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LWPT Meditations - Sunday before Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Sunday before Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Sunday before Lent Year C Exodus 34:29-35 Psalm 99 2nd Corinthians 3:12- 4:2 Luke 9:28-36 In the children’s story “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by CS Lewis, the point is made early on in the account, that Aslan – the lion who represents the Lord Jesus – is “…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Nehemiah 8 v 1-3, 5-6, 8-10 Psalm 19 Luke 4 v 14-21 God’s Word is “living and active” (Hebrews 4:12) if we allow it to work in our lives. For those of us whose Bible-reading has become a duty rather than a joy, for those who “tun…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 3rd Sunday in Lent Year C Isaiah 55:1-9 Psalm 63:1-8 1st Corinthians 10:1-13 Luke 13:1-9 There is comfort, together with two warnings, in today’s Bible passages. That God loves his children is abundantly clear. He invites them freely to feast with him (Isaiah 55:1-2…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Psalm 36: 1-5 Isaiah 62: 1-5,10 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11 In chapter 62 of his prophecy, Isaiah turns his attention to Jerusalem – Zion – the capital city of Judah. During his lifetime, Isaiah had witnessed the decline of Jerusalem,…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation –2nd Sunday in Lent Year C Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 Psalm 27 Philippians 3:17- 4:1 Luke 13:31-35 In the Old Testament, we come across people doing things very differently from what we do both in daily life and in worship – offering animals (Leviticus 1:1-17), pouring oil…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – First Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Isaiah 43:1-7 Psalm 29 Acts 8:14-17 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 When the Holy Spirit descended on the Lord Jesus, something new began. Worshippers of Almighty God already knew about his Spirit. It was the Spirit who had hovered over the w…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Lent Year C Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 Romans 10:8b-13 Luke 4:1-13 In the lectionary readings for today we have God’s promise that when we call upon him he will answer us. This was impressed upon the Israelites after they left Egypt and were…
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday
by Susan Thorne
26 May 2013 LWPT Meditation Trinity Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Psalm 8 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 It happens every year. The preaching plan for May and June is issued, and someone is heard to complain about being lumbered with Trinity Sunday. “I preached at the same church last year o…
LWPT Meditations - Day of Pentecost - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Day of Pentecost - Year C
by Susan Thorne
19 May 2013 LWPT Meditation Pentecost Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104:24-34,35b Romans 8:14-17 John 14:8-17 I grew up in a church that referred to the Holy Spirit as “it”, and eventually I became a member of a cult that reinforced that understanding. What they called “holy spirit” was just…
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
12 May 2013 LWPT Meditation Acts 16:16-34 Psalm 97 Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17 John 17:20-26 “Believe in the Lord Jesus”, so said the apostle Paul when a man asked what he “must do to be saved” (Acts 16:31). What must we do to be saved? We have to do nothing but believe. As soon a…
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
05 May 2013 LWPT Meditation Acts 16:9-15 Psalm 67 Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5 John 5:1-9 If we read the context of the passage in Revelation in today’s lectionary, the picture that the writer gives us of the New Jerusalem/heaven/eternal life is complicated and disturbingly unfamili…
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 5th Sunday in Lent Year C Isaiah 43:16-21 Psalm 126 Philippians 3;4b-14 John 12:1-8 Jesus anointed for burial by Mary Our God makes impossible things happen; this is the message of the lectionary readings for today. For the nation of Judah in captivity in Babylon, Go…
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Sixth Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 6th Sunday in Lent Year C Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 Philippians 2:5-11 Luke 19:28-40 When Jesus made arrangements for a colt to be available for him to ride into Jerusalem at the start of his last week on earth, he was planning a demonstration of royal powe…
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Easter Day Year C Acts 10:34-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 1st Corinthians 15:19-26 Luke 24:1-12 When Luke wrote his gospel, he had in mind that Jesus had been a man, living on this earth like any other human, and he wrote to make the good news available and accessible to …
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 2nd Sunday of Easter Year C Acts 5:27-32 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 John 20:19-31 We call him “Doubting Thomas” for a single mistake that he made. Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, was not there when the Lord appeared to the rest of them after his resurrection…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 3rd Sunday of Easter Year C Acts 9:1-6 Psalm 30 Revelation 5:11-14 John 21:1-9 God is great at reversals; he can change disaster into rejoicing, mourning into gladness, death into life. Many of the Old Testament stories tell of eleventh-hour escapes, or of impossibl…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 4th Sunday of Easter Year C Psalm 23 Revelation 7:9-17 John 10:22-30 We are so familiar with the story of Jesus as the Good Shepherd that there is a danger that we will miss the deeper implications. I remember a picture on the wall at my Sunday school, showing a blon…
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year C