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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 22 (27) - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 22 (27) - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Full Service - Proper 22 (27) - Year C Service contents: Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of mankind or Come and find the quiet centre or Here in the silence of this place Prayer: God, who weeps as we do Reading: Psalm 137 Poem: By the river Hymn: My life flows on in endless song (abov…
Deep Church Rising - 6 (part 2) Ortho-Doxia is Gospel-Shaped
Deep Church Rising - 6 (part 2) Ortho-Doxia is Gospel-Shaped
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Ortho-Doxia is Gospel-Shaped Christians are gospel people and the gospel story determines the shape of Christian worship. Indeed, the key criterion of whether worship is Christian is whether it is Christ- centered…
Deep Church Rising - 5 (part 3) Why It Matters 1 – Resurrection: A Case Study
Deep Church Rising - 5 (part 3) Why It Matters 1 – Resurrection: A Case Study
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Why It Matters 1 – Resurrection: A Case Study Let’s take a case study of how the pressures of modernity pose a challenge to orthodox faith. Christians confess of Jesus that “on the third day he was raised from the dead,” and of themselves a hope for “the resurrection of the dead…
Deep Church Rising - 5 (part 2) In Defense of the Creed
Deep Church Rising - 5 (part 2) In Defense of the Creed
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
In Defense of the Creed Creeds often take a fair amount of flack. In the minds of many people they are lifeless sets of “things to believe” that substitute for authentic heart-felt faith; they epitomize outward “religion” obsessed with form and ritual, as opposed to inward devoti…
Deep Church Rising - 5 Deep Faith
Deep Church Rising - 5 Deep Faith
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Deep Faith Orthodoxia as Right Believing The community of Christ-followers has always been a very diverse faith community. From the very first those who confessed Jesus as Messiah and Lord worked out this confession in diverse local contexts with diverse theological emphases and …
Deep Church Rising - 4 Deep Calls to Deep
Deep Church Rising - 4 Deep Calls to Deep
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Deep Calls to Deep In an important book on scriptural approaches to knowledge, Biblical Knowing, Dru Johnson points out that the meaning of things is not there on the surface of reality to read off, raw facts that simply are self-evident…
Deep Church Rising - Where Are We Now?
Deep Church Rising - Where Are We Now?
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Where Are We Now? Modernity simply refers to the modern era in Western cultures, from the sixteenth century onwards—a period of profound economic, technological, social, intellectual, and political change, as described above. Modernism, on the other hand, may best be thought of a…
Deep Church Rising - 3 (part 2) The Industrial Revolution
Deep Church Rising - 3 (part 2) The Industrial Revolution
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
The Industrial Revolution The Rise of Consumerism Modernity was born, and the ideas of the Enlightenment became the stuff of everyday life. In themselves the doctrines of the eighteenth-century philosophers carried conviction but lacked potency…
Deep Church Rising - 2 (part 2) The Scientific Revolution
Deep Church Rising - 2 (part 2) The Scientific Revolution
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
The Scientific Revolution Recovering the Roots of Christian Orthodoxy The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed significant changes in the way in which nature and humanity’s relation to it was rethought in dialogue with important scientific breakthroughs, associated with …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 21 (26) - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 21 (26) - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Proper 21 (26) - Year C Service contains: Hymn: O the life of the world is a joy and a treasure or Now thank we all our God or The auburn leaves are shaking down Reading: Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 Prayer: Sheltering God Hymn: When we are living, we are in the Lord or O God, our help in…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 20 (25) - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 20 (25) - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Proper 20 (25) - Year C Service contains: Hymn: The love of God comes close or God is here! As we His people or Each hour marks a mighty resurrection Prayer: Weeping God Reading: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 Reading: Psalm 79:1-9 Hymn: We lay our broken world or We turn to you, O God of eve…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 19 (24) - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 19 (24) - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Proper 19 (24) - Year C Service contains: Hymn: Jesus call us here to meet him or God is here! As we his people or A house of prayer, where all may come Reading: Psalm 14 Prayer: Discerning God Hymn: O, the love of my Lord is the essence or Come, Lord, to our souls come down or O…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 18 (23) - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 18 (23) - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Full Service-Proper 18 (23) - Year C Service contains: Hymn: Come to us creative Spirit or O the life of the world is a joy and a treasure or Gentle light of new creation Reading: Jeremiah 18:1-11 Responsive prayer: God, our Maker Hymn: Behold the servant of the Lord or Crazy how…
Deep Church Rising - 2: Modernity and Postmodernity
Deep Church Rising - 2: Modernity and Postmodernity
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
2 Modernity and Postmodernity The Rise of the Secular World Philosopher Charles Taylor put the question like this: “Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say, 1500 in our Western society, while in [the twenty-first century] many of us find this not only easy, …
Deep Church Rising - Introduction Part 2: Deep Church