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JOHN: The people's bible commentary - Do you love me more than this?
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - Do you love me more than this?
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Do you Love me More than These? Breakfast is finished, but the lingering smell of the charcoal fire is a potent reminder that something is still hanging around. Peter showed willing by jumping into the sea to greet Jesus and leaping to get more fish. But Jesus has to take the ini…
The Act of Prayer Year C - Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C
The Act of Prayer Year C - Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C
by BRF - John Birch
Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C Opening prayer The Bible gives us a wonderful image of God as shepherd, and in some parts of the world the enduring bond between the shepherd and his sheep has changed little since biblical times. It’s the dependence of the sheep on their shepherd f…
52 Reflections on Faith - Jesus the teacher: words and deeds
52 Reflections on Faith - Jesus the teacher: words and deeds
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Jesus the teacher: words and deeds We can probably all remember particular teachers we had at school. Some stick in the mind as ‘good teachers’, but we probably remember others because we didn’t like them, got on the wrong side of them or were hopeless at their subjects…
Poem: Sheep?
Poem: Sheep?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Sheep? We’re not too happy about being called sheep. Sheep have the image of being woolly and warm, but not too bright. Sheep blindly follow each other and their minder, wherever they are led. Sheep don’t seem to have very much going for them – not in a world where individu…
There is a season - Harvest Liturgy
There is a season - Harvest Liturgy
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
HARVEST LITURGY Unless a grain of wheat falls… As we gather, we bring our offerings of food to the altar, then go to our seats. When the service is ready to begin, the reader goes to the lectern. Reading Genesis 1.26 –31a Reader….. A reading from the book of Genesis. Then God sa…
Simply Jesus - The Hurricane
Simply Jesus - The Hurricane
by SPCK - N T Wright
The hurricane The gale of Rome and the high-pressure system of Jewish hopes. It takes one more wind to make the perfect storm. And, as in the original Massachusetts disaster, this one was of a different order altogether. To understand this great cyclone, this tropical hurricane, …
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 1st Timothy 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-10 If we do not believe that we are infinitely precious to God, we will miss the significance of so much that is in the scriptures. The doctrine of God’s grace focuses on the fact…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B