Lectionary 23/06/2024
- Proper 7 (12) - Year B
Lectionary Readings
1 Samuel 17:1a, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49
1 Samuel 17:57-58, 18:1-5, 10-16
Tags
Mark 4:35-41
BigRead 2012 Housegroup material Week 2
BigRead 2012 Housegroup material Week 2
by BigBible
Week 2: Echoes Nibbles: Think back over the previous week. Did you ‘eat your chocolate’, e.g. find your labyrinth? What do you think of when someone says the word ‘echo’? Do you have memories of echoes? You may enjoy: http://youtu.be/ebFBYUyDItA Main: You can’t beat the old stori…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 1: FRIDAY... ...I suspect, of course, that if we’d sat these poets down in a cool, easy moment and asked them, ‘Did you really think God was asleep?’, they might have said, ‘Well, no; he is God, after all; but it certainly seemed as though he’d …
Mark for Everyone - Jesus Calms the Storm
Mark for Everyone - Jesus Calms the Storm
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 4.35–41 Jesus Calms the Storm... ...It isn’t only boats that are in danger on the Sea of Galilee. To this day, the car parks on the western shore have signs warning drivers of what happens in high winds. The sea can get very rough very quickly, and big wave…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 7 Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 7 Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 7 1 Samuel 17.[1a, 4-11, 19-23] 32-49 2 Corinthians 6.1-13 Mark 4.35-41 Right from the start in Mark, Jesus is up against it. Tempted by Satan in the wilderness; shrieked at by benighted souls in the synagogue; criticized by the self-appointed religious experts. Now the se…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 7 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 7 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 7 Mark 4: 35-41 Gaze on the sea in stormy weather. Hear the roar of the gale crashing against the sails at full stretch and the creak of the feeble wooden hull. Watch the disciples, bailing out in vain. The rain is lashing their faces, soaking their clothes. Hear the fear …
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 7 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 7 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 7 Job 38: 1-11 2 Corinthians 6: 1-13 Mark 4: 35-41 In today’s readings we have two different, and potentially incompatible, views of how God works. The reading from Job and the reading from the Gospel seem to have one vision, which is of the colossal and unquestionable pow…
Prayer: Storms of life
Prayer: Storms of life
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Storms of life When the winds of change drive us in directions that are alien to us: God, keep us on a steady course towards the goal you have set for us. When our lives are rocked by circumstances beyond out control: God, keep us from sinking beyond our depth. When storm…
Hymn: A perfect storm, as Galilee
Hymn: A perfect storm, as Galilee
by Andrew Pratt
A perfect storm, as Galilee became a foaming maelstrom, the boats were spun and tossed like corks, no more a sluggish doldrum. And through it all their friend had dozed, the chaos found him sleeping while panic reigned, fear took control, as crashing waves were sweeping. A desp…
LWPT Meditations - Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B 1st Samuel 17: 32-49 Psalm 9: 9-20 2nd Corinthians 6: 1-13 Mark 4: 35-41 When we are faced with apparently insurmountable problems, as Christians we can have full confidence in our God and his saving grace; this is the clear message …
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 - The bounding lion
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The bounding lion
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
The bounding lion Mark’s style, structure and narrative technique Whenever Aslan does appear in the Narnia stories, he dashes from place to place as he is needed in great leaps and bounds: ‘he rushes on and on, never missing his footing, never hesitating’ (The Lion, the Witch and…
Mark The People's Commentary - Storm at Sea
Mark The People's Commentary - Storm at Sea
by BRF - Dick France
Storm at Sea In 1986 the complete hull of a cedar-wood fishing boat from about the first century ad was discovered buried in the mud by the shore of the Lake of Galilee. It is probably typical of the boats in use in Jesus’ time. It is just over 8 metres long by 2.35 metres wide a…
52 Reflections on Faith - Jesus and Healing: The New Creation
52 Reflections on Faith - Jesus and Healing: The New Creation
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
10 Jesus and Healing I wonder if you’ve ever played any part in healing somebody. Have you ever had a role in helping somebody become whole? I don’t mean ‘Have you ever performed a miracle?’ as much as ‘Do you think in terms of healing and behave as if healing were possible?’ Do …
Fresh Thoughts for Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 69 21/06/15
Fresh Thoughts for Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 69 21/06/15
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third after Trinity Proper 7 (12) - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third after Trinity Proper 7 (12) - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third after Trinity Proper 7 (12) - Year B Service contains: Hymn: God is love: let heaven adore him or Within this place where your people have worshipped Reading: Psalm 133 Prayer: For families Hymn: Jesus, Lord, we look to thee or Broken people, many pieces Reading: 1 Samuel 1…
50 Praise, Pray and Play Sessions - Peace | Fruit of the Spirit
50 Praise, Pray and Play Sessions - Peace | Fruit of the Spirit
by BRF - Rona Orme
Peace is much more than the absence of noise or activity. Jesus spoke eloquently of the peace he gives (John 14:27) that would help people not to worry or be afraid. This session focuses on Jesus saying, 'Peace, be still' to the storm. Session aim To experience something of the p…
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 225
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 225
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
Vine Video - Reflection - Play to Your Strengths - Tim Baker