Gallery: The Big Sing 2010

“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.”

Let the door of our heart be open to receive, O Christ; the soul of our being unlocked, to welcome you; and the gate of our life flung wide, for your entering in. Amen.

Energising, life-giving, playful God, whose Spirit teases out of creation things old and new, be creative in and through us; be creative beyond us, so that what you hope and will for the world may come into being, justly, abundantly and joyously.

Help us to face honestly and boldly all the flaws and frailties that flow from the freedom you have given us.

Open us up, with the whole of creation, to the future that is yours alone to give.

Involve us not to create your kingdom, but to welcome its arrival in our actions and words.

We pray in the name of Christ, who proclaims and embodies the kingdom we seek. Amen.

Luke 20:27-38'And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.' (vs. 37-38)

Matthew 19:23-26“... it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” (v. 24)