Lectionary 21/09/2025
- Proper 20 /Ordinary 25 - Year C
Lectionary Readings
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John for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus and Moses
John for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus and Moses
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus and Moses John 5.39-47 You can see it in a class at school. You can see it in a sports team. You can see it in an army barracks. You can see it, in fact, almost anywhere where a peer group builds up and gathers momentum despite the best efforts of those in charge. The boys …
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager Luke 16.1-9 She came up to me after the service and demanded to know what it meant. This passage had been read as the second lesson, while the first had been a prophetic denunciation (from Ezekiel 18, I think) of all kinds of sins, including the …
Luke for Everyone - Teachings on Stewardship
Luke for Everyone - Teachings on Stewardship
by SPCK - N T Wright
Teachings on Stewardship Luke 16.10-18 Luke for Everyone 10‘Someone who is faithful in a small matter’, Jesus continued, ‘will also be faithful in a large one. Someone who is dishonest in a small matter will also be dishonest in a large one. 11If you haven’t been faithful with th…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Calming of the Storm
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Calming of the Storm
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Calming of the Storm Matthew 8.23-27 The sea has always been a symbol of wild, untamable power. You only have to stand beside the ocean, even on a calm day, to sense something of it. There is so much of it, for a start; when the tide comes in, up a beach, imagine how many gal…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Demoniacs
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Demoniacs
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Demoniacs Matthew 8.28-34 I was listening to some music last night that kept surprising me. It was a great symphony, with a wonderful tune that turned this way and that, sweeping us along, catching our emotions and lifting our spirits. Then, just when you thoug…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 20 Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 20 Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 20 Amos 8.4–7 1 Timothy 2.1–7 Luke 16.1–13 Whatever is going on in this strange parable of the dishonest manager? Whichever way you read it, it is confusing. Luke has obviously decided that it is about attachment to wealth, and he has put it with a couple of other stories …
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 20 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 20 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 20 Jeremiah 8.18—9.1 1 Timothy 2.1–7 Luke 16.1–13 The first thing to get clear about the ‘parable of the wicked mammon’ is that it is precisely a parable. It is not advice about financial management: Jesus is not telling people to cheat their bosses. It makes sense within …
The Pastoral Letters - The First Rule: Prayer fo the World
The Pastoral Letters - The First Rule: Prayer fo the World
by SPCK - N T Wright
The First Rule: Prayer for the World 1Timothy 2.1-7 When did you last make a list of people you wanted to pray for? Whose were the first names you wrote down? Most of us would start with the people we know and love best: our spouse, our children, our parents; other close relative…
Saint Paul
Saint Paul
by Colin Smith
Traditional stained glass window in St Johns Methodist Church Hayfield depicting St Paul with Bible and sword. Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which is 1036 x 2000 pixels and 775KB The ideal way to insert int…
Meditation - 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C A real turn around Luke 16: 1-13 How can a bad person be a good example? That’s what I want to know, Jesus. I must say I’m not a little surprised by the story you told today, about the shrewd manager. Don’t you think you might be mis…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 Psalm 79:1-9. 1st Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 16:1-13 God wants all people to be saved and to know the truth (1st Timothy 2:4). God alone has provided salvation “for all men”. He is the one God, and Jesus is “the one mediato…
Drama-You're Fired
Drama-You're Fired
by Clare Truman
A light-hearted sketch exploring the Parable of the Shrewd Manager. Suitable for all age worship. You’re Fired! Luke 16: 1-13 Year C – Proper 20 The Master is sitting on an office chair looking over his accounts and talking to himself. Master: What’s this? A rolex, a Ferrari, ten…
Prayer: Weeping God
Prayer: Weeping God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Weeping God Weeping God, we come to join in your tears for those people who are refugees, or have been taken captive from their own country. We weep for those fleeing from violence and oppression; for those falsely accused of rebellion, when only seeking for justice; for …
The cry of the poor should bring grief to the people
The cry of the poor should bring grief to the people
by Andrew Pratt
The cry of the poor should bring grief to the people, yet balm is not found, there is mourning instead. The harvest is past and the summer is ended, the winter is coming, dread raises its head. Verses 2-3 follow Metre: 12 11 12 11 Tune: STREETS OF LAREDO Andrew Pratt (born 1948…
When blood is poured like water
When blood is poured like water
by Andrew Pratt
When blood is poured like water, humanity destroyed, in denigrating neighbours, your grace seems null and void. Our politics seem barren as this hot desert floor, while all around seems hopeless and life, a firm closed door. Verses 2-3 follow Metre: 7 6 7 6 D Tune: PASSION CHORAL…
Poem: Good news
Poem: Good news
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Good news Bad news stories hit the headlines: crime and evil every day. and if there’s no bad news story, speculation will hold sway. Tweets and twitters full of fury fuel aggression, stir up hate and when this erupts in violence, action comes, but far too late. Continues..…
Monologue/Drama: The crafty manager
Monologue/Drama: The crafty manager
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue/Drama: The crafty manager He was a crafty devil, that manager of mine – and devil was the right word for him. He’d been fiddling his expenses for years and the only reason he got away with it was that I wasn’t involving myself in the management side of the business as m…
People that manage, manipulate markets
People that manage, manipulate markets
by Andrew Pratt
People that manage, manipulate markets, using their skills just to maximise gain. This is the focus that holds their attention, working for profit, their purpose is plain. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: STEWARDSHIP; LIEBSTER IMMANUEL, ST NINIAN (Dykes) Metre: 11.10.11.10 Andrew Pratt …
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 20 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 20 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 20 Luke 16: 1-13 Gaze .on an old B-movie of cowboys and Indians. The Wells Fargo stagecoach gallops over the barren Wild West of America. It has been ambushed and the driver has been shot by the bandits; he is slumped over and has dropped the reins. He can steer the coach …
Imagining the Lectionary: It's your soul, stupid
Imagining the Lectionary: It's your soul, stupid
by David Perry
Reflection accompanying images “Beware dangerous cliffs", "Which direction" and "Well worn cobbled path” “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” …
Beware dangerous cliffs
Beware dangerous cliffs
by David Perry
Image accompanying reflection Imagining the Lectionary: It's your soul, stupid (Proper 20C / Pentecost 18C) TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image prop…
Which direction
Which direction
by David Perry
Image accompanying reflection Imagining the Lectionary: It's your soul, stupid (Proper 20C / Pentecost 18C) TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image prop…
Well worn cobbled path
Well worn cobbled path
by David Perry
Image accompanying reflection Imagining the Lectionary: It's your soul, stupid (Proper 20C / Pentecost 18C) TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image prop…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - One Way to Evade Compassion Fatigue
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - One Way to Evade Compassion Fatigue
by SPCK - John Goldingay
One Way to Evade Compassion Fatigue Psalm 79 The expression “compassion fatigue” has been around for a while. The nature of modern communications media means that we become instantly aware of suffering in different parts of the world, but we cannot deal with all that suffering or…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - On Being Open to the Unexpected
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - On Being Open to the Unexpected
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Being Open to the Unexpected Psalm 113-114 In commenting on Psalm 108, I spoke of a friend’s Pentecostal church that seemed to have no more expectation of God’s acting than evangelical or mainline churches do. But yesterday I sat in the ophthalmologist’s waiting room reading a…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - What about the authors?
Four Gospels, One Jesus - What about the authors?
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
What about the authors? Redaction and composition I cannot always read my favourite newspaper at coffee-time in our staff common room, because someone else has bagged it already! Never mind, there are others around, and reading various papers reveals their different styles and vi…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Those who are burdened with heavy loads
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Those who are burdened with heavy loads
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Those who are burdened with heavy loads The ministry of the ox The keynote for Luke’s portrait of Jesus is set in his initial visit to the synagogue at Nazareth (4.16–30). Luke’s story is three times longer than the equivalent accounts which occur much later in Mark and Matthew (…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book III
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book III
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Book III (Pss. 73-89) Book III opens with “A Psalm of Asaph” (Ps. 73). Like the sons of Korah, Asaph was, according to the book of Chronicles, a temple singer during the reigns of David and Solomon. Fifteen of the seventeen psalms in Book III are attributed to Asaph and the sons …
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book V
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book V
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Book V (Psalms 107-150) Book V of the Psalter opens with Psalm 107, a community hymn celebrating God’s graciousness in delivering the community of faith from exile in Babylon. The psalmist says: “Let the redeemed of YHWH say so, those he redeemed from trouble and gathered in from…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Visions of Destruction
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Visions of Destruction
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Visions of Destruction The progression of Amos’s visions (in 7:1–9:11) serves to communicate to Amos, as well as to his audience, that judgment on the people is inevitable and that God has attempted to act mercifully in the past, forgiving and ceasing to destroy…
Jeremiah for everyone - Does God Really Punish?
Jeremiah for everyone - Does God Really Punish?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Does God Really Punish? At dinner last night, one of our friends was troubled by the way the Old Testament speaks of God’s exercising violent judgment by means of Israel. I tried my usual ploy of asking whether she was as troubled by Jesus’ speaking of millions of people being th…
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 134 18/9/16
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 134 18/9/16
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A weekly resource subscription from Proper 20 theworshipcloud.com Year C In Partnership with SPCK and contributions from BRF Issue 134 Fresh Thoughts For Su nda y 18th September 2016 A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors for this we…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 20 (25) - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 20 (25) - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Proper 20 (25) - Year C Service contains: Hymn: The love of God comes close or God is here! As we His people or Each hour marks a mighty resurrection Prayer: Weeping God Reading: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 Reading: Psalm 79:1-9 Hymn: We lay our broken world or We turn to you, O God of eve…
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