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LWPT Meditations - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 2 Thessalonians 3: 6-13 I wonder how many churches will include the reading from 2nd Thessalonians in today’s service? It is the epistle for the day, but to read these words, or at least to read them without further comment, would b…
friends, FOES and families - Cain was very angry: and his face downcast: Cain and Abel
friends, FOES and families - Cain was very angry: and his face downcast: Cain and Abel
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Cain was very angry, and his face downcast: Cain and Abel Genesis 4 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith. (1 Peter 5.8 – 9)...
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 11 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 11 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 11 Luke 10: 38-42 Gaze at Martha, inviting Jesus in for a rest and a meal. How she wants to please him! She is bustling about humming quietly to herself with pleasure. She dashes round with the duster, then sets the cushions straight. Next she potters in the kitchen, getti…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday before Advent Luke 22: 5-19 Gaze on the Temple again. This time look up at all the gold that burns in the sunlight, and shouts out its wealth. Look at the gigantic bunches of golden grapes adorning a central archway – each grape cluster as tall as a man. Was Her…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The First Sunday of Lent Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The First Sunday of Lent Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The First Sunday of Lent Deuteronomy 26.1–11 Romans 10.8b–13 Luke 4.1–13 Proust’s great theme is that without memory there is no character or understanding. One of the things that is so appealing about his work is that the small memories are at least as significant as the huge …
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 20 - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 20 - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 20 Holy Father, give us the spirit of contentment and peace, that we may enjoy who we are and what we have. Help us not only to appreciate what you have given us, but to be gracious and generous to others. May the world’s goods be neither hoarded nor squandered but used fo…
A Modern Allergory
A Modern Allergory
by Roger Price
This is an exploration of the nature of growth. It looks at a pair of leaves just emerging from the ground, classified by one viewer as 'a weed', and examines the potential in allowing growth to occur. It ends with on a cautionary note - because there are always unexpected conseq…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Sacred Inefficiency
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Sacred Inefficiency
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Sacred Inefficiency Deuteronomy 24: 1-22 Just once in my life I had to give someone the sack because we needed to economize in the seminary and we saw a post we could terminate without too much loss to the enterprise’s efficiency. The person had worked for the seminary for man…
Mark for Everyone - The Parable of the Tenants
Mark for Everyone - The Parable of the Tenants
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 12.1–12 The Parable of the Tenants... ...Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice is normally listed as a comedy. The main characters all end up with their problems resolved. But the last two or three times I have seen the play I have come away feeling tha…
Exodus and Leviticus - Be Holy as I am Holy
Exodus and Leviticus - Be Holy as I am Holy
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Be Holy as I am Holy LEVITICUS : 19: 1- 18 Today’s newspaper reports on the release from a detention center in Iraq of a twenty-seven-year-old man, after eighteen months there. He was given a letter to say that his case had been concluded and the occupation authorities had decide…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - She's a Moabite, for Goodness' Sake!
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - She's a Moabite, for Goodness' Sake!
by SPCK - John Goldingay
She’s a Moabite, for Goodness’ Sake RUTH 1:19b-2: 9 I was just reading the story of a man called Maxo who died in the earthquake in Haiti a couple of weeks ago when his house collapsed on top of him. His cousin in New York called Maxo a hustler, but his story showed how he was al…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Sour Hour of Prayer