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Worship Together - Jesus for everyone

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

August – Jesus for everyone Worship Together This outline focuses on Jesus, and the question of identity which runs through the summer readings. This question is explored through miracles, including the feeding of the five thousand, and through teaching. It is reinforced in Old T…

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Worship Together - Hope for Everyone

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

July – Hope for everyone Worship Together This outline continues the theme of discipleship that the lectionary explores during Ordinary Time. The key focus for this month is that those who follow Jesus discover hope, which is sometimes experienced as physical healing, sometimes a…

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Worship Together - June - Choices for everyone

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

June – Choices for everyone Worship Together As we move into Ordinary Time, the lectionary encourages us to think about what it means to be a disciple. The readings face us with the consequences of our decisions, whether in the Old Testament through the keeping of commandments an…

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Worship Together - A place for everyone

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

May – A place for everyone Worship Together Whether Easter falls early or late, the month of May will include readings from the book of Acts. The story of the early Church is read alongside some of the letters written by Peter and John, and the Gospel readings for this season i…

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Worship Together - New life for everyone

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

April- New life for everyone Worship Together In the companion volume to this book, Festivals Together, there are some special outlines for use at the various Easter festivals. This outline is to be used on a Sunday immediately following Easter and picks up on Easter themes. The …

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Worship Together - March - A journey for everyone

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

March- A journey for everyone This outline uses as its key texts the story of Jesus’ temptations and the classic Ash Wednesday readings as a starting point. The journey is that made by Jesus out into the wilderness but also the journey we make through the weeks of Lent. During th…

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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…

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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...…

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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…

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Worship Together - Putting it all together

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

Putting it all together Creating all-age worship: the key components Part 1: Worship Together I recently attended a very ordinary church service. There were probably around 40 people there, ranging from age 3 to 90, but with the overwhelming majority in the over-55s age range. No…

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Worship Together - Universal Stories

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

Universal stories – it happens to us all Creating all-age worship: the key components Part 1: Worship Together Creating worship that has the potential to engage everyone present needs structure and pattern, it needs to be multi-sensory, it needs to have moments of mystery, but pe…

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Worship Together - Mystery and Wonder

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

Mystery and wonder Creating all-age worship: the key components Part 1: Worship Together It may seem strange to include mystery and wonder as key components of good all-age worship. Yet the sharing of moments of awe and astonishment is one of the things that help cross-generation…

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Worship Together - Bodies, places and spaces

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

Bodies, places and spaces Creating all-age worship: the key components Part 1: Worship Together Churches are amazing spaces. Whether a whitewashed medieval stone building or a 1990s brick-built hall, these spaces are often the largest that we engage with during our week. If we go…

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Worship Together - Skeletons and Shapes

by SPCK - Sandra Millar

Skeletons and Shapes Creating all-age worship: the key components Part 1: Worship Together When my niece was about 4 years old I took her with me to a mid-week Book of Common Prayer Eucharist in the market-town Anglican church near where she lived. She was at the age when doing a…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Glossary

by SPCK - N T Wright

GLOSSARY 1 Corinthians age to come, see present age apostle, disciple, the Twelve ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul sees not …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Love that Stitches It All Together

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Love that Stitches It All Together 1 Corinthians 16.15-24 A young woman I met the other day was complaining about a new outfit she had bought at considerable expense in a fashionable store. She had worn it precisely once; and at the end of the evening she discovered that the …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Timothy and Apollos

by SPCK - N T Wright

Timothy and Apollos 1 Corinthians 16.10-14 I have a vivid memory of the first time I stood up in front of a group of people to make an announcement. It was at school, and I had been given responsibility for organizing something; and suddenly the room went quiet, everybody was loo…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Collection and Paul's Plans

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Collection and Paul’s Plans 1 Corinthians 16.1-9 Advertisements in many cosmopolitan cities offer easy and efficient ways of transferring money from one part of the world to another. Many families are now divided by oceans; sometimes those who find work are able to support re…

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