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The Second Intercessions Handbook - Intercessions in Mainstream Worship
The Second Intercessions Handbook - Intercessions in Mainstream Worship
by SPCK - John Pritchard
1 INTERCESSIONS IN MAINSTREAM WORSHIP PRACTICALITIES This is a checklist of things to consider when preparing intercessions for mainstream worship: 1 Decide what’s special about this service. Is there a main theme from the Church’s year or from local church life? Will it be a sol…
The Second Intercessions Handbook - A Word at the Beginning
The Second Intercessions Handbook - A Word at the Beginning
by SPCK - John Pritchard
A WORD AT THE BEGINNING I’m very glad you’ve found this book and I hope you find it helpful. It follows on from The Intercessions Handbook, which was an attempt to broaden the imaginative range of the intercessions we use in public worship, in small groups and in personal prayer…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Woman Wisdom
The Women's Bible Commentary - Woman Wisdom
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Woman Wisdom The beginning of the second part of the book is signalled by a shift from second-person exhortation in 1:1–6:21 to first-person-singular speech. The speaker identifies himself first as a mortal and then as a king…
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 19 - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 19 - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 19 O Lord, as Peter confessed you as Christ, give us boldness to proclaim your redeeming love and saving power in the world; may we be ready to beat the cross and give ourselves for others and the advancement of your kingdom; we ask this in your Name, Jesus our Lord, who w…
Isaiah for Everyone - Compassion and Openness to Learning
Isaiah for Everyone - Compassion and Openness to Learning
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Compassion and Openness to Learning I have mentioned that my wife’s daughter and son-in-law give their lives to seeking to make known the plight and needs of the hundreds of thousands of Darfuri refugees who fled from genocide in Sudan ten years ago and have been living since the…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 15 (20) - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 15 (20) - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Eleventh after Trinity Proper 15 (20) - Year B Service Contains Hymn: Thou whose almighty word or Wisdom, love and understanding Prayer: Generous and caring God Reading: 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 Reading: Psalm 111 Reflection on Psalm 111: The Fear of the Lord Hymn: Give to me Lord…
The Women's Bible Commentary - From the Household into the World
The Women's Bible Commentary - From the Household into the World
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
From the Household into the World 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 naive, turn in here,” 9:4, 16). Wisdom and folly, it …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 14 (19) - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 14 (19) - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Tenth after Trinity Proper 14 (19) - Year B Service Contains Hymn: God is here, as we his people or At the rising and the setting Prayer: Welcoming God Psalm 130 Poem: Reflection on Psalm 130 Hymn: When our confidence is shaken or In the depth of deep recession Reading: 2 Samuel …
Isaiah for Everyone - So You Have Fallen from the Heavens!
Isaiah for Everyone - So You Have Fallen from the Heavens!
by SPCK - John Goldingay
So You Have Fallen from the Heavens! Last night we watched a documentary about a young man on death row who was about to be executed. Ten years ago as a teenager he and a friend had murdered a woman, her son, and her son’s friend, all for the sake of stealing their fancy car. The…
Isaiah for Everyone - The Downfall of the Superpower
Isaiah for Everyone - The Downfall of the Superpower
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Downfall of the Superpower Last Sunday’s newspaper included three reviews of books on “the state of the union,” one by a Brit, two by Americans, all written by people who love the United States, but all concerned about its decline as the world’s one superpower. It’s often sai…
Isaiah for Everyone - A Day When There Will Be a Song to Sing
Isaiah for Everyone - A Day When There Will Be a Song to Sing
by SPCK - John Goldingay
A Day When There Will Be a Song to Sing Our city’s annual Black History Parade this year had the theme “Looking back and remembering: we’ve come a mighty long way.” The words reminded me of the hymn, “We’ve Come This Far by Faith.”…
Isaiah for Everyone - On Mixed Motives
Isaiah for Everyone - On Mixed Motives
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Mixed Motives Next week my wife and are to speak at a retreat for students aimed at helping people maintain a connection with God while they’re studying theology. I’m looking forward to this event because we have the experience of going through seminary and watching generation…
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 17 - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 17 - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 17 Make clean our hearts, o God, and renew a spirit within us, that we may seek and serve in joy and gladness and bring others into the glory of your love; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is a live and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God forever. Amen…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Women's First Speech
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Women's First Speech
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Women’s First Speech The woman expresses her desire and explores her feelings for her lover, and his for her, through stories in which she and he both play roles, as themselves or in fantasy guises. Here she tells three. In her first story (2:8–17), she conjures her lover up …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 13 (18) - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 13 (18) - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Ninth after Trinity Proper 13 (18) - Year B **Service contains Hymn: Be still, for the presence of the Lord or Here in the silence of this place Prayer: God who listens Reading: Psalm 51:1-12 Meditation/poem/prayer: Please, God … Hymn: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound or How co…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 12 (17) - Year B