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Poem/reflection: Still learning?
Poem/reflection: Still learning?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/reflection: Still learning? During his lifetime and throughout his ministry, Jesus met and spoke to and helped and healed people of different nationalities, beliefs and practices. He greeted Samaritans, Greeks, Romans, rebels, Jews and all Gentiles and dealt with them withou…
Monologue: Nathaniel reflects
Monologue: Nathaniel reflects
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: Nathaniel reflects Looking back on it now, I can’t believe what I said when Philip came running to me on that first day when I met Jesus. Philip was so excited, but the response I gave must have shaken him to the core. We’d been friends for some time. We’d studied the …
Being him - a reflection on Matthew 10: 40-42
Being him - a reflection on Matthew 10: 40-42
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Being him – a reflection on Matthew 10: 40-42 Second Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 10: 40-42 How weird is that? Did Jesus really mean that if I walk into a room, he walks in with me? And if I speak, he speaks? ... 26 June 2011, Second Sunday after Pentecost, Matthew 10: 40…
At this time of New Year
At this time of New Year
by Marjorie Dobson
At this time of New Year, when we wish happiness to everyone we meet, the Psalmist helps us to focus our minds on those who are in real need. We think of those whose New Year is not a time for celebration. We think of those who have not been able to afford to buy lavish gifts for…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 1 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 1 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 1 Isaiah 40.21–31 1 Corinthians 9.16–23 Mark 1.29–39 There are two complicated, separate yet related themes running through today’s readings. The first is to do with proclamation – all three passages talk about the ways in which God makes himself known to us. The second is…
Revelation bible study guide - Jesus Revealed
Revelation bible study guide - Jesus Revealed
by SPCK - N T Wright
JESUS REVEALED Revelation 1 Some years ago there was an eclipse of the sun. These things happen rarely enough, and to witness it is a great experience. But staring at the sun, as it slips behind the moon and then emerges the other side, is dangerous. If you look through binocular…
Job for Everyone - I Know That My Restorer Lives
Job for Everyone - I Know That My Restorer Lives
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Know That My Restorer Lives Job 19: 1- 29 In spring 1741 over a period of twenty-four days, George Frideric Handel set to music a compilation of scriptural texts, mostly from the Old Testament, that had been made by a landowner and patron of the arts called Charles Jennens. In …
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation- 25thSunday in Ordinary Time Yr B James 5: 13-20 Mark 9: 38-50 I have never been in church when Proverbs 31 verses 10-31 were read. I imagine they would cause a riot in the average church today; the very idea of telling women to be housewives, much less good housewive…
LWPT Meditations - Easter Sunday - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Easter Sunday - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Easter Sunday Year A Acts 10:34-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Colossians 3:1-4 Matthew 28:1-10 Peter always put the resurrection of Jesus at the heart of his preaching, as did the other disciples. Initially, their witness was only to the Jews, but eventually it extended to…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The New Way Of Life
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The New Way Of Life
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF THE NEW WAY OF LIFE 1 Peter 3: 8-16 Most of us know the feeling of getting into a car we haven’t driven before. You have a look round, see where the switch for the lights is, check the angle of the mirrors, and so on. It may take a moment to figur…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 4 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 4 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
**Proper 4 Luke 7: 1-10** Gaze on the expression of amazement on Jesus’ face. He is overjoyed by this man’s witness of faith and his willingness to submit to the spiritual authority of a local itinerant teacher of a subjugated nation. Think how encouraged he must have been by the…
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Light in the Darkness