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Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C) Reflection accompanying image “You have kept the good wine until now ” In St John's Gospel emptiness and fulfilment are the polar opposites which frame the first public disclosure of God's amazing intentions in the mini…
Icon - The names of Jesus
Icon - The names of Jesus
by Tim Pillinger
An attempt to produce a focus on ways Jesus describes himself. From the top, moving left to right - the door (Luke 13:24), the way (John 14:6) , the true vine (John 15:1), the Alpha and Omega (Revelation 1:8), the light of the world (John 8:12), The bread of life (John 6:48) , t…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The First Sunday of Epiphany Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The First Sunday of Epiphany Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The First Sunday of Epiphany Mark 1.4-11 Gaze on a modern-day baptism by total immersion. It might take place in a river, or in a special pool built into a church. The candidates are dressed in clean, crisp white shirts and trousers, and have prepared long and hard for this day…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Third Sunday of Epiphany John 2.1-11 And remember, we are still in the season of Epiphany – the showing forth of Jesus to the world. And this is where we find the proper significance of this story. Consider the difference between the meaning of the words ‘sign’ and ‘miracle…
John for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus and Nicodemus
John for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus and Nicodemus
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus and Nicodemus John 3.1-13 I have lost my birth certificate. It’s the sort of thing that happens when you move house, which we did not long ago. I know where it was in the old house. It may have been accidentally thrown away; but I suspect it was put into a very, very safe p…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Pentecost Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Pentecost Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Day of Pentecost - Year A Numbers 11.24–30 Acts 2.1–21 John 7.37–39 Jesus, quoting Scripture, says that rivers of living water will flow out of the believer’s heart. But no Old Testament text says exactly that. Which Scripture is he referring to, then? Isaiah 55, of course, i…
LWPT Meditations - Pentecost - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Pentecost - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Pentecost Year A Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104:24-34, 35b 1st Corinthians 12:3b-13 John 20:19-23 or 7:37-39 If we read only the lectionary passage in 1st Corinthians, at first glance we might well think that the Holy Spirit is just a commodity, holy stuff that God uses to wo…
Called and named a chosen people
Called and named a chosen people
by Andrew Pratt
Called and named a chosen people, each one safe within God's ground, each one cherished, held and nurtured, in God's grace, too deep to sound. Nothing here will hurt or harm us, love will last through trial or test, fire nor water can confound us, here within God's peace we'll re…
Cooling streams and fiery depths
Cooling streams and fiery depths
by Andrew Pratt
Cooling streams and fiery depths, heaven and hell shall beckon, those who have, have much to lose, all have much to reckon. Verses 2-3 follow Metre: 7 6 7 6 Tune: MELLING Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 7/9/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please i…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Sixth Sunday of Easter Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Sixth Sunday of Easter Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 16.9–15 Revelation 21.10, 22—22.5 John 14.23–29 No Temple, no sun or moon, and no uncleanness either. A world without evil is, to us, as inconceivable as a world without sun and moon – or, for first-century Jews, a holy city without a Temple. In th…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The Second Sunday of Lent Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The Second Sunday of Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday of Lent - Year A Genesis 12.1–4a Romans 4.1–5, 13–17 John 3.1–17 ‘Leave country, kin and home, and go.’ And Abram went. The call was like that other word, to leave and cleave, spoken before the Fall: a marriage vow, a challenge and a pledge of loyalty. Like,…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: First Week in Lent Year A