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1. a a Greenhead Park 1 on Sunday 21st June Organised by Waverley URC United Reformed Church ision for Life group The idea is that you visit a number of points in Greenhead Park At each place there is a Bible passage to read and reflect on We start at about 1 30pm at the lower park gates near point I on the map This booklet is laid out with the suggested sequence of visits starting at the lower park gate although of course you are free to visit in any order or to follow the same order but begin at another point in the cycle After the visits at about 3pm we go to Waverley House for tea and to talk about what we have discovered If the weather is really nice we may stay on in the park for refreshments if that is what people want This material can also be used by people visiting these points on a separate occasion Or you can reflect on these passages without even visiting the park Here are some questions to talk about when people re assemble e What did you feel like at these places e What did you learn e What other parts of the Bible would you have used and why e Are there other places that for you have a strong connection with the Bible There is a sketched map opposite which may help An end to war The place the Boer War memorial near the bottom entrance point I Bible background Dream the dream Note also that this connects to Emley Moor raised abov
2. beloved in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition that they received from us For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us we were not idle when we were with you and we did not eat anyone s bread without paying for it but with toil and labour we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you This was not because we do not have that right but in order to give you an example to imitate For even when we were with you we gave you this command Anyone unwilling to work should not eat For we hear that some of you are living in idleness mere busybodies not doing any work Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living Brothers and sisters do not be weary in doing what is right The Hills The place a view of the Pennines point B If you stand near the top entrance the other end of the putting green and the weather is reasonable you can see the Pennines in the distance Bible background A Psalm for reassurance in a time of need Bible Psalm 121 I lift up my eyes to the hills from where will my help come My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth He will not let your foot be moved he who keeps you will not slumber He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep The Lord is your keeper the Lord is your shade at
3. The Lord has made known his victory he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth break forth into joyous song and sing praises Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre with the lyre and the sound of melody With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King the Lord Let the sea roar and all that fills it the world and those who live in it Let the floods clap their hands let the hills sing together for joy at the presence of the Lord for he is coming to judge the earth He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity And finally The place where you end up Look around you Look to the distance if you can see it Look upwards to the sky Bible background You will see why the last paragraph is rarely read in church A Christian would not consider that someone with a perfect hatred has no wicked way in me The Psalmist like all of us is a jumble of impulses and feelings a work in progress But God is to be relied on always there wherever we go The Bible Psalm 139 O Lord you have searched me and known me You know when I sit down and when I rise up you discern my thoughts from far away You search out my path and my lying down and are acquain
4. of you maliciously and lift themselves up against you for evil Do I not hate those who hate you O Lord And do I not loathe those who rise up against you I hate them with perfect hatred I count them my enemies Search me O God and know my heart test me and know my thoughts See if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting Notes Notes
5. said to him Sir you have no bucket and the well is deep Where do you get that living water Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it Jesus said to her Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life The woman said to him Sir give me this water so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water 1 Rebuilding Jerusalem The place the bandstand point D Bible background Nehemiah was sad because Jerusalem was in ruins He was serving King Artaxerxes of Persia and the king asked him why he was so miserable Nehemiah told him and the king allowed him to go to Jerusalem to rebuild it with his blessing Nehemiah 2 11 20 So I came to Jerusalem and was there for three days Then I got up during the night I and a few men with me I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem The only animal I took was the animal I rode I went out by night by the Valley Gate past the Dragon s Spring and to the Dung Gate and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King s Pool but there was no place for the animal I
6. was riding to continue So I went up by way of the valley by night and inspected the wall Then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate and so returned The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing I had not yet told the Jews the priests the nobles the officials and the rest that were to do the work Then I said to them You see the trouble we are in how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burnt Come let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we may no longer suffer disgrace I told them that the hand of my God had been gracious upon me and also the words that the king had spoken to me Then they said Let us start building So they committed themselves to the common good But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard of it they mocked and ridiculed us saying What is this that you are doing Are you rebelling against the king Then I replied to them The God of heaven is the one who will give us success and we his servants are going to start building but you have no share or claim or historic right in Jerusalem Making a joyful noise The place the bandstand again point D Bible background We see the reasons for the Hebrews to make a joyful noise what reasons do we have Psalm 98 O sing to the Lord a new song for he has done marvellous things His right hand and his holy arm have gained him victory
7. Hear O Israel the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today you shall learn them and observe them diligently The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb Not with our ancestors did the Lord make this covenant but with us who are all of us here alive today The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain out of the fire At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to declare to you the words of the Lord for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain And he said I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of slavery you shall have no other gods before me Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy as the Lord your God commanded you For six days you shall labour and do all your work But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God you shall not do any work you or your son or your daughter or your male or female slave or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock or the resident alien in your towns so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day The tragedy of war The Place War Memorial point A The main memorial at the highest point in the park Bible backgro
8. alem and cry to her that she has served her term that her penalty is paid that she has received from the Lord s hand double for all her sins A voice cries out In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God Every valley shall be lifted up and every mountain and hill be made low the uneven ground shall become level and the rough places a plain Then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all people shall see it together for the mouth of the Lord has spoken A voice says Cry out And I said What shall I cry All people are grass their constancy is like the flower of the field The grass withers the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows upon it surely the people are grass The grass withers the flower fades but the word of our God will stand for ever Living water The place the drinking fountain point G Bible background Jesus has met this woman at a well If you have a Bible with you you may want to read the rest of the conversation from John 4 20 onwards The Bible John 4 9 19 The Samaritan woman said to him How is it that you a Jew ask a drink of me a woman of Samaria Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans Jesus answered her If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you Give me a drink you would have asked him and he would have given you living water The woman
9. e the hills The Bible Isaiah 2 2 4 In days to come the mountain of the Lord s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains and shall be raised above the hills all the nations shall stream to it Many peoples shall come and say Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths For out of Zion shall go forth instruction and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for many peoples they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more The fortress The place looking towards Castle Hill point F point E is also possible The banks of an ancient hill fort are still visible when you go to Castle Hill Bible background The writer is beleaguered but trusts God for protection Bible Psalm 62 1 7 For God alone my soul waits in silence from him comes my salvation He alone is my rock and my salvation my fortress I shall never be shaken How long will you assail a person will you batter your victim all of you as you would a leaning wall a tottering fence Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence They take pleasure in falsehood they bless with their mouths but inwardly they curse For God a
10. lone my soul waits in silence for my hope is from him He alone is my rock and my salvation my fortress I shall not be shaken On God rests my deliverance and my honour my mighty rock my refuge is in God Sickness and health The place Looking towards Huddersfield Royal Infirmary point J Bible background Jeremiah hears the Lord mourning over the health of his people The health of society is more than their physical health it is also how well people live with one another The Bible Jeremiah 8 18 22 My joy is gone grief is upon me my heart is sick Hark the cry of my poor people from far and wide in the land Is the Lord not in Zion Is her King not in her Why have they provoked me to anger with their images with their foreign idols The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt I mourn and dismay has taken hold of me Is there no balm in Gilead Is there no physician there Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored Work The place somewhere with a view of the mill on New Hey Road or of the hills flanking the Upper Colne Valley point J in either case Bible background These are words directed at the early Christian community in Thessalonika People need to make a contribution And work is honourable But what if people are denied the chance to work The Bible 2 Thessalonians 3 6 15 Now we command you
11. ted with all my ways Even before a word is on my tongue O Lord you know it completely You hem me in behind and before and lay your hand upon me Such knowledge is too wonderful for me it is so high that I cannot attain it Where can I go from your spirit Or where can I flee from your presence If 1 ascend to heaven you are there if 1 make my bed in Sheol you are there If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea even there your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me fast If I say Surely the darkness shall cover me and the light around me become night even the darkness is not dark to you the night is as bright as the day for darkness is as light to you For it was you who formed my inward parts you knit me together in my mother s womb I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made Wonderful are your works that I know very well My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret intricately woven in the depths of the earth Your eyes beheld my unformed substance In your book were written all the days that were formed for me when none of them as yet existed How weighty to me are your thoughts O God How vast is the sum of them I try to count them they are more than the sand I come to the end I am still with you O that you would kill the wicked O God and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me those who speak
12. ted you this day delivering you from the power of all who rose up against you The king said to the Cushite Is it well with the young man Absalom The Cushite answered May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up to do you harm be like that young man The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept and as he went he said O my son Absalom my son my son Absalom Would that I had died instead of you O Absalom my son my son It was told Joab The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the troops for the troops heard that day The king is grieving for his son The troops stole into the city that day as soldiers steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle The king covered his face and the king cried with a loud voice O my son Absalom O Absalom my son my son EC a ae E Lis z Prepare the way The place near the top of the main straight path from the war memorial looking down towards the gate point K Bible background This is the beginning of second Isaiah the prophet of the homecoming from exile A lot of his words especially the Servant Songs are taken by Christians to be about Jesus This passage is one which puts music in my head either Handel or Lloyd Webber The Bible Isaiah 40 1 8 Comfort O comfort my people says your God Speak tenderly to Jerus
13. und King David s son Absalom is involved in a rebellion against David The rebellion is put down by the king s loyal troops and Absalom is dead But David loves his son Bible 2 Samuel 18 24 19 4 Now David was sitting between the two gates The sentinel went up to the roof of the gate by the wall and when he looked up he saw a man running alone The sentinel shouted and told the king The king said If he is alone there are tidings in his mouth He kept coming and drew near Then the sentinel saw another man running and the sentinel called to the gatekeeper and said See another man running alone The king said He also is bringing tidings The sentinel said I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz son of Zadok The king said He is a good man and comes with good tidings Then Ahimaaz cried out to the king All is well He prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground and said Blessed be the Lord your God who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king The king said Is it well with the young man Absalom Ahimaaz answered When Joab sent your servant I saw a great tumult but I do not know what it was The king said Turn aside and stand here So he turned aside and stood still Then the Cushite came and the Cushite said Good tidings for my lord the king For the Lord has vindica
14. your right hand The sun shall not strike you by day nor the moon by night The Lord will keep you from all evil he will keep your life The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and for evermore Light of the world The place Looking towards Emley Moor TV mast point M near the railway station or possibly point H near the war memorial Bible background Jesus is speaking to a crowd Just as Emley Moor is visible for miles around so our actions are visible also At issue is not the visibility of our actions but whether they are good or bad The Bible Matthew 5 13 16 You are the salt of the earth but if salt has lost its taste how can its saltiness be restored It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled under foot You are the light of the world A city built on a hill cannot be hidden No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket but on the lampstand and it gives light to all in the house In the same way let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven The Sabbath The place A place of relaxation point C Stand between the bowling greens and the tennis courts Bible background This is an extract from the Ten Commandments We must take times of rest it is an order The Bible Deuteronomy 5 1 7 12 15 Moses convened all Israel and said to them
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