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Harmony? - poem
Harmony? - poem
by Marjorie Dobson
Harmony? - poem Trinity Sunday Year A 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13 Dear Lord, how wonderful it would be if we could always agree with one another. It would be even better if we could always live in peace with each other. As for greeting each other with a holy kiss … … 19 June 2011, Tr…
Clouds and Glory Year A - Proper 8 - Year A
Clouds and Glory Year A - Proper 8 - Year A
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 8 Sunday between 26 June & 2 July (after Trinity) Genesis 22. 1-14 Jeremiah 28. 5-9 Psalm.13 Psalm. 89. 1-4, 15-18 (or 8-18) Romans 6. 12-23 Matthew 10. 40-42 Lord, you have freed us from the slavery of sin, and called us to be sons and daughters of God. Help us to work fo…
A strange kind of king
A strange kind of king
by Marjorie Dobson
A strange kind of king - poem Third Sunday after Pentecost Zechariah 9: 9-12 When that king comes riding on a donkey, will he be noticed among the finery and glitz and glamour of a ceremonial state occasion? When, through God’s peacemakers, arms and armoury are decommissioned…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 9 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 9 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 9 2 Kings 5.1–14 Galatians 6.1–16 Luke 10.1–11, 16–20 Going out like lambs amid wolves hardly makes sense in any culture. Only Jesus could propose something so apparently hare-brained yet strangely powerful. Only he, knowing himself to be utterly vulnerable, yet protected …
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - Coping With the Aftermath
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - Coping With the Aftermath
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Coping with the Aftermath 1 Kings 2:1-46 As an undergraduate, I often walked past the Martyrs Memorial, standing where Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer were burned at the stake in Oxford in 1555 and 1556, caught in the conflict between different Christian groups.…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - How Not to Display Accurate Empathy II
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - How Not to Display Accurate Empathy II
by SPCK - John Goldingay
It Takes a Miracle 1 Samuel 1: 12-19a A little while ago a woman came to see me to talk about the way her husband was abusing her. It involved some physical abuse; he had hit her once or twice, but the background was not that he was an inherently violent person or a drunkard. The…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - How To Make War
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - How To Make War
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Make War (or How to Make War Impractical) Deuteronomy 19: 1- 20: 20 Last night at dinner, a friend of mine was hopping mad about a meeting she had attended the previous night, when an ex-marine who had become a pacifist was lamenting the wrongness of the war in Afghanistan…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Get Taken In
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Get Taken In
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Get Taken In JOSHUA 9: 1-21 I have known people who seem to consult God about every detail of their lives, from what to have for dinner to what courses to take next quarter, what college to attend, where to buy a house, or whom to marry. To be honest, I consulted God about…
LWPT Meditations - Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C 1st Kings 21:1-10, 15-21a Psalm 5:1-8 Galatians 2:15-21 Luke 7:36-8:3 When God, through Jesus, offered grace to sinful people, he was not saying that sin was of no consequence. It is; it cost the life of a sinless saviour. No one who…
LWPT Meditations - Remembrance Sunday - Year C