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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,…
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - At Last
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - At Last
by SPCK - John Goldingay
At Last Genesis 20: 14- 21: 14 My parents married later in life than was usual in their day, and I previously mentioned that it was some years before I was born. My mother used to tell me she couldn’t imagine there was a baby more welcomed into the world than I was. A generation …
Poem: Nothing else matters
Poem: Nothing else matters
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Nothing else matters Nothing else matters now. Who cares if you’re poor, or wealthy? Who cares if you’re a banker, or unemployed? Who cares if you own a stately mansion, or you’re homeless,? Who cares what colour you are, or what your background is? Who cares how many degre…
glimpses of glory - Palm Sunday (Liturgy of the Passion) - Year C
glimpses of glory - Palm Sunday (Liturgy of the Passion) - Year C
by SPCK - David Adam
Palm Sunday (Liturgy of the Passion) God, our Father, as Christ was welcomed into the Holy City, may we welcome him into our lives and homes. May the King of Glory have rule in our hearts, that your kingdom come in us as it is in heaven; through Christ our Lord, to whom with you,…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Things Complicated and Back to Front
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Things Complicated and Back to Front
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Things Complicated and Back to Front The time of our move to the United States in 1997 happened to be the moment when my disabled first wife, Ann, became totally wheelchair-bound. When I had been offered a job here a few months previously, she could still get about a little with …
Stunned by sudden revelation
Stunned by sudden revelation
by Andrew Pratt
Stunned by sudden revelation, God is near and God is real. Yet we keep our isolation, choosing who can join our meal. Verses 2-3 follow Metre: 8 7 8 7 Trochaic Tune: SERVANT SONG Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 27/4/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. …
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - We Want To See Jesus
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - We Want To See Jesus
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
We want to see Jesus John’s account of Jesus welcomed into Jerusalem by the crowd showed how he rejected violent revolution for just one nation, responding with a humility which caused ‘all the world’ to go after him. Both universalism and humble suffering are developed further i…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3c Reading Luke and saving the planet
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3c Reading Luke and saving the planet
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Reading Luke and saving the planet After this brief snapshot of Palestine then and now, I return to the central issue: how does reading Luke affect the agenda of global warming? We have looked at the context for Jesus’ ministry, but what of its content?…
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