Farmers Market Prayers

Newmarket Baptist Church @ Flemington Farmers Market 2013 Call to Worship blessed be god the word... who came to his own and his own received him not... for in this way god glorifies the stranger... (all) Oh God, show us your image in all we meet today that we may welcome them, and you,through Jesus …

A Revolutionary ‘Hail Mary’

Given the sort of physical risk the Bible implies Mary had to survive in order to have a baby, I’ve always thought that these images of revolutionary women might be more appropriate for the mother of Christ rather than the domesticated, insipidly pale faced, blue veiled, watery eyed portraits we’re used to. If you consider …

‘That Was The Worst Christmas Ever’ Confession

PoC (Prayer of Confession) based on 'Who is my Family...?' in the Mark 3 Lectionary reading  (Ordinary 10B)We reflected on the good and bad parts of our experience of family and the ways that we had succeeded and failed to be the 'Family of God' to each other.For reflection we listened to the song "That was the Worst …

Celtic Prayer Retreat: Praying with the Cornish Saints at the Kernewek Lowender

It was a significant and special time for me in May contributing to the 'Praying with the Cornish Saints' Retreat at the Kernewek Lowender Cornish Festival at Moonta on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The Retreat had come about through discussions with Cowethas Peran Sans (The Fellowship of St. Piran) in Cornwall and after an initial workshop at the …

Permaculture, Prayer & The Poor

Below is my 'worksheet' for a session I ran at God, Food, People in Long Gully, Bendigo with the Seeds Bendigo mob last week.  It was inspired in part by a workshop conducted by Earth Abbey at Greenbelt in 2009.  We started with an open sharing about how we understood permaculture which included a tour …

Surrender11 Conference: Final Grace/ Eucharist Prayer

I was keen to post my highlights of "Surrender11: Prayer that Changes the World" but most of them are ditto with Christop who, as ever, is right on to it here. A number of people have asked about our final responsive prayer of the conference which was used as both a benediction and a grace …

Prayers for Christchurch: Seeds Prayer

The Seeds Footscray mob kicked off our '@SeedsPrayer in the Pergola' at our house last night.  Our hearts had been heavy during the week thinking about the earthquake in Christchurch. Talitha is Kiwi and Gregg and Bron and Phil from the Cave mob in Ascot Vale were in Wellington when the quake hit as part …

Epiphany Prayer for Others: Wise Men, Fire & Water

Caspar, Melchior, Balthasar, behütet uns auch für dieses Jahr, vor Feuer und vor Wassergefahr. “…protect us again this year from the dangers of fire and water.” -- prayer uttered during the traditional German feast of the Three Kings Ched Myers blogs here about an old German practice of ritually purifying the household on the Twelfth …

My Top 3 Ideas for ‘Knowing the Word’ this Christmas : Toward a Seedy Advent Spirituality

At a time of significant change in my life I have decided to post some ideas that are significant for me re Christmas and the Seeds Covenant.   Advent is a time of review at the end of a year.  It is also a time when people consider covenanting to Seeds for the coming year. …