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Meditation - The Epiphany Year C
Meditation - The Epiphany Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – The Epiphany Year C Matthew 2: 1-12 Wise men came from the East … I wonder where they came from? I wonder who they were? Did they know each other? Did they meet on the way?... Created by david Midleton on behalf of LWPT (Leaders of Worship and Preachers Trust) for mo…
GOD's rich Pattern - A new way of communicating
GOD's rich Pattern - A new way of communicating
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
A new way of communicating The media attention that I have just mentioned took me to places of which I would never have dreamt. A friend, who had multiple sclerosis, ran a regional branch of the Muriel Braddick Foundation. This provided taped music, Christian thought and personal…
Meditation - 6th Sunday of Lent Year C
Meditation - 6th Sunday of Lent Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 6th Sunday in Lent – Palm Sunday Year C The morning after the night before Luke 22: 14-23: 56 They came for him like thieves in the night. O yes, he knew it was going to happen. He made that abundantly clear at supper that night. Of course we didn’t really understand…
Meditation - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Obey and trust Luke 17: 11-19 They stood some distance off and shouted at Jesus, I’m not really sure what they expected from him, but these ten lepers clearly recognised Jesus’ authority, as they cried out, Jesus, Master, have mercy …
Meditation - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C New benchmarks Luke 14: 1-14 We gather together every Sabbath for lunch after synagogue in different peoples houses, a kind of Sabbath Day Luncheon Club. Anyone is welcome, and we each try to bring a guest so we never know from one S…
Meditation - 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Signs of the Times Luke 12: 49-56 There are some things we want to know and can’t, and there are some things we should recognise and don’t. That’s what Jesus seemed to be saying today. It’s all very confusing. And Jesus gets so exasp…
Meditation - 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C A real turn around Luke 16: 1-13 How can a bad person be a good example? That’s what I want to know, Jesus. I must say I’m not a little surprised by the story you told today, about the shrewd manager. Don’t you think you might be mis…
Meditation - 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Walk the Walk Luke 14: 1-14 Jesus asked me how long I’d been like this: 18 years I told him. He said I must feel like a prisoner, trapped in my own body, not able to go about my normal life. I said after 18 years I’ve got used to it;…
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…
A Bit Like Jesus - Jesus and the disabled woman
A Bit Like Jesus - Jesus and the disabled woman
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 2 Hypocrisy Jesus and the disabled woman Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her,…
Meditation - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
Meditation - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
by David Middleton
Meditation – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B Glorious Technicolour Mark 10: 46-52 Blind Bartimaeus they used to call me. Not any more! Not since I called out to Jesus. ‘Jesus, Son of David!’ I cried out, ‘Have mercy on me.’ They tried to shut me up, but I was having none of it,…
Meditation - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Touching the untouchable Luke 19: 1-10 He was a collaborator, that’s what everyone was saying: He was devout and highly influential … in the Roman tax collecting business at least. But he was a collaborator, that’s what he was, a tra…
Meditation - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
Meditation - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
by David Middleton
Meditation – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B Sorry Jesus, which widow? Mark 12: 38-44 I love watching, I could while away the hours, Observing life; The people in the market place, Going about their daily business. Shopping for the family, Thinking about tonight’s dinner. Looki…
Meditation - 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C I was just one of the crowd Luke 10: 1-11. 16-20 I panic when Jesus is looking for volunteers! It’s not that I don’t want to help, I just get so nervous not knowing what I’m going to have to do, so my heart sank when he picked me. I …
Meditation - 4th Sunday of Easter Time Year A
Meditation - 4th Sunday of Easter Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- 4th Sunday of Easter Time Year B What’s in it for him? John 10: 1-13 I’ve been listening to Jesus quite a bit recently; whenever I can get away from work I have gone to find him, I’m quite intrigued by what he has to say, but there has always been this nagging doubt,…
Meditation - 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B