The Hour is Come immerses us in the pace and urgency of the story, bringing alive the experiences of Jesus and his disciples in 'real time'. For each stage in this journey, there is a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer with suggested times of reading, allowing you to witness the events in the timescale that they occurred.
Few writers have a deeper understanding of the foibles of human nature and life's absurdities and tragedies than William Shakespeare. This makes him a fascinating companion for the season of Lent, a traditional time for a spot of self-examination. This engaging, wise and often amusing Lent book sets quotations from Shakespeare's characters and poems alongside biblical passages and reflects on the resonance between them - one reflection for eac...
Latest volume in the series of great medieval bishops' registers continues the records for York Diocese. Covers the cathedral chapter and the chapters of the collegiate churches of Beverley, Howden, Ripon and Southwell, and the collegiate chapel of St Mary and Holy Angels beside York Minster.
Dave's enthusiastic fans will welcome this eighth collection of his shrewd church cartoons. It includes: All-age talks - how to get everyone on your side, Curates - the mess they leave behind when they move on, A guide to understanding the Cake Stall, The church weekend away - budget to deluxe options, and much more.
Reminiscent of Malcolm Guite's bestselling Sounding the Seasons, this beautiful collection offers scripture-inspired poems for each of the major seasons of the Christian year. It includes:
¿ The Call to Prayer (with poetry on the nature of prayer),
¿ Advent, Christmas and Epiphany,
¿ Lent, Easter and Pentecost (including Wings of Wounded Glory, a sequence for Holy Week),
¿ Transforming Ordinary Time (including some feasts which fall outsi...
Each year, the Christmas double issue of the Church Times offers a feast of seasonal reading. News of Great Joy draws together the best Christmas writing by outstanding authors and poets over twenty years to create an ideal Christmas gift and a wealth of material for all who preach or lead worship at Christmas.Its many highlights include:. the eminent biblical scholar John Barton on how to understand the Old Testament prophecies of the nativit...
Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender poet, performer, educator and speaker. In late 2019, his fascination with old church buildings turned into a life-changing encounter with the God he had never believed in, and he was baptised in the Anglican church.In this new poetry collection, Jay details his journey through faith and baptism during an unprecedented world-wide pandemic. As he finds God in the ruined factories and polluted canals of h...
Drawing on the riches of Persian culture and her own dramatic experience of loss of a homeland, Guli Francis-Dehqani offers memorable and perceptive reflections on Jesus' seven final sayings from the cross, opening up for Western readers fresh and arresting insights from a Middle Eastern perspective.
Landscape Liturgies offers outdoor worship material drawn from 2, 000 years of outdoor Christian practice. It contains prayers, rituals, blessings and liturgies compiled from Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Orthodox sources, as well as early church material, the desert tradition and monastic spirituality.It includes resources for the blessing of water courses, tree planting, garden blessings, a wide range of churchyard ceremonies, Roga...
Good preaching depends on being attentive - to God, to the Bible, to the congregation, to the context, to what influences and shapes the preacher. This practical, confidence-building guide is for all who want to develop their preaching by homing in on that which points to God in the now.Encouraging preachers in the ways that will make authentic connections with others, it demonstrates that preaching in today's culture requires preachers to 'sh...
John-Francis Friendship spent twenty-five years as an Anglican Franciscan friar. Drawing on the whole breadth of monastic history and experience, he looks at core aspects of monastic and religious life and applies its practical wisdom for living well in today's world. Chapters include:. Knowing your heart's desire and pursuing it, . Counter-cultural living - the spirit of poverty, chastity and obedience, . Clothing yourself in Christ - getting...