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Prayers for Lent
Prayers for Lent
by John Birch
"It is customary, Lord to give something up during the season of Lent What would you have me do without? I who have so much........." A couple of prayers for use during the season of Lent. This item will download as 09110711121598.doc Extract: Forty days alone, a wilderness of th…
Lent Liturgy 1
Lent Liturgy 1
by John Birch
A liturgy for the first Sunday in Lent (or simply as part of the Lent season) with responsive prayer and a reading for up to 3 people. Love has its source in you Creator God Flows from you like an ocean into a world as unyielding as any shoreline cliff And like the ocean which ba…
Lent Liturgy 5
Lent Liturgy 5
by John Birch
A liturgy of prayer for the fifth Sunday in Lent (or throughout the Lent season), with responsive prayer and a reading for two or three readers. In our waking and arising be the first thought that enters our head In our eating and drinking be the first thought that enters our hea…
Lent Liturgy 4
Lent Liturgy 4
by John Birch
A liturgy of prayer for the fourth Sunday in Lent (or throughout the Lent season), with responsive prayer and a reading for two or three readers. Into the daily cycle of our lives when all seems well with us and with the world when our yoke is easy and the burden light You break …
A laser like tongue used when speaking God's word
A laser like tongue used when speaking God's word
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: A laser like tongue used when speaking God’s word Second Sunday after Epiphany Isaiah 49: 1 – 7; John 1: 29 – 42 A laser like tongue used when speaking God’s word, an arc-light to shine through the crass or absurd. The prophet had spoken of just such a voice, embodied in Jo…
A time to reconsider
A time to reconsider
by Andrew Pratt
Epiphany 3 year A Isaiah 9: 1 - 4; Matthew 4: 12 – 23 Hymn: A time to reconsider A time to reconsider, to pause, to reassess; when crisis comes with challenge, how can God come to bless? And yet a light is shining, we cannot understand that at this time of turning God sharpens wh…
Advent prayer
Advent prayer
by Marjorie Dobson
A prayer linking John the Baptist's message with the birth of Jesus. There is excitement in the air. This is the season of anticipation. For many, it is in the fairytale magic of Father Christmas. For us, it is because we are waiting to celebrate a birth. Continues... (First publ…
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - Horse and Chariots of Fire Around Elisha
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - Horse and Chariots of Fire Around Elisha
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Horses and Chariots of Fire around Elisha 2 Kings 6:8-23 Over recent years the way I pray has been revolutionized by the awareness from the Prophets that when we pray we are taking part in debates in God’s cabinet in heaven. Stories like the one about Micaiah in 1 Kings 22 illust…
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - Is It the End, or Is There Hope
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - Is It the End, or Is There Hope
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Is It the End, or Is There Hope? 2 Kings 24:17-25:30 On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was sitting on my patio when one of my neighbors passed and told me that a plane had flown into one of the Twin Towers in New York. I went indoors and watched transfixed for a while (I di…
Exodus and Leviticus - One Kind of Fear Turns to Another
Exodus and Leviticus - One Kind of Fear Turns to Another
by SPCK - John Goldingay
One Kind of Fear Turns to Another EXODUS 13: 17- 14: 31 This weekend our rector is on a discernment retreat, and next weekend he is away preaching at a church in another city. I was a bit slow on the uptake, and someone else had to whisper to me that this is code for his wonderin…
Exodus and Leviticus - Picking Up the Story