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Imagining the Lectionary: Bear fruits worthy of repentance (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Bear fruits worthy of repentance (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Bear fruits worthy of repentance (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “Bear fruits worthy of repentance ” Bear fruits worthy of repentance. (Luke 3:8) Winter strips everything back and we are left to focus on what really matters. The hedgerows are d…
Imagining the Lectionary: The crowds came out (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: The crowds came out (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: The crowds came out (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “The crowds came out ” How are we to picture the crowds of people who left their homes and made their way out to the Jordan to be baptised by John the Baptist? One striking piece that I saw in…
The crowds came out
The crowds came out
by David Perry
Image accompanying reflection Imagining the Lectionary: the crowds came out (Advent 3C) Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which is 4054 x 2872 pixels and 426KB The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduc…
Imagining the Lectionary: Kairos Moments (Advent 1C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Kairos Moments (Advent 1C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Kairos Moments (Advent 1C) Reflection accompanying image “Advent Kairos Moments” As the sky lightens at daybreak this is the moment in which the sun penetrates the chilly shroud of mist and bathes the landscape in milky light. Chronological time become…
Imagining the Lectionary: I will gather you together and bring you home again (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: I will gather you together and bring you home again (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: I will gather you together and bring you home again (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “Footprints on the beach leading away from a storm ” On that day I will gather you together and bring you home again (Zephaniah 3:20) John said to the crowds th…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Third Sunday of Advent Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Third Sunday of Advent Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Third Sunday of Advent - Year A Isaiah 35:1–10 James 5:7–10 Matthew 11:2–11 In last Sunday’s Gospel reading (Matthew 3. 1–12), John the Baptist arrives to herald the beginning of Jesus’s adult ministry. He is incredibly rude to the people who flock to hear him preach their ju…
Poem/Meditation: Crazy, ragged, ranting prophet
Poem/Meditation: Crazy, ragged, ranting prophet
by Andrew Pratt
Poem/Meditation: Crazy, ragged, ranting prophet Crazy, ragged, ranting prophet, least that's how some people saw him, eating locusts and wild honey, sweeping hypocrites before him. Standing by the raging river, raging at unrighteousness forces, calling weak and powerful to him, s…
Searching seeking people clamoured
Searching seeking people clamoured
by Andrew Pratt
Second Sunday of Advent Year A Matthew 3: 1 – 12Hymn: Searching, seeking, people clamoured, Searching, seeking, people clamoured, heard the noise and saw the crowd. Saw the baptist by the river, calling clear and calling loud. First attracted, then confounded... Andrew Pratt (b…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 15 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 15 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 15 Proverbs 9-1-6 Ephesians 4. 25-5.2 John 6: 35, 41-51 ‘You are what you eat’, so the saying goes. Our modern western culture is wise to the fact that food is not all the same, and will not all be good for you. We are now very anxious about food additives, very aware of p…
See the husks fly through the air
See the husks fly through the air
by Andrew Pratt
See the husks fly through the air, feel the all consuming fire, see the day of God is near, see the flames are licking higher. That's the image John conveys, bringing people to their knees. Is it penitence or fear, stimulates their present pleas? And within this time and place, a…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Here Comes the Sequel