Meditation - sunday Before Advent Year C (2nd)
Meditation - sunday Before Advent Year C (2nd)
by David Middleton
Meditation – Sunday before Advent Year C Safe yourself Luke 23: 33-43 Save Yourself if you are the Messiah! The leaders laughed and scoffed at the sight of Jesus, nailed to a cross. His life slowly but certainly, ebbing away, he couldn’t save himself now! Finally Jesus was under …
Meditation - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
Meditation - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
by David Middleton
Meditation – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B He couldn’t do it Mark 10: 17-31 I haven’t seen many rich men as humble as that one; He ran up to Jesus, and fell on his knees before him. That’s a rare thing for a rich man to do, Fall on his knees in front of a homeless itinerant p…
Meditation - Pentecost Year C
Meditation - Pentecost Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – Pentecost Year C Help at last! John 14: 8-17 (25-27) ‘If you love me, obey my commandments,’ he said. Well that sounds easy enough, and to a great extent it’s perfectly reasonable. We really do love him, and just as he so rightly said, because we love him, we want to…
Meditation - Sunday Before Advent Year C
Meditation - Sunday Before Advent Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – Sunday before Advent Year C What is truth? John 18: 33-37 Revelation 1: 4b-8 God of Grace, Moving heaven and earth For love of a fallen race... Created by David Middleton on behalf of LWPT (Leaders of Worship and Preachers Trust) for more information click here.
Reflection: Everyone knows …?
Reflection: Everyone knows …?
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: Everyone knows …? Everyone knows the story of the woman who poured perfume over the feet of Jesus and wiped it away with her hair. Everyone knows that someone – a man - thought it was disgraceful that this should happen in public and strongly protested about it. Every…
Prayer - Eternal God, all our praise will never be enough
Prayer - Eternal God, all our praise will never be enough
by Euruic
Prayer of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving Based on Isaiah 6:1-8 Eternal God, all our praise will never be enough to sing of Your Glory. Whatever situations we might find ourselves in, You Are God, Forever the same, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Your Love never ceases Your L…
Poem: Rules, or freedom
Poem: Rules, or freedom
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Rules, or freedom Rules are tools to keep the unruly in line – or that’s the idea, at least. Rules are restrictive, inactive, inflexible and incapable of making allowances – that’s the idea of most of them. Rules are meant to make fools of those who disobey and in that way …
Prayer: God of mercy and grace
Prayer: God of mercy and grace
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God of mercy and grace God of mercy and grace, we know that we can come to you each morning to bring our requests and our prayers to lay them before you. We are astounded at your great mercy, for we know how your standards for our behaviour are so high and yet you are pre…
Meditation - 3rd Sunday of Easter Year A
Meditation - 3rd Sunday of Easter Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- 3rd Sunday of Easter Time Year A He Walked out on death Luke 24: 13-35 It promised to be a long hard road to Emmaus: The events of the past few days had taken their toll, we were tired, confused and thoroughly depressed. A stranger joined us and despite our best effor…
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- 5th Sunday in Lent Year A Why am I wrapped like a corpse? John 11: 1-45 ‘If only Jesus had been in Judea’, they lamented ‘our brother Lazarus would still be alive now not lying there cold in his tomb surrounded by all this crying and wailing.’ Mary and Martha had sen…
Meditation - Palm Sunday Year A
Meditation - Palm Sunday Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- Palm Sunday Year A Only time will tell Matthew 26: 14-17: 66 When he said he was going to Jerusalem we guessed he would need some support, after all, last time he was here the authorities wanted him dead, so we told our families they would have to fend for themselves…
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Time Year A Go and tell others! John 20: 19-31 I’ll never forget the first time we saw Jesus after his resurrection. It was the first day of the week. We’d spent all Sabbath moping around and wondering what to do with ourselves; after three years…
Meditation - Easter Day Year A
Meditation - Easter Day Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation - Easter Day Year A Go and tell my brothers! John 20: 1-18 Wake up, wake up! I’ve seen Jesus!’ ‘You mean you’ve seen his body?’ ‘No, I mean I didn’t see his body.’ ‘What do you mean Mary, you’ve seen him but you haven’t seen him?’ ‘I mean his body wasn’t there.’ Creat…
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent Year A