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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…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Visions of Destruction
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Visions of Destruction
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Visions of Destruction The progression of Amos’s visions (in 7:1–9:11) serves to communicate to Amos, as well as to his audience, that judgment on the people is inevitable and that God has attempted to act mercifully in the past, forgiving and ceasing to destroy…
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 - Easter - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Easter - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Easter - Year C Service contents: Hymn: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing or Come in the morning Prayer: Easter Day Prayer Reading: Isaiah 65:17-25 Hymn: This joyful Eastertide or Jerusalem rejoice and sing Reading: John 20:1-18 Poem: Mary Magdalene Hymn: Now the green blade r…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Freedom in Christ
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Freedom in Christ
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
From the Household into the World THE WOMEN’S BIBLE COMMENTARY (Proverbs 10: 1-22: 16) Proverbs 1–9 culminates at a crossroads. The youth hears the voices of wisdom (9:3–6) and folly (9:16–17) beckoning him home for supper, each with initially identical invitations (“you who are …
glimpses of glory - Proper 8 - Year C
glimpses of glory - Proper 8 - Year C
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 8 Spirit of the living God, come fill us, That we may live in joy and peace, And that our lives may show the gifts of patience, kindness and generosity; That we may live in faithfulness, gentleness and self-control through your power working within us…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Good Friday - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Good Friday - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Good Friday - Year C Service contents: Hymn: When I survey the wondrous cross or A carpenter hung on a cross Reading: Psalm 22 Prayer: Agony Hymn: In the cross of Christ I glory or When loneliness oppresses me Reading: Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Hymn: Throned upon the awful tree or In th…
The Power of the Parable - A Hymn for the Nameless (Part 2)
The Power of the Parable - A Hymn for the Nameless (Part 2)
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
A Hymn for the Nameless (part 2) What, then, my fourth question asks, is the location and situation of Mark’s somewhat startling vision of Christian community. I imagine his gospel written among “the villages of Caesarea Philippi” (8:27) for refugees from the terrible destruction…
The Power of the Parable - A Hymn for the Nameless (Part 1)
The Power of the Parable - A Hymn for the Nameless (Part 1)
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
7 A Hymn for the Nameless By the late afternoon of September 2, 31 BCE, Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt had escaped the surrounding squadrons of Octavian and Agrippa, picked up Mark Antony from his abandoned flagship, and fled with him to Alexandria and double suicide…
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 - 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…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Women Traveling with Jesus
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Women Traveling with Jesus
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Women Traveling with Jesus Luke mentions two groups who were with Jesus as he travelled through cities and villages in Galilee: the Twelve and “some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities.” From the second group, three are named: Mary called Magdalene; Joanna th…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Sinner
The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Sinner
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Sinner Accounts of a woman anointing Jesus appear in all four Gospels: Mark 14:3–9; Matthew 26:6–13; John 12:1–8; Luke 7:36–50. Critics are puzzled about exactly how the accounts are related. What seems likely is that one event lies behind them, an event that was changed radi…
glimpses of glory - Proper 6 - Year C
glimpses of glory - Proper 6 - Year C
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 6 Lord God of love, as you come to us and give yourself for us and to us, make us aware of your coming and your generosity, that we may rejoice in your presence and give our love to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, o…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C