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Traces of Glory Year B - Easter Day - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Easter Day - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Easter Day Blessed be the risen Lord; He has broken from the tomb and opens for us the gate to life eternal. Blessed be the risen Lord; He comes to his disciples, where two or three gather together he is there. Blessed be the risen Lord; He comes from the dead with life, He bring…
A hymn for candle lighting services in Advent
A hymn for candle lighting services in Advent
by Andrew Pratt
A hymn for candle lighting services in Advent Different lectionaries and churches use different themes and orders for these service, A selection of four verses for the Sundays of Advent should be chosen from the selection together with the last verse for Christmas day. The order …
Hymn: A shade for the nations and fruit for the earth
Hymn: A shade for the nations and fruit for the earth
by Andrew Pratt
A shade for the nations and fruit for the earth, a focus for people, a mark of their worth; the sign of a cedar, a hope set up high, for grace would be present, this wasn't a lie. Abandoned in exile, or so it would seem, the prophet had spoken of more than a dream. Dejected and h…
Hymn: Life is tough, but God will hold us
Hymn: Life is tough, but God will hold us
by Andrew Pratt
Life is tough, but God will hold us through each hardship of our lives, when our hope is torn to ribbons grace is present, love survives. God will feed us bread of heaven, finest wine to slake our thirst. Those who grieve will know God's comfort, those who waited will be first.…
Hymn: The Psalmist calls for new songs praising God
Hymn: The Psalmist calls for new songs praising God
by Andrew Pratt
The Psalmist calls for new songs praising God but we prefer familiar words and ways. We hold and cage and mould God to our will, defending customs smothering our praise. A world-wide pool of images and grace informs our faith, re-vitalises hope, and so our view, so narrow and obs…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 FRIDAY... ...One of the best sermons I have heard for a long time was an exposition of this passage. It took the theme of the blind man’s cloak. The cloak, the preacher pointed out, was the man’s security. Shade in summer, warmth in winter, it…
What news is good? That Christ will live forever?
What news is good? That Christ will live forever?
by Andrew Pratt
What news is good? That Christ will live forever? Beyond a cruel death an empty grave? And whether this is fact or faith means nothing unless Christ's Spirit gives the means to save. If we endure derision, in this moment, or share communion bread within this place, unless our liv…
Rhythms of remembering - Lent - Sunday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Lent - Sunday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
LENT - Sunday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you sustain us in desert places. I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild animals from the land, so that they may live in the wild and sleep in the woods securely. Ezekiel 34.25...
Journeying With Mark Year B - Advent
Journeying With Mark Year B - Advent
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
1 Advent Exploring the text The season of Advent is about waiting, both for the Jesus who came to earth as a baby and for the victorious, risen and ascended Christ who will return to earth as King. One of the challenges of Advent is to keep our vision fixed not only on the more t…
Journeying With Mark Year B - Epiphany
Journeying With Mark Year B - Epiphany
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
3 Epiphany Exploring the text In the season of Epiphany we celebrate the revelation of God in the world, and in particular his revelation to the Magi in Matthew’s Gospel. Yet again this idea seems to run counter to Mark’s Gospel, which appears on the surface to be more concerned …
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - Setting the Scene
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - Setting the Scene
by BRF - Dick France
SETTING the SCENE ‘The wilderness’, mentioned four times in verses 1–13 and never again in Mark’s Gospel, is a pointer to the different focus in these introductory paragraphs. They are set not among human society in Galilee or Judea, but in the uninhabited land around the Jordan.…
Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend
Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend
by Andrew Pratt
Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend based on Psalm 147 We cannot comprehend the height and depth, the brightness and beauty of the stars above our heads, so in awe we praise you O God. You rebuild broken cities and gather together the outcasts, bringing peace we dare not imag…
Great Christian Thinkers - 23 St. Ephrem
Great Christian Thinkers - 23 St. Ephrem
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Ephrem Common opinion today supposes Christianity to be a European religion that subsequently exported the culture of this continent to other countries. But the reality is far more complex, since the roots of the Christian religion are found in the Old Testament, hence, in Je…
Great Christian Thinkers - 53 St. Hildegard of Bingen