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Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 4 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 4 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 4 1 Kings 18.20–21 [22–29] 30–39 Galatians 1.1–12 Luke 7.1–10 Elijah calls for fire, but the larger story is about rain. Drought has plagued the land. King Ahab is cross with Elijah, blaming the messenger for the message. Elijah, fresh from his triumph in restoring a boy t…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 14 Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - Proper 14 Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 14 Genesis 15.1–6 Hebrews 11.1–3, 8–16 Luke 12.32–40 Faith is sometimes presented as necessarily divorced from evidence. If you can prove something, then you don’t need to have faith to believe it. But that doesn’t seem to be quite what our readings today are saying. They …
Luke for Everyone - The Calling of Zacchaeus
Luke for Everyone - The Calling of Zacchaeus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Calling of Zacchaeus Luke 19.1-10 Sunday schools love Zacchaeus. At least, they love to act out his story and sing about him. The little man who climbs up a tree to see Jesus provides one of the most vivid short stories in the whole Bible. Children can identify with Zacchaeus…
Prayer on faith
Prayer on faith
by John Birch
A prayer on a theme of faith. Extract: Can we really move mountains with a mustard seed of faith? It seems rather a difficult task. Could we maybe start with a molehill and work our way up gradually? But that's not the way it works, is it, Lord? So often you challenge us with the…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday before Advent Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday before Advent Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday before Advent - Year A Meditation on Matthew 24: 14-30 Gaze on a man with a metal detector, slowly inching across a field or a beach, searching for buried treasure. Sometimes he’ll turn up an odd Roman coin, or a Tudor brooch, or a broken pot. But occasionally s…
Anxiety
Anxiety
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Anxiety O God, there are times when I am so afraid of the future, because the older I get, the less there is of it. I cover my fear by activity, by cheerfulness, by boasting of my age; but deep within, I have a fear of the unknown and I cannot hide that from you. Continue…
Blind Bartimaeus
Blind Bartimaeus
by Dave Hopwood
The Great and the Good Bible Ref: Matthew 19-20 & 26; Mark 10 & 14; Luke 17-19; John 11 & 12 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 …
The Fig Tree Withered
The Fig Tree Withered
by Dave Hopwood
Triumph, Tears and Talents Bible Ref: Matthew 21-26; Mark 11-14; Luke 19-22; John 11&12 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 re…
Why Use Parables?
Why Use Parables?
by Dave Hopwood
A Matter of Life and Death Bible Ref: Matthew 8,9,& 11 -13; Mark 3&4; Luke 7&8 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 li…
Lectio Divina - Listening