Spirituality
Silence
What Do You Fear to Hear? (By Mark Phillips) [Edited] Of all the things our modern, electrically-powered society has destroyed, none is so easily overlooked as “silence.” A century ago, a world without radios, televisions, CD players, pagers, and cell phones provided numerous opportunities to be alone with one’s thoughts. Today, we seem to fear […]
Prayers For All Souls Day
FOR THE DAY OF ALL SOULS (2 NOV) PRAYERS (traditional language) FOR ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED In peace let us pray to the Lord. Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord: Grant, we beseech thee, to thy whole Church […]
Look At Life As God Sees It
(Michel Quoist) ‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord. The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. The foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness […]
He Gives His Beloved Sleep
And there was evening and there was morning — the first day. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he […]
Procure Me Possibility!
Do I make my plans like a worldly person, ready to say Yes and No at once? As surely as God is faithful our word… has not been Yes and No. Test me, Lord, probe me, scrutinise my heart and mind: Your love is always my study, and your constancy my companion. I mimic the […]
To Know God
All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and become like him in his death, in the hope that I myself will be raised from death to life. So Jesus said to those who believed in him, ‘If you obey my teaching you […]
Two Ways Of Reading The Bible
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-188 TWO WAYS OF READING THE BIBLE From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all day long. Psalm 119:97. There are two ways, broadly speaking, we can read the Bible: […]
‘Just Add Water And Shake’ But Can The Bubbles Last?
We proclaim him… so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. That you may […]
What Jesus Did Not Say
They did not understand the saying which he spoke to them. Jesus said to them, ‘My food is doing the will of him who sent me, and finishing the work he has given me. Don’t you say, “Four months more and then comes the harvest”? But I tell you to open your eyes and look […]
Praying From A To Z
Anointing Ask God for the anointing of the Holy Spirit on __________ so s/he will be operating out of the Spirit’s power, not out of human abilities. (1 Corinthians 1:21-22) Boldness Pray that __________ will speak the Word of God with boldness. (II Timothy 1:7) Comfort Ask for comfort in those times when __________ is […]
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