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Drama/Monologue: Say the word!
Drama/Monologue: Say the word!
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama/Monologue: Say the word! Can you believe it? He didn’t even come to the house. He never saw the man yet. But all he had to do was to speak a word … Amazing! Wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. Claudius is a great friend of mine, of course. We’ve …
Meditation - 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Radical-conservative thinking Matthew 5: 21-37 Somebody once told me there were 365 laws to keep, one for every day of the year! Well, I doubt I could recite more than a handful, so if It’s difficult knowing what the laws are, imagine…
Meditation - 3rd Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 3rd Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 3rd Sunday in Lent Year A A combined planter and harvester John 4: 5-42 Is that a Samaritan woman Jesus appears to be talking to? A pretty unsavoury character I would think if she’s come for water at this time of day. She’s seen us coming and she’s off like shot, so …
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 2nd Sunday in Lent Year A Salvation by ritual? John 3: 1-17 It was all beyond me! I thought I understood; I’ve studied the scriptures all my life, I’ve taught others how to interpret them, I’ve shown them what God requires and how they should live; but when I saw Jes…
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A What light? Matthew 5: 13-20 What a day! What a preacher! Late home again! ‘If only I’d left earlier’ I thought, as I set off home in the dark. But it was worth it, Jesus was truly compelling today! I recalled some of the first wo…
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A A new fishing boat? Matthew 4: 12-23 There was something about John’s message that just couldn’t be ignored; I was a sinner, and so was everyone else; it hurt my pride… and most everyone else’s too, but it was true. So it came as no g…
meditation - 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
meditation - 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A I wanted to talk to Jesus today Matthew 5: 1-12 I want my life to change. I’m no good. Life’s been hard over the last few months. I’ve made so little time for God. I’m almost too embarrassed to pray, my faith is so weak, and when I …
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Come and meet the Messiah! John 1: 29-42 Yes Simon, I know I’m late, and yes I’m sorry I wasn’t there to help you mend the nets, but Simon, you know I said ‘If this Jesus is going to do what John says he will, then I want to be part o…
A Bit Like Jesus - Care of the dying
A Bit Like Jesus - Care of the dying
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 4 Care Care of the dying Soon afterwards he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow; and with her was a l…
A Bit Like Jesus - What is faith?
A Bit Like Jesus - What is faith?
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 5 Faith What is faith? Then he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son…
A Bit Like Jesus - Faith in Alpha
A Bit Like Jesus - Faith in Alpha
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 5 Faith Faith in Alpha I cannot claim to read Alpha News very often. It can seem too much like propaganda: enthusiastic items about local Alpha groups, which do not always translate into accurate information at local level. However, just before putting the latest Alpha News …
A Bit Like Jesus - Moral passion
A Bit Like Jesus - Moral passion
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 4 Care Moral passion There is one feature common to these different examples of care. It is passion. Care is not seen as just a part of one’s job, something that can be codified, or (even worse) as an arbitrary life-style choice. This is passionate care, driving remarkable p…
A Bit Like Jesus - The faith of a Gentile
A Bit Like Jesus - The faith of a Gentile
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 5 Faith The faith of a Gentile When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, appealing to him and saying, ‘Lord, my servant is lying at home paralysed, in terrible distress.’ And he said to him, ‘I will come and cure him.’ The centurion answered, ‘Lord, I am not worthy…
A Bit Like Jesus - Jairus' daughter
A Bit Like Jesus - Jairus' daughter
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Jairus’ daughter When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered round him; and he was by the lake. Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet and begged him repeatedly, ‘My …
A Bit Like Jesus - Faithfulness
A Bit Like Jesus - Faithfulness
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 5 Faith Faithfulness A doctor friend was asked to produce a set of bullet points for a patient fact sheet about healthy living. He included the obvious candidates: Don’t smoke; Drink and eat moderately; Take exercise; and so forth. Then he playfully added two final bullet po…
A Bit Like Jesus - Command to silence
A Bit Like Jesus - Command to silence
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Commands to silence As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, crying loudly, ‘Have mercy on us, Son of David!’ When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, ‘Do you believe that I am able to do this?’ They said to h…
A Bit Like Jesus - Family Stories
A Bit Like Jesus - Family Stories
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Family Stories Stories are particularly important for families. We tell and retell stories about where and when we were born, about holidays shared, about birthday and Christmas parties enjoyed long ago, about grandparents and great-grandparents no longer …
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing Stories rather than miracle stories