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Meditation - 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Tears of gratitude Luke 7: 36- 8: 3 I know what Simon’s thinking, I recognise that look. Many respectable people have looked at me like that, but Jesus is different. When he first met me it was obvious he disapproved of my life styl…
Monologue: The Listener
Monologue: The Listener
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: The Listener They think I’m a nobody. Only a servant girl. Always in the background, waiting on them, but never really noticed. Just like a piece of furniture. But they don’t realize how much I see and know and, as long as I keep quiet and do my job, they don’t really …
Monologue/Drama: Standards
Monologue/Drama: Standards
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue/Drama: Standards Have you ever noticed her down the road at number six? And have you seen the state of her net curtains/ Absolutely disgraceful. She ought to be ashamed of herself, She has no self-respect. And her kids are always rolling around and getting themselves di…
Open with God Book - December - World Aids Day (1 December)
Open with God Book - December - World Aids Day (1 December)
by Christine Odell
December – World AIDS Day Calendar of Prayers Reading Mark 1.29-34; 40-44 Loving God, we find disease hard to bear and even harder to accept and understand. Why is it that the freedom of your world involves so much suffering for your children?...
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 1 Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 1 Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 1 - Year A Isaiah 58.1–12 1 Corinthians 2.1–16 Matthew 5.13–20 God is about to give you a present. You are very excited about this because, after all, a present from God is likely to be a particularly fine one. You also hope that God has been listening to the large hints y…
The Accused
The Accused
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation/monologue/drama: The Accused Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Romans 8: 1-11 'The accused'! It felt strange standing there and hearing those words. They were talking about me. Fair enough I suppose, but we never like to hear the truth about ourselves do we? 'The accused'!…
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - The Disciples' Question
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - The Disciples' Question
by BRF - Dick France
The Disciples’ Question It may seem out of proportion to devote a whole study to one question. But the interpretation of the chapter which follows is controversial, and the question to which the following discourse (vv. 5–37) provides the answer is an important key to understandi…
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - No Place for Divorce
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - No Place for Divorce
by BRF - Dick France
No Place for Divorce Divorce—now and then In a society in which divorce has become normal and accepted, Jesus’ robust condemnation of it comes as a shock. But the same was true in his own day. While Jewish authorities debated the grounds for divorce, no-one questioned that divorc…
Monologue: The Failing Fig Tree
Monologue: The Failing Fig Tree
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: The Failing Fig Tree He’s not a bad boss really. Very fair in the way he treats his workers and very hands-on in the way he walks around to see what’s going on and to make sure there are no problems. But there are times when he has had to make harsh judgements, or sort…
Jesus' open love would lead him
Jesus' open love would lead him
by Andrew Pratt
Jesus' open love would lead him into conflict with the law. People then, and now, believing, they know wrong, of this they're sure. Such aggressive condemnation: not the way we should behave, we have rules and regulations plotting how our God can save. Verses 3-5 follow Tune: SAI…
LWPT Meditations - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Psalm 119; 105-112 Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 Romans 8: 1-11 When I was a child I read a very exciting mediaeval adventure story called “The Woods of Windri” by Violet Needham. The main protagonists were a girl called Magdalen, and a sli…
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Luke 19:1-10 Whenever I encounter the story of Zacchaeus I feel like a parrot; not because I want to join Zacchaeus in his sycamore-fig tree, but because – parrot-like – I always say the same thing. I talk about grace.. Created by S…
Mark The People's bible commentary - Alone on the Cross
Mark The People's bible commentary - Alone on the Cross
by BRF - Dick France
Alone on the Cross If to overhear Jesus praying in Gethsemane was to tread on holy ground, surely here we venture into the Holy of Holies, as we hear the only words of Jesus on the cross which Mark has recorded. Indeed, these are the only words of Jesus in this Gospel after his e…
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The DEATH MARCH
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The DEATH MARCH
by BRF - Dick France
The DEATH MARCH MARK 10: 32-34 ‘Were you there…?’ Verse 32 is one of the most vivid pieces of descriptive writing in Mark’s Gospel, and seems to preserve the impression of someone who was there at the time, who was himself part of the tableau this verse presents…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - GOD SO LOVED the WORLD
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - GOD SO LOVED the WORLD
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
GOD SO LOVED the WORLD THINGS As we saw before, this passage can be read either as the end of Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus, or as a separate comment by the evangelist. Who says it, is less important than what it says, for it is one of this gospel’s supreme passages, full of…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 9 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 9 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Ordinary Time Proper 9 Genesis 24.34–38, 42–49, 58–67 Romans 7.15–25a Matthew 11.16–19, 25–30 An American sent me a strange book the other day. Jesus, he argued, was an alcoholic. Roused from his drunkenness by the preaching of John the Baptist, …
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The First Sunday of Lent Year A