The Second Sunday before Lent Year C

The Second Sunday Before Lent

Genesis 2.4b–9, 15–25
Revelation 4
Luke 8.22–5

If you go straight from today’s Genesis reading to the reading from Revelation, you could almost imagine that the history of God’s relations with people had been one of unbroken communion. From the intimacy of the Garden of Eden to the glad worship of the heavenly court, human beings were made to live in the presence of God. But there are some subtle differences that suggest the reality of what lies between these two ‘times’ in our story with God...