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embodying mark - 4 Following the Shepherd
embodying mark - 4 Following the Shepherd
by SPCK - meda a a stamper
4 Following the Shepherd As in the last chapter, so also here Mark begins a story, interrupts it with another, and then comes round to the first story again. The passage we are exploring now follows on from Jesus’ sending of the disciples two by two in 6.7–13 to participate in hi…
Complaints
Complaints
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Complaints Proper 20 Year A Psalm 105: 1-6, 37-45, Exodus 16: 2-15 There was water everywhere. Water in the sea creating a barrier. Water piled high to give a safe escape route. Water in the cloud leading through the desert. Water in the dew, evaporating into flakes. Water …
Fed Up
Fed Up
by Marjorie Dobson
3rd Sunday in Lent & Fifteenth after Pentecost Proper 21 Ordinary 26 year A Exodus 17:1-7 Poem: Fed up! We are roaming this boring old desert. The exodus people, that’s us! We were happy enough when we started, but now folk are making a fuss. The bane of our life is the catering…
Reflection/meditation: Two miracles
Reflection/meditation: Two miracles
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/meditation: Two miracles Is this a contradiction to the temptations? Or is it a confirmation of power for the sake of his disciples? Why would Jesus, having rejected the miraculous turning of stones into bread, now prove just what he could do by feeding five thousand p…
Reflection: What happens when
Reflection: What happens when
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: What happens when...? When, through our greed, the earth’s natural resources are exhausted, are we so arrogant as to expect that our human brains will have solved the problems of energy, water and food supplies in a way that is totally sustainable? When, through our s…
Disciples stories
Disciples stories
by Avis Palmer
Disciples stories Chorus: Christ is the way, and the truth and the life, In every age the same. Listen and pray, in joy and in strife, All ways he speaks your name. Walking along by the lake shore Christ talked with fishermen. "Follow me now, come and explore", Each day he calls …
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 12 Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 12 Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 12 2 Samuel 11.1-15 Ephesians 3.14-21 John 6.1-21 Think of the Lord’s Prayer while reading Ephesians 3. Paul prays to the Father, from whom all fatherhood ‘in heaven and on earth’ is named, that he will give us . . . all things in Christ, because to him belong the power an…
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