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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C Service contains: Hymn: Let all the world in every corner sing or Ecstatic praise, like sparks of new creation Prayer: Great and wonderful God, Reading: Psalm 97 Meditation: Majestic God - Psalm 97 Hymn: All my hope on God is founded or O Gentle …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Lent - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Lent - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Second Sunday of Lent Year C Service Contents: Hymn: God is love, let heaven adore him or Impossible gifts are with God for the giving Prayer: Psalm 27 reflection: Of whom shall I be afraid? Hymn: In heavenly love abiding or Beneath the wings of eagles Reading: Genesis 15:1-12, 1…
Times and Seasons - Full service - Third in Ordinary Time - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full service - Third in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third in Ordinary Time Year C Service Contains: Hymn: Awake, awake to love and work or We need not hear to understand Prayer: On a dark night Reading: Psalm 19 Poem: Look to the heavens (based on Psalm 19) Hymn: Lord of all being, throned afar or Heaven's gate reveals the pathway…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sunday before Lent
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sunday before Lent
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sunday before Lent – Transfiguration - Year C Service Contains: Hymn: Immortal, invisible, God only wise or Strange holiness: the glory of the Godhead Prayer: Facing sunlight Reading: Psalm 99 Reflection: Royalty (based on Psalm 99) Hymn: The King of love my shepherd is or Who is…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Lent - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Lent - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Lent Year C Service contents: Hymn: Thou whose almighty word (God, whose almighty word) or Great God of awe, beyond imagination Prayer: Generous and caring God Reading: Psalm 63:1-8 Hymn: What a friend we have in Jesus or Sometimes, O God, our weariness Reading: 1…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Trinity - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Trinity - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Trinity - Year C Service contains: Dialogue/drama: Trinity (a piece for two voices) Hymn: Thou whose almighty word or Eternal God, your love’s tremendous glory or Constellations sang in silence Prayer: Generous and caring God Reading: Psalm 8 Poem: Even today Hymn: The church of …
Isaiah for everyone - A Time to Cry and a time to Whoop
Isaiah for everyone - A Time to Cry and a time to Whoop
by SPCK - John Goldingay
A Time to Cry and a Time to Whoop We had dinner with a young couple a few months ago and were delighted to discover that they were expecting their first baby. It was not their first pregnancy; the wife had had a miscarriage last year. I remember how distressing it was when my fir…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Arrogance Goes before Shattering
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Arrogance Goes before Shattering
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Arrogance Goes before Shattering So I wrote a third draft and I now have responses from some other members of our church council, and I must finalize and send the message later today. In a sense it’s easy enough to think through the issues, but it may be harder to work out exactl…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Anxiety and a Good Word
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Anxiety and a Good Word
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Anxiety and a Good Word As usual, I got to sleep fine last night, but awoke after a couple of hours as I sometimes do, and I stayed awake for about three. I had an ache in my arm that wouldn’t worry me if I was fully awake…
Jeremiah for everyone - Bad News or Good News?
Jeremiah for everyone - Bad News or Good News?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Bad News or Good News? It’s possible to be pretty gloomy about the future. Today’s news includes a white gunman killing six Sikh worshipers in a temple in Milwaukee, which other worshipers took as a hate crime reflecting the assumption that people dressed in Sikh fashion were Mus…
Jeremiah for everyone - Cursed Be the Day I Was Born
Jeremiah for everyone - Cursed Be the Day I Was Born
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Cursed Be the Day I Was Born When my first wife’s multiple sclerosis starting taking more of an emotional and mental toll on her (though I don’t think we recognized that this was what was happening), it began to take more of a toll on me, too…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Creation and Numbers
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Creation and Numbers
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Creation and Numbers A skunk shuffled along the grass walkway beyond our patio in broad daylight the other day, which was odd because skunks are nocturnal creatures. They are beautiful but anxiety-making because of the extraordinary stink they can produce when they are threatened…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Crazy for Love (2)
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Crazy for Love (2)
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Crazy for Love (2) I was amused when a friend who (like me) had fallen in love when he was of mature age asked me for advice about his sexual relationship with his fiancée, who was also of mature age…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Don't Let Your Nap Go On Too Long
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Don't Let Your Nap Go On Too Long
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Don't Let Your Nap Go On Too Long When I was a student and we were working in the library in the afternoon, my friend Jim would wrap his scarf around his head, put up the hood of his coat over his head, lean forward onto his desk, and nap…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Does God Have a Wonderful Plan for Your Life?