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Dogs and crumbs
Dogs and crumbs
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: Dogs and crumbs Proper 15 year A Matthew 15: 21-28 Oh yes, my daughter’s well now, thank you. She’s never looked back since she was cured by that Jewish healer. I know! It was very strange wasn’t it? I mean, to see him there and to know that we’d heard so much about hi…
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith needs sharpening daily on the grindstone of love (Proper 9A / Ordinary 14A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith needs sharpening daily on the grindstone of love (Proper 9A / Ordinary 14A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith needs sharpening daily on the grindstone of love (Proper 9A / Ordinary 14A) Text to accompany image “Faith needs sharpening daily on the grindstone of love” Faith gets blunt very easily and very quickly, almost without our noticing that it is…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Yahweh’s Covenant and Our Covenant
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Yahweh’s Covenant and Our Covenant
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Yahweh’s Covenant and Our Covenant Psalm 111 I noted in connection with Psalm 105 that this Thanksgiving/ Advent we are suggesting to the people in our church that they think about what they have to thank God for over the past year and what they might make a covenant about for th…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Second Sunday of Lent Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Second Sunday of Lent Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Lent Genesis 17.1–7, 15, 16 Romans 4.13–25 Mark 8.31–38 The Old Testament readings for Lent this year are encouraging us to think about covenants. Last week we had the covenant with Noah, this week we have Abraham, and next week – let me give you a sneak prev…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 3 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 3 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 3 Isaiah 43.18–25 2 Corinthians 1.18–22 Mark 2.1–12 Our capacity to respond wrongly to God is endless. All three of today’s readings focus primarily on the generosity of God, but they also all have as a backdrop the stubborn stupidity of our response. The miracle that Jes…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Back to Peter
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Back to Peter
by SPCK - N T Wright
Back to Peter Acts 9.32-42 ‘When I look out of the window from where I am sitting, I have two quite different types of view. If I stretch my eyes and look through the trees (it is still spring, and the leaves have not yet blocked the view) I can see the ruined castle, standing on…
Hebrews for Everyone - Better Ministry, Better Covenant
Hebrews for Everyone - Better Ministry, Better Covenant
by SPCK - N T Wright
Better Ministry, Better Covenant Hebrews 8.1-6 When my sons were little, we gave them a game they could play at home. It was a type of football; except that you played it on a table top, with plastic figures an inch or two high. You had to flick them with your finger, so that the…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - A Year in Corinth
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - A Year in Corinth
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Year in Corinth Acts 18.1-11 This morning, knowing I was going to be thinking about Corinth, I helped myself to a big bowl of Greek yoghurt and honey for breakfast. It still takes me straight back to the little streetside cafe where, in the early 1990s, I first tasted that simp…
Revelation for Everyone - A Second Monster
Revelation for Everyone - A Second Monster
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Second Monster Revelation 13.11-18 I sat in the room, surrounded by shelf after shelf of old books. It felt good. When we took a break from the seminar (it was in a hotel in a large American city), I got up and walked over to the nearest bookcase to inspect what treats it might…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Abraham is the Father of All Believers
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Abraham is the Father of All Believers
by SPCK - N T Wright
Abraham Is the Father of All Believers ROMANS 4.13-17 I had an angry email today from a Jewish Christian who objected strongly to something I had said, very cautiously, about the current problems in the Middle East. (I lived and worked in Jerusalem some years ago, and I still hav…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Abraham the Father of Both Uncircumcised and Circumcised
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Abraham the Father of Both Uncircumcised and Circumcised
by SPCK - N T Wright
Abraham the Father of Both Uncircumcised and Circumcised ROMANS 4.9-12 One of the most solemn moments of a wedding ceremony comes when the bride and groom give or exchange rings. I have taken many weddings in my time. I have also stood there as a proud father for the weddings of …
John for Everyone part 2 - Another Helper
John for Everyone part 2 - Another Helper
by SPCK - N T Wright
Another Helper John 14.12-21 ‘If only we’d been there when Jesus was around!’ people often say. ‘It would have been so much easier. He would have explained everything to us, and told us what to do. And he’d have been such an encouragement. Whatever we were doing, he’d be positive…
The Pastoral Letters - Appointing Elders
The Pastoral Letters - Appointing Elders
by SPCK - N T Wright
Appointing Elders Titus 1.5-9 The worst moment was when we realized the pilot had no idea what to do next. We were travelling in a light aircraft, going north from Pretoria in South Africa into Zimbabwe, or Rhodesia as it was then called. There were five of us in the plane: the p…
Hebrews for Everyone - Are You Ready for Solid Food?
Hebrews for Everyone - Are You Ready for Solid Food?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Are You Ready for Solid Food? Hebrews 5.11-14 I saw in the newspaper this morning a delightful photograph of a Nepalese royal baby. The Kingdom of Nepal suffered a severe blow a few years ago when a member of the royal family shot dead several of his relatives. Now, with a new ge…
The Pastoral Letters - Beware of False Teaching!