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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Friday Afternoon
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Friday Afternoon
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Friday Afternoon Genesis 1: 27-30 My wife and I have friends who used to keep an animal or two, and when we stayed with them for the weekend we were introduced to a calf called Jeremy. It was at Sunday lunch that we met him. They brought Jeremy up, had him slaughtered and cut up,…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 FRIDAY... ...One of the best sermons I have heard for a long time was an exposition of this passage. It took the theme of the blind man’s cloak. The cloak, the preacher pointed out, was the man’s security. Shade in summer, warmth in winter, it…
Exodus and Leviticus - From Guerrilla to Fugitive
Exodus and Leviticus - From Guerrilla to Fugitive
by SPCK - John Goldingay
From Guerrilla to Fugitive EXODUS 2: 11- 25 There is a special kind of irregular verb (popularized by the British TV series Yes Minister) that describes the same action differently according to who speaks and who is being referred to. A well-known example is “I am firm; you are o…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - From GARDEN to COURTYARD
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - From GARDEN to COURTYARD
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
From GARDEN to COURTYARD When Jesus warned the disciples after washing their feet that they could not follow where he was going, Peter offered to lay down his life for Jesus (13:37). Despite Jesus’ warning that he was more likely to deny him and everything in the Farewell Discour…
From a prison cell
From a prison cell
by Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Advent Year A Matthew 11.2-11 Monologue: From a prison cell I shouldn’t have doubted. I should have known. And trusted. But I’d been in this prison too long. And I’m only human. I know! I know! That wasn’t how people saw me. They saw a loud-mouthed, opinionated, w…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 23 (28)
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 23 (28)
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 23(28) Hymn: Great is thy faithfulness or When the autumn days bring darkness Prayer: thoughts based on Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 Hymn: For the healing of the nations or Look around: so many places Reading: Exodus 32:1-14 Sermon idea - 1: Dra…
Mark The People's Commentary - From the Least to the Greatest
Mark The People's Commentary - From the Least to the Greatest
by BRF - Dick France
From the Least to the Greatest Mustard Seed Mustard seed is proverbially tiny (see Matthew 17:20), and yet it produces ‘the greatest of all shrubs’. This is not, of course, the puny ‘mustard-and-cress’ that we grow in little plastic boxes, but a garden herb which in Palestine com…
Open with God Book - Fund-Raising
Open with God Book - Fund-Raising
by Christine Odell
FUND-RAISING Prayers for Various Occasions Reading 2 Corinthians 8.1-9 Ask those present to hold a coin in their hands. Loving God, you know what a big thing money is in our lives: if we have too little we are eaten up with worry; if we have plenty our consciences feel uneasy...
Genesis for the scientific age
Genesis for the scientific age
by Jonathan Miller
This is a re-writting of the Genesis creation account for the scientific age which I wrote for a module at college. Exerpt-- In the beginning Jesus was with God and Jesus was God. God imagined, Jesus spoke and the Holy Spirit moved and created a speck, smaller than a grain of san…
Imagining the Lectionary: making God Real (Epiphany 3A)
Imagining the Lectionary: making God Real (Epiphany 3A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Making God Real (Epiphany 3A) Reflection accompanying image Making God Real – a new kind of fisherman "Immediately they left their nets and followed him...Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him..." (Matt.4:20,22) Jesus made …
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