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Birth pangs
Birth pangs
by Marjorie Dobson
Birth Pangs A poem imagining the mind of Mary as she struggles to give birth in the stable of the inn. When I said, ‘Yes,’ I did not know where it would lead. Why, in God’s name, must it be here and now Why, after all the prejudice I’d known, the scorn, derision, and the hostile …
Emergency sermon
Emergency sermon
by Jonathan Miller
Answers are hard to come by, at least satisfactory ones. We find ourselves calling out with David, My God, my God, why have you forsaken us? This is a sermon I truely hope that no body will ever need, but it is a sermon for use after a terrorist attack or a natural disaster excer…
Prayer of Adoration for the Trinity
Prayer of Adoration for the Trinity
by Jonathan Miller
This is a prayer and three prayers, written to go with the Holy Trinity paintings I painted. The language is odd but it is supposed to make you stop and think. You may love it, you may hate it but please think why do you feel this way? "Pumzi, Spirit, your name is a verb. You are…
As the world turns, we turn to you
As the world turns, we turn to you
by Gareth Hill Publishing/Song Solutions CopyCare
Hymn – As the world turns, we turn to you As the world turns, we turn to you, - here we pause before you, Lord. In our search for peace in turmoil we have come to be restored. All the world is crowding closer, longing for a touch of grace; asking us to act for Jesus... (c) 2005 G…
One link in the chain of command
One link in the chain of command
by David A. Campton
One link in a Chain of Command Monologue for Holy Week and Good Friday Matthew 8: 5-13; 27: 54; Mark 15: 39; Luke 7: 1-10; Luke 23: 47 I’m just one link in a chain of command… I receive orders and I give them… My name is Marcus Antoninus Proclus, senior centurion of the Tenth Leg…
In Remembrance
In Remembrance
by David A. Campton
In Remembrance Monologue suitable for Easter evening. (Eating and drinking throughout) I’m starving... Mind you, is it any wonder? I’ve hardly eaten since Thursday night... Friday was so busy... Yesterday I couldn’t have faced food... And today... well I’ve had other things on my…
The Blacksmith
The Blacksmith
by David A. Campton
THE BLACKSMITH Good Friday - Easter Day Monologue Holiday-makers! Damned nuisance if you ask me! Every year it's the same Hardly any work for the ten months after Pentecost, then they all flock into Jerusalem for the Passover. And they all want a few wee jobs done when they're he…
Looking for Love
Looking for Love
by David A. Campton
Monologue: Looking for Love John 8: 1-11 (A woman, clearly pregnant) I suppose I was looking for love, but I got more than I bargained for. Everyone talks about love... But there’s precious little of it about. When I was a kid, my Mum and my Dad both called me “Love...” “Love, wo…
The Man Must Die
The Man Must Die
by David A. Campton
The Man Must Die Monologue based on Caiaphas Matthew 21: 12-16; 26: 1-5: Mark 11: 15-18; Luke 19: 45-48; John 2: 13-21; 18: 12- 14 The man must die. He is worse than that madman in the desert that Herod disposed of a few years ago. John the Baptizer... We breathed a sigh of relie…
It has nothing to do with me
It has nothing to do with me
by David A. Campton
It has nothing to do with me... Monologue based on Pontius Pilate Matthew 27: 11-26; Mark 15: 1-15; Luke 23: 1-25; John 18: 28 – 19: 16 It has nothing to do with me... It is a Jewish matter... Nothing to do with Rome. If I had my way I would have left them to it. Another spat bet…
Simply Good News - Rethinking Heaven
Simply Good News - Rethinking Heaven
by SPCK - N T Wright
Rethinking Heaven If Jesus’s first followers spoke about the good news of what had just happened, what did they think would happen in the future as a result? Here we face a major problem. For many generations in the modern church, followers of Jesus in many parts of the world hav…
Simply Good News - The Problem with Progress
Simply Good News - The Problem with Progress
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Problem with Progress Doctrine – isn’t that a strong, almost Christian word for a philosophical teaching? Yes, and that is exactly how progress is used. I spoke two chapters ago about the way the scientific discoveries and political innovations of the eighteenth century gave …
Simply Good News - The Competing Gospel of the Modern World
Simply Good News - The Competing Gospel of the Modern World
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Competing Gospel of the Modern World The first problem, we recall, is that the church has colluded with the legacy of the Middle Ages, proposing going to heaven as the ultimate goal and an angry God as the problem to get around. The second is that modern culture has operated …
Simply Good News - Resurrection as the Beginning of a New World
Simply Good News - Resurrection as the Beginning of a New World
by SPCK - N T Wright
Saving the World How do we know all this? How can we know all this? How is all this not simply a pious dream, a fantasy, a utopia that we all enjoy but know is a mirage? The answer is simple. Jesus was raised from the dead. This is, of course, the second half of the classic summa…
Simply Good News - Wrong Future, Wrong Present
Simply Good News - Wrong Future, Wrong Present
by SPCK - N T Wright
Wrong Future, Wrong Present Like the good news about what has happened in the past, the good news about what will happen in the future has proved hard to grasp. There is a powerful reason for this, which I shall come to in a moment. For now, let’s just note some of the other less…
Simply Good News - Good News - For the World?