3:14-20 Reflection: Gathering based on Zephaniah 3:…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob The book of Malachi opens with the words “I have loved you.” However, this love is cast as a parent’s preference for one son at the expense of another: Jacob is loved, while Esau is an object of hatred…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Rape of Nineveh
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Rape of Nineveh
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Rape of Nineveh In chapter 3 the narrator begins a new section, addressing the personified city in a complex metaphor that wavers between condemnation of Nineveh as a whore and images of the actual city’s destruction…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Man’s First Speech, with Responses by the Woman and the Jerusalem Women
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Man’s First Speech, with Responses by the Woman and the Jerusalem Women
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Speaking about Love These opening verses, by disorienting the reader with a seemingly dizzying array of speakers, abrupt scene changes (king’s chambers, vineyards, pastureland, Pharaoh’s stables, leafy bower, wine house)…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Parable of the Yeast
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Parable of the Yeast
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Parable of the Yeast By teaching in parables, Jesus assumes Wisdom’s role. The third of seven parables gathered in chapter 13 presents a woman as a main character. Paralleling 13:31–32, the immediately preceding parable of the Mustard Seed…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Violence Condemned and Condoned? Oracles against the Nations and Israel