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For more than a decade and a half churches around the world have been relying on Sacredise for prayers, liturgies, sermon starters, and devotional materials to help them create worship gatherings that draw people in and that connect them more deeply with God, themselves, others, and our world.
WE REMEMBER WITH THANKS…
A Liturgical and Devotional Guide for a Season of Remembrance and Thanksgiving
Spanning the four weeks from the Sunday after Allhallowtide to the Reign of Christ (just before Thanksgiving), We Remember With Thanks… invites us to end our Liturgical Year with thanksgiving for those who have loved us, been generous toward us, spoken the truth to us, and embodied God’s dream of love and justice.
And then, as we remember these saints (canonised or not, alive or not, known to us personally or not), we are called to follow their example and live as saints ourselves. It’s a short, four-week series, but it’s the perfect way to integrate into our lives everything we have learned through the last Liturgical Year,
and to enter the new year with confidence, courage, and a deeper commitment to the way of Christ.
WE REMEMBER WITH THANKS…
A Liturgical and Devotional Guide for a Season of Remembrance and Thanksgiving
Spanning the four weeks from the Sunday after Allhallowtide to the Reign of Christ (just before Thanksgiving), We Remember With Thanks… invites us to end our Liturgical Year with thanksgiving for those who have loved us, been generous toward us, spoken the truth to us, and embodied God’s dream of love and justice.
And then, as we remember these saints (canonised or not, alive or not, known to us personally or not), we are called to follow their example and live as saints ourselves. It’s a short, four-week series, but it’s the perfect way to integrate into our lives everything we have learned through the last Liturgical Year,
and to enter the new year with confidence, courage, and a deeper commitment to the way of Christ.
Week of 20 – 26 October 2024
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK We live in a world where the quest for greatness has become almost obsessive. Reality television offers the promise of fame and wealth to anyone willing to put themselves "out there". Everything – from corporations to churches to individuals – is measured by the size of buildings, bank accounts or networks. And, while the growth of social media has connected us as never before, it has also created a whole new competition for greatness as we strive for ever increasing numbers of "friends," followers," or [...]
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MASTER YOUR WORLD
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Proper 25B
27 October 2024 The Scriptures are clear – God is in the business of restoration. How this restoration happens, and what its results are, can be surprising. This week reveals the importance of restorative relationships in our experience of God’s restoration, and in the quest for a world of justice, peace and love. May we seek to build these restorative relationships as we worship together this week. READINGS: Job 42:1-6, 10-17: Job recognises that he had spoken without knowledge, and that he has now encountered God. Then God blesses [...]
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The Making of a Messiah
What Six hidden Women Can Teach Us About Jesus
The Making of a Messiah combines the stories of the five ‘hidden’ women in Matthew’s genealogy (and one additional woman from Luke) with the Lectionary readings for Year B to dive deep into the forces that shaped who Jesus was. Together, these six women lead us on a journey, through Advent and Christmas, to encounter Jesus in a new way and to understand both who he was and what his life means for us today.
Vision Quest
See More Clearly
Everything we see is a perspective. And that’s why Advent is such a powerful and transforming season in the Christian Calendar. In the journey from Advent Sunday to New Year’s Day, we are invited to open our eyes, hearts, minds, and souls to a new vision of reality. We are given a Divine Vision that empowers us to see more clearly and live more fully, authentically, and creatively.
What Are You Waiting For?
Listen to Your Longing
One of the most important things we can do to maximise the opportunity for growth and health that Advent and Christmas offer is to listen to our longings. When we listen to our hearts, we get in touch with what we really want in our lives. We connect with what would make us feel more fully alive and connected. We discover what really matters to us and what gives our lives a sense of meaning and purpose. And when we’ve taken note of what our longings tell us, we can then turn to the incarnate Christ to find out how to fulfil those longings!
Love Life
An Advent and Christmas Journey
LOVE LIFE explores the life of God that comes to us in Christ, and how the Advent and Christmas stories teach us to enter into God’s life more fully. It also challenges us to become carriers of God’s love and life into our corner of the world as we seek to be true disciples of Christ.
There’s a New World Coming
An Advent Journey
Based on the readings for the Revised Common Lectionary (Year B), offering thoroughly researched, preaching-focussed commentaries on both the Old Testament and Gospel passages for each Sunday, and providing theme-based liturgies, daily devotions and small group guidelines for each week, There‘s a New World Coming gives preachers and liturgists everything they need to ensure that the Advent journey is meaningful and transforming – in one complete package.
Living the Dream
An Advent Journey through Isaiah & Matthew
In four short weeks, we look ahead to the time of consummation in which God‟s purposes for the cosmos will be fulfilled and completed, and all things are made one and whole in Christ; we look back to the preaching of the prophets, right up to John the Baptiser; we look into a moment in history when Jesus lived and preached as a sign of God‟s Reign; and we look into our own hearts to discover how the ordinary details of our lives can reveal God‟s dream in our own time and place.