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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Palms - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Lent - Palms - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixth Sunday in Lent - Palms - Year B Service Contents: Hymn: Make way, make way, for Christ the King or The King of kings? It seems absurd! Poem: Palm Sunday Prayer: Surprising God Hymn: I cannot tell why he, whom angels worship or How can we grasp the magnitude Reading: Psalm 1…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sunday before Advent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sunday before Advent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sunday before Advent – Christ the King - Proper 29(34) - Year A Service Contains: Hymn: When morning gilds the skies or What a noise, it shakes the heavens Prayer: Based on Ezekiel 34:11-16 - God, who cares Hymn: Come to us, creative Spirit or Come let us sing a melody Reading: P…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Lent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Lent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday in Lent - Year A Order of Service contains: Opening Hymn: All creatures of our God and King or Where is our God in wilderness and desert Prayer: Jesus was hungry The Lord’s Prayer Hymn: Help us, O Lord, to learn or God give patience as we listen Reading: Exodus 17:1-…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Easter - Year A Service contains: Opening Hymn: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing or Come let us sing a melody Prayer: God of compassion Hymn: Can we by searching find out God or The longest, hardest roads we travel Reading: Psalm 116:1-4; 12–19. Hymn: Amazing …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Advent - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Advent - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday in Advent - Year B This Full Service has alternative gospel readings. It has been mainly focused on the Magnificat from Luke. If the John reading is taken an additional hymn is included to relate to it. Hymn: Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord or Hear the wo…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Lent - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday in Lent - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday in Lent - Year B Hymn: All things praise Thee, Lord most high or Precious God you know no measure (based on Psalm 19) Prayer: Law-giving God Hymn: Give to me, Lord, a thankful heart or God’s commandments link together Psalm 19 Meditation/prayer: Meditation isn’t alwa…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Easter - Year B Service contains: Hymn: Now the green blade rises or The days of Easter ring and play Poem response: based on Psalm 4 Prayer: Confession Hymn: Have faith in God, my heart or Hush! The Psalmist sang of safety Reading: Acts 3:12-19 Hymn: God is love:…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Little Thing Can Have Terrible Consequences and Foreshadow Tragedy
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Little Thing Can Have Terrible Consequences and Foreshadow Tragedy
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Little Things Can Have Terrible Consequences and Foreshadow Tragedy 2 Samuel 6: 1- 23 I write this during Holy Week. In my Bible study group this week someone was expressing his unease with the way we speak of God’s sending his Son to be crucified. Is God some sort of masochist? …
Times and Seasons - Full Servive - ALL SAINTS - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Servive - ALL SAINTS - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
ALL SAINTS - Year A Service contents: Hymn: For all the saints or Eternal fury fires the saints Prayer: Thank you, loving God Hymn: O God our help in ages past or Great God your love has held our lives Reading: Revelation 7:9-17 Sermon idea: Drama/Monologue: Why am I here? – base…
Hymn: Beginning with blessing
Hymn: Beginning with blessing
by Andrew Pratt
Beginning with blessing and bounded with praise where earth touches heaven, the birth of new days. A waiting would follow, the Spirit would come, and those who still followed were acting as one. Verse 2 follows Tune: PADERBORN Metre: 11.11.11.11 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words ©…
I wondered as I wandered
I wondered as I wandered
by Andrew Pratt
Poem: Adam’s reflection - I wondered as I wandered First Sunday in Lent Year A Genesis 2: 15 – 17; 3; 1 – 7 I wondered as I wandered at the meaning of it all, I had seen the apple's greening, I had watched the leaflets fall. I had started at first sunrise, at the blinding of my e…
It all feels so unjust
It all feels so unjust
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue: It all feels so unjust Sixth Sunday of Easter 1 Peter 3: 13 – 22 It all feels so unjust when they slag me off, makes me cynical. I hardly want to believe anymore. Call themselves Christian? And they tell me how to behave? Should look at themselves. It all feels so unju…
Insurance is invalid
Insurance is invalid
by Andrew Pratt
Poem: Insurance is invalid Proper 18 Year A Ezekiel 33: 7 – 11 Insurance is invalid when we are fully warned, if knowing coming danger, that word is simply scorned. For those who know what's coming, yet raise up no alarm, in consequence will suffer and share the self-same harm...…
Jacob’s wrestling
Jacob’s wrestling
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation: Jacob’s wrestling Proper 13 year A Genesis 32: 22 – 31 I'd looked out on that scene before. Knew it like the back of my hand. Funny the sayings we have, I don't know the back of my hand very well, never studied it. But I knew that scene, the placing of trees, leafy in…
Job's Story: Dramatic Reading/Monologue
Job's Story: Dramatic Reading/Monologue
by Andrew Pratt
THIS ITEM PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK OF JOB AND COULD BE NOTED ON EACH SUNDAY THROUGH OCTOBER ON WHICH THE BOOK OF JOB PROVIDES A KEY READING. Dramatic Reading/Monologue This item covers four weeks of the Lectionary readings from the Book of Job. It could be used over the f…
Jealous hatred fired his brothers
Jealous hatred fired his brothers
by Andrew Pratt
Poem: Jealous hatred fired his brothers Proper 14 year A Genesis 37: 1 – 4, 12 - 28 Jealous hatred fired his brothers, Joseph, Jacob's favourite son, cooking up a plot to kill him, thought the plan would soon be done. In the distance they had seen him, saw the dreamer, saw his co…
Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas/New Year Meditation
Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas/New Year Meditation
by Andrew Pratt
Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas/New Year Meditation - Use these words to introduce the hymn or as part of a time of contemplation as Christmas becomes 'Christmas past' and we try to make sense of it as the year turns. Extract: Let earth and heaven combine - A Christmas…
LENT MEDITATION 4 - Come on, my partners in distress