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Theme for the Week – 4 October 2015

Celebrating Harvest Thanksgiving  Readings for this Sunday: Joel 2:21-27; Psalm 126; 1 Timothy 6:6-10; Matthew 6:25-33  Jesus told his followers to “Consider the lilies of the field …”  Which is a good thing to do in terms of their life cycle. One aspect of lilies is that they only spend a part of their life […]

Theme for the Week – 20 September 2015

Scripture for this Sunday: Proverbs 31:10-31; Psalm 1; James 3:13-4:3, 7, 8a; Mark 9:30-37 I have discovered that to learn to speak Spanish means being willing to take a risk: to ask questions that might be perceived as silly; to make mistakes and have to be corrected.  To speak up and ask for clarification, to speak […]

Theme for the Week – 13 September 2015

Scripture for this Sunday: Proverbs 1:20-33; Wisdom of Solomon 7:26-8:1 (Canticle); James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38 In 1966, John Lennon caused a lot of trouble with an out-of-context remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. If he had waited 20-30 years, and used words like “postmodernism,” or “rampant secularism and the decline of the church,” it […]

Theme for the Week – 6 September 2015

Scripture for Sunday: Proverbs 22; Psalm 125; James 2:1–10, 14-17; Mark 7:24-37 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,’ and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? (James 2:15-16) […]

Theme for the Week – 30 August 2015

Scripture for Sunday: Song of Solomon 2.8–13; Psalm 45.1–2, 6–9; James 1.17–27; Mark 7.1–8, 14, 15, 21–23 (Jesus is criticised for his disciples’ failure to follow hand-washing and other rituals). Ashley Madison is a web site for dating with a difference: something “on the side.” It’s been hacked – 33 million account details are apparently […]

Theme for the Week – 23 August 2015

Scripture for Sunday, 23 August: 1 Kings 8:22-30,41-43 (Solomon’s dedication of the temple); Psalm 84; Ephesians 6:10-20 (putting on the armour of God); John 6:56-69 (the final verses of the chapter of the ‘bread of life’ in which the followers of Jesus find his teaching too difficult and wander away). “Every morning, I pray that people […]

Theme for the Week – 16 August 2015

Scripture for this Sunday: 1 Kings 2.10–12 3.3–14; Psalm 111; Ephesians 5.15–20; John 6.51–58  There is a saying: “You are what you eat.” It has a degree of truth spiritually.   The spiritual diet that Jesus offered fell upon many who were stuck on bread for a free lunch or on a spiritual diet that was […]

Theme for the Week – 9 August 2015

Readings for this Sunday: 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 (the death of David’s son, Absalom); Psalm 130; Ephesians 4:25-5:2 (living in love, not letting the sun go down on our anger); John 6:35, 41-51 (Jesus speaks of himself as the bread of life). There is a lot to digest in these readings and their connection […]

Theme for the Week – 26 July 2015

Scripture for this Sunday: 2 Samuel 11.1-15 (the story of David and Bathsheba); Psalm 14; Ephesians 3.14-21; John 6.1-21 (the feeding of five thousand).  It might be a bit risky to take as a subject or an example something few of us can have read in depth, but the development of the character Atticus Finch […]

Theme for the Week – 19 July 2015

Scripture for this Sunday: 2 Samuel 7.1-14a; Psalm 89.20-37; Ephesians 2.11-22; Mark 6.30-34,53-56 Missionaries who pursued the nomadic African Maasai people were confused about their apparent detachment from the buildings constructed as churches for them, because the Maasai tended to get up and go – they were nomads!  Eventually, in answer to a question, they […]

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