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Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Trinity Sunday Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Trinity Sunday - Year A Isaiah 40.12–17, 27–31 2 Corinthians 13.11–13 Matthew 28.16–20 The doctrine of the Trinity used to be caricatured as a piece of irrelevant theory: learned people using human philosophy to make simple things overly complex. The charge often rebounds on …
LWPT Meditations - Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A Genesis 12:1-9 Psalm 33:1-12 Romans 4:13-25 Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 There had been the Fall (Genesis 3), the Flood (Genesis 6) and the disastrous Tower of Babel (Genesis 11). Then came a man whom God could call “friend” – Abram, lat…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year B
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Lent Year B Genesis 9: 8-17 Psalm 25: 1-10 1st Peter 3: 18-22 Mark 1: 9-15 In seven short verses the gospel-writer Mark establishes the identity of the Messiah, has him baptised, tempted and beginning to proclaim the good news with a call to repent beca…
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 Psalm 50 Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Luke 12:32-40 “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 1:1). Faith is precious because it enables us to hope and trust in God even when – to …
friends, FOES and families - If any of you is without sin: the woman taken in adultery
friends, FOES and families - If any of you is without sin: the woman taken in adultery
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
If any of you is without sin: The woman taken in adultery John 8.1-11 Merciful Father, may I never judge another, for I only know part of their story. Years ago the story of the woman taken in adultery might have sounded archaic, an example of harsher times, and unconnected with …
Prince of Peace
Prince of Peace
by Ian Harris
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 proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Day of Pentecost Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Day of Pentecost Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Day of Pentecost Genesis 11.1–9 Acts 2.1–21 John 14.8–17 The story of the Tower of Babel continues the theology of sin that is found in Genesis 2 and 3, in the story of the Fall. Eve and Adam’s desire to seize for themselves a knowledge that properly belongs to God alone is at th…
52 Reflections on Faith - Seeing God: a way of life
52 Reflections on Faith - Seeing God: a way of life
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Seeing God: a way of life Where do you ‘see God’? Where do you experience God? Where is God most real to you? There are probably particular times in your life when you sense God’s presence more than you normally do—special places where you feel close to God. You might have had a …
John for Everyone part 2 - Your Heart Will Rejoice
John for Everyone part 2 - Your Heart Will Rejoice
by SPCK - N T Wright
Your Hearts Will Rejoice John 16.12-22 How do you talk about things that are not just out of the ordinary but that take you into a whole new world? One way of doing it is through music. That’s why some of the greatest songs are love poems. Faced with the glory and thrill of human…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Parable of the Weeds Explained
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Parable of the Weeds Explained
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Weeds Explained Matthew 13.36-43 I have on my desk a photograph of a sunset. The sun is going down over one of my favourite countryside scenes, lighting up the sky above and silhouetting, on the skyline, hills I have loved since boyhood. The sun is mostly behin…
Trinity
Trinity
by Andy Lindley
The father points to the son, and the son the spirit, and the spirit the father.... John 14:10 I am in the Father, and the Father is in me.THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights rese…
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