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Walking Backwards to Christmas - Acknowledgements
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Acknowledgements
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Acknowledgements I am grateful to Joanna Moriarty and Alison Barr at SPCK and other colleagues here in Chelmsford for their encouragement with this book. Richard Harries introduced me to the paintings of Albert Herbert. You can find out more in his book The Image of Christ in Mod…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 24 (29) - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 24 (29) - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 24(29) Hymn: Now thank we all our God or Incendiary God, your fire of love Prayer: Let us thank God Hymn: Jesus where’re thy people meet or Some listen to the emptiness Reading: Psalm 99 / Exodus 33:12-23 Hymn: Christ be my leader by nig…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 23 (28)
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 23 (28)
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 23(28) Hymn: Great is thy faithfulness or When the autumn days bring darkness Prayer: thoughts based on Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 Hymn: For the healing of the nations or Look around: so many places Reading: Exodus 32:1-14 Sermon idea - 1: Dra…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 22 (27) - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 22 (27) - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 22(27) - Year A Hymn: God is love, let heaven adore him or The silent language of the stars (based on Psalm 19) Prayer: God of every shining constellation Hymn: I come with joy, a child of God (I come with joy to meet my Lord) or We nee…
Times and Seasons - Full service - Proper 21 (26) - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full service - Proper 21 (26) - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 21(26) - Year A Hymn: How great thou art or Excited by extravagance Prayer: Inspirational God, our rock and refuge Reading: Psalm78:1-4, 12-16 Hymn: I, the Lord of sea and sky or Tell our stories to the children of a journey long ago Read…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 20 (25) - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 20 (25) - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 20(25) - Year A Hymn: Praise and thanksgiving, Father we offer or Constant God we offer praises Prayer: Generous and caring God, we come Confession: Gracious God, forgive us Hymn: Have faith in God, my heart or God of wisdom in our wander…
Times and Seasons - Full service - Proper 19 (24) - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full service - Proper 19 (24) - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 19(24) - Year A Hymn: Great [Lord] God your love has called us here or Bright morning maker, as your sun breaks through Prayer: Great God, your love Poem: How much more Reading: Psalm 114 - Exodus 14:19–31 Hymn: Guide me O thou great Jeh…
the greatest prayer - Your Kingdom Come
the greatest prayer - Your Kingdom Come
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
4 Your Kingdom Come Thy kingdom come. Matthew 6:10, KJV Your kingdom come. Matthew 6:10, NRSV Hesiod was a Greek pessimist for whom the wineglass of history was half empty—and getting emptier. Around the start of the seventh century BCE his Works and Days proposed that humanity h…
the greatest prayer - Our Father in Heaven
the greatest prayer - Our Father in Heaven
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
2 Our Father in Heaven Our Father which art in heaven . . . Our Father in heaven . . . Matthew 6:9, NRSV Her name was Babatha and she lived in Maoza, on the southern tip of Israel’s Dead Sea coast. She was illiterate, wealthy, and financially very competent, moving easily within …
the greatest prayer - Pray Then in This Way
the greatest prayer - Pray Then in This Way
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
1 Pray Then in This Way We do not know how to pray as we ought. Romans 8:26 There is a design team for airports whose special job is the location of public electricity outlets in passenger terminals. Their job is to make them…
the greatest prayer - Prologue The Strangest Prayer
the greatest prayer - Prologue The Strangest Prayer
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
PROLOGUE The Strangest Prayer The Lord’s Prayer is Christianity’s greatest prayer. It is also Christianity’s strangest prayer. It is prayed by all Christians, but it never mentions Christ. It is prayed in all churches, but it never mentions church. It is prayed on all Sundays, bu…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 18(23) - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 18(23) - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 18(23) - Year A Service contents: Call to Worship: Psalm 149 – it is suggested that alternate verses are said responsively Hymn: When in our music God is glorified or Come let us sing a melody (inspired by Psalm 149) Prayer: God of music…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 17(22) - Year A Service contents: Hymn: Jesus calls us here to meet him or Where people are friendly and walking as one Prayer: Welcoming God Reading: Exodus 3:1–15 Sermon idea – Part One (the three parts can be combined into one sermon) Hy…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Churches for All
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Churches for All
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Churches for All Enabling church Churches for All is a partnership of UK Christian disability organizations. These partners have a breadth of experience and depth of knowledge on disability issues – challenging and enabling churches to fully include disabled people. The aim of Ch…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK