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Meditation - 1st Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 1st Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Lent Year A Join the rest of the world! Matthew 4:1-11 Sometimes, just for the fun of it, I sit on a high point and look down on everyone, like the top of a mountain, or my favourite place, the pinnacle of the temple. I spend hours trying to spot one pe…
A Bit Like Jesus - Morris Cerullo's healing mission to London
A Bit Like Jesus - Morris Cerullo's healing mission to London
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Morris Crullo’s healing mission to London In the early 1990s a great deal of publicity was given to the work of the American evangelist Morris Cerullo. Many in England at the time were unfamiliar with the so-called Prosperity Gospel, according to which if you are …
A Bit Like Jesus - Humility and justice
A Bit Like Jesus - Humility and justice
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Humility and justice He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: ‘Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, wa…
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent year C
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 4th Sunday in Lent Year C The Father’s Love Luke 15: 1-3, 11b-32 His father just couldn’t wait: He saw his son coming from far off, Nothing was going to stop him, He’d been waiting a long time for this moment... created by David Middleton on behalf of LWPT (Leaders o…
A Bit Like Jesus - Whose faith?
A Bit Like Jesus - Whose faith?
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 5 Faith Whose faith? When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. So many gathered around that there was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door; and he was speaking the word to them. Then some people came, bringing to hi…
A Bit Like Jesus - Learning from hypocrisy
A Bit Like Jesus - Learning from hypocrisy
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 2 Hypocrisy Learning from hypocrisy Gene Robinson, the elected Bishop of New Hampshire, was not invited to attend the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Bishops. It was considered that his committed but gay partnership would make his presence too offensive to others within the Angli…
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing and Compassion
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing and Compassion
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 3 Compassion Healing and compassionAs they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. There were two blind men sitting by the roadside. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted, ‘Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!’ The crowd sternly ordered them to b…
Meditation - Sunday Before Lent Year C
Meditation - Sunday Before Lent Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – Sunday before Lent Year C The Journey to Prayer Luke 9:28-36 The path is steep and strewn with loose stones and rocks. Often we have to use our hands to pull ourselves up. When Jesus asked us to come and pray with him, We didn’t imagine it would be this difficult; No…
A Bit Like Jesus - Preface
A Bit Like Jesus - Preface
by SPCK - Robin Gill
Preface The picture on the cover by the Indian artist Jyoti Sahi captures wonderfully well what this short Lent Book is struggling to achieve. I bought the original collage on a visit to his ashram near Bangalore. He depicts the Parable of the Sower. Yet it is an Indian Jesus who…
And i looked as i led
And i looked as i led
by Marjorie Dobson
Meditation/poem: Vision - And I looked as I led worship Fifth Sunday in Lent Ezekiel 37: 1-14 And I looked as I led worship and saw the dried and brittle bones of the scattered few before me and there was no life. Too old, too desiccated, too worn out, or lived out ever to be abl…
Reflections for Holy Week - Jesus Wept
Reflections for Holy Week - Jesus Wept
by Michaela Youngson
Jesus Wept Luke 19.28-48 The fresh green of Olivet soon gives way to the barren waste of Golgotha and somewhere between the two is the City. When he came in sight of the city, Jesus wept over it. The city in which dreams are born, wealth grows, mornings bring the luxurious cries …
Reflections for Holy Week - Jar and Nard
Reflections for Holy Week - Jar and Nard
by Michaela Youngson
Jar and Nard Matthew 26.6-13 A jar, fit to hold something precious, broken open to allow its contents to flow in scandalous, intimate, tactile generosity. The pot is royal purple and holy blue, with silver strands that hint at wealth. The colour of death, the colour of lent...
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation –2nd Sunday in Lent Year C Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 Psalm 27 Philippians 3:17- 4:1 Luke 13:31-35 In the Old Testament, we come across people doing things very differently from what we do both in daily life and in worship – offering animals (Leviticus 1:1-17), pouring oil…
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 5th Sunday in Lent Year C Isaiah 43:16-21 Psalm 126 Philippians 3;4b-14 John 12:1-8 Jesus anointed for burial by Mary Our God makes impossible things happen; this is the message of the lectionary readings for today. For the nation of Judah in captivity in Babylon, Go…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 1st Sunday in Lent Year C Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 Romans 10:8b-13 Luke 4:1-13 In the lectionary readings for today we have God’s promise that when we call upon him he will answer us. This was impressed upon the Israelites after they left Egypt and were…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Lent - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday in Lent - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 3rd Sunday in Lent Year C Isaiah 55:1-9 Psalm 63:1-8 1st Corinthians 10:1-13 Luke 13:1-9 There is comfort, together with two warnings, in today’s Bible passages. That God loves his children is abundantly clear. He invites them freely to feast with him (Isaiah 55:1-2…
LENT MEDITATION 3 Ah! Lord, with trembling I confess