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Poem: Rules, or freedom
Poem: Rules, or freedom
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Rules, or freedom Rules are tools to keep the unruly in line – or that’s the idea, at least. Rules are restrictive, inactive, inflexible and incapable of making allowances – that’s the idea of most of them. Rules are meant to make fools of those who disobey and in that way …
Prayer: God of mercy and grace
Prayer: God of mercy and grace
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God of mercy and grace God of mercy and grace, we know that we can come to you each morning to bring our requests and our prayers to lay them before you. We are astounded at your great mercy, for we know how your standards for our behaviour are so high and yet you are pre…
Meditation - 3rd Sunday of Easter Year A
Meditation - 3rd Sunday of Easter Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- 3rd Sunday of Easter Time Year A He Walked out on death Luke 24: 13-35 It promised to be a long hard road to Emmaus: The events of the past few days had taken their toll, we were tired, confused and thoroughly depressed. A stranger joined us and despite our best effor…
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 5th Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- 5th Sunday in Lent Year A Why am I wrapped like a corpse? John 11: 1-45 ‘If only Jesus had been in Judea’, they lamented ‘our brother Lazarus would still be alive now not lying there cold in his tomb surrounded by all this crying and wailing.’ Mary and Martha had sen…
Meditation - Palm Sunday Year A
Meditation - Palm Sunday Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- Palm Sunday Year A Only time will tell Matthew 26: 14-17: 66 When he said he was going to Jerusalem we guessed he would need some support, after all, last time he was here the authorities wanted him dead, so we told our families they would have to fend for themselves…
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Time Year A Go and tell others! John 20: 19-31 I’ll never forget the first time we saw Jesus after his resurrection. It was the first day of the week. We’d spent all Sabbath moping around and wondering what to do with ourselves; after three years…
Meditation - Easter Day Year A
Meditation - Easter Day Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation - Easter Day Year A Go and tell my brothers! John 20: 1-18 Wake up, wake up! I’ve seen Jesus!’ ‘You mean you’ve seen his body?’ ‘No, I mean I didn’t see his body.’ ‘What do you mean Mary, you’ve seen him but you haven’t seen him?’ ‘I mean his body wasn’t there.’ Creat…
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent Year A
Meditation - 4th Sunday in Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation- 4th Sunday in Lent Year A Destiny’s Child Luke 2: 33-35 We can’t imagine life without our little bundle of joy! Mary has taken to motherhood like a fish takes to water; Oh don’t get me wrong, we still have our moments, it’s not like everything is perfect, it was boun…
Meditation - 3rd Sunday of Advent Year A
Meditation - 3rd Sunday of Advent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 3rd Sunday of Advent Year A A new road Matthew 11: 2-11 and Isaiah 35: 1-10 Tell me, are you the Messiah? Although my circumstances are nothing like John’s, sometimes when I feel alone, and the going is hard, convictions once firmly held seem to evaporate. I turn to …
Meditation - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time C
Meditation - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C But it hasn’t happened Luke 4:14-21 Captives will be released, The blind will see, The downtrodden will be freed from their oppressors, The time of the Lord's favour has come; This scripture has come true today before your very eyes…
Meditation - 3rd Sunday of Easter Year C
Meditation - 3rd Sunday of Easter Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 3rd Sunday of Easter Year C Is it you Lord? John 21: 1-19 How could they not recognise him? They had been with him for three years. Day and night he had been the centre of their lives. He was their best friend and their teacher... Created by David Middleton on behalf…
Meditation - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Transformed for eternity Luke 20: 27-38 We realised the Sadducees were trying to trick Jesus, and that they didn’t believe in resurrection at all, so we were annoyed by their impertinence. But even so, it was one of those little ques…
Meditation - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C A Justified Sinner Luke 18: 9-14 Jesus became frustrated soon after we arrived in Jericho, with the self-confident and self-righteous people he was meeting. Finally it all came to a head, and Jesus started telling one of his stories;…
Meditation - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Touching the untouchable Luke 19: 1-10 He was a collaborator, that’s what everyone was saying: He was devout and highly influential … in the Roman tax collecting business at least. But he was a collaborator, that’s what he was, a tra…
Meditation - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Crumbling materialism Luke 23: 33-43 These are truly terrifying words, Lord. You paint a bleak and depressing picture: destruction of the centre of worship, wars, insurrection, earthquakes, famine, epidemics and many more terrifyin…
Meditation - Trinity Sunday Year C
Meditation - Trinity Sunday Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – Trinity Sunday Time Year C Tomorrow John 16: 12-15 Why? Why go to such lengths to fill us in, Father God? As I look back over the history of your relationship with us I am staggered at the lengths you’ve done to keep us informed. You are God, accountable to no one, f…
Pentecost Reflection
Pentecost Reflection
by Christine Dutton
These reflections were written for Pentecost worship when the congregation worked in small groups on various ways of working with Acts 2. These were used with a group working with meditative prayer inspired by the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples. Pentecost Reflection T…
Meditation - The Epiphany Year C