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Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 1: FRIDAY Matthew 9; focused on 9.9 –17 Those of us who now use computers take it for granted that they will have a large internal memory. This is stored on what is called a ‘hard disk’, as opposed to what we used to have, back in the 1980s, which was a ‘floppy disk’, which …
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 2 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 2 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: FRIDAY Matthew 12.22–50; focused on 12.27–32 27 Just in case anyone thought that the vision of a gentle, humble Messiah meant that he would be a pushover for every evil power that came along, the present passage sets the balance straight. One of the things everybody knew …
Lent for Everyone Year A - Sunday: First Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Sunday: First Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: SUNDAY Psalm 121 1 I must have sung this Psalm a hundred, perhaps a thousand, times before I stopped to think about the famous first verse. (I have seen it carved above doors and mantelpieces in mountainous parts of the country, sometimes in Latin.) ‘I lift my eyes to …
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: First Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: First Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 1: THURSDAY Matthew 8; focused on 8.23 –34 Let’s go on that boat and think what it was like. It’s a small lake, as lakes go, but sudden storms come sweeping down from the hills. All of us in the boat know of people who’ve been drowned there, of whole boats that have been swa…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: TUESDAY Matthew 10.16 – 42; focused on 10.16 –25 Let’s stand on the edge of the crowd and listen as Jesus gives his twelve disciples these next instructions. Some of the Twelve are looking decidedly uncomfortable, but there’s nothing they can do about it. Jesus has called…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: Third Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: Third Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 3: THURSDAY Matthew 16; focused on 16.21–28 The unique city of Venice is now mainly a tourist destination. People come from all over the world to be amazed at its canals, its tiny side-streets, and the wonderful churches, mansions and art galleries. But in the days before ai…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 4: WEDNESDAY Matthew 21.1–22; focused on 21.1–17 We reach Palm Sunday in Matthew’s story ten days before we get there in our own Lenten journey. It’s just as well. There is so much packed between Palm Sunday and Good Friday that it’s important to get advance notice of what’s…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 5: FRIDAY Matthew 26.1–13 Time to become a fly on the wall again, this time in a little house just two or three miles east of Jerusalem. If you’re in the old city of Jerusalem first thing in the morning, the chances are that when the sun rises it will come up right through B…
Where are you God, when darkness shrouds each day
Where are you God, when darkness shrouds each day
by Andrew Pratt
Where are you God, when darkness shrouds each day Fifth Sunday in Lent Psalm 130; John 11: 1 – 45 Where are you God, when darkness shrouds each day, when mists obscure my path, I see no way? Where are you God amidst this urban sprawl when roaring traffic leaves a smoky pall? Wher…
Three disciples saw God's glory
Three disciples saw God's glory
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Three disciples saw God’s glory Last Sunday before Lent year A Matthew 17: 1 – 9 Three disciples saw God’s glory, sunlight pouring from Christ’s face, shielding eyes are almost blinded, shaken by God’s present grace. Was it just imagination, was that Moses there as well? Th…
Wild wilderness pathetic desolation
Wild wilderness pathetic desolation
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Wild wilderness, pathetic desolation First Sunday in Lent Year A Matthew 4: 1 – 11 Wild wilderness, pathetic desolation, as Jesus walked, then rested for the night, for forty days his strength was tried and tested, for forty days he sifted wrong and right. He woke to hunger…
The Samaritan Woman at the Well
The Samaritan Woman at the Well
by Dave Hopwood
Early Days Bible Ref: Matthew 3 & 4; Mark 1; Luke 2-4; John 1-4 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking tex…
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 206
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 206
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 - Proper 19 (24) - Year C