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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 10th July 2022

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                                    Year C             10th July 2022 Lectionary Readings: Deuteronomy. 30 v9-14; Psalm 25 v1-10; Colossians v1-14; Luke 10 v25-37 Obey the Lord’s commands! In the gospel reading today, Luke tells us of an encounter between an ‘expert in the Law of Moses’ and Jesus. The ‘expert’ asked Jesus a question…

Faith in the Age of Reason

Faith in the Age of Reason  by Jonathan HillLion, 2004  208 pages  £8.99 ISBN 0 745 951 309 Setting the scene first in the Middle Ages, Jonathan Hill then embarks on a sweeping, historical  survey of the impact of the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, on the Christian faith. The movement of ideas is traced…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 3rd July 2022

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                    Year C            3rd July 2022 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 66 v10-14; Psalm 66 v1-9; Galatians 6 v1-16; Luke 10 v1-20. The power of personal testimony In today’s gospel reading Luke recalls that Jesus sent seventy-two of his followers into the towns and villages ahead of him as he made his way…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 26th June 2022

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                     Year C                         26th June 2022 Lectionary Readings: 1 Kings 19 v15-16, 19-21; Psalm 16; Galatians 5 v1, 13-25; Luke 9 v51-62 Guidelines for followers of Jesus. Luke relates how Jesus reacted when he and his followers encountered rejection by the inhabitants of a village in Samaria. They simply move…

How should we then live ?

How should we then live ? By Dr Francis A Schaeffer  dvd (2 discs) 1977  with Study Guide£31 from Amazon   Can be seen on You Tube In 10 programmes Dr Schaeffer covers the rise and decline of western thought and culture, the movement  and development of thought and ideas from Roman times to the present,…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 19th June 2022

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time.             Year C                         19th June 2022 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 65 v1-9;  Psalm 22 v19-28;  Galatians 3 v23-29;  Luke 8 v26-39. ‘But the people were terrified’ (Luke 8 v35d) In the gospel reading for today we read of Jesus healing a man possessed by ‘many demons’. This poor man had been…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 12th June 2022

Trinity Sunday                                  Year C                                                 12th June 2022 Lectionary readings:  Proverbs 8 v1-4, 22-31;    Psalm 8;    Romans 5 v1-5;    John 16 v12-15. The source of Wisdom. “You made us a little lower than yourself. You let us rule everything your hands have made. And you put all of it under our power”.  (Psalm 8 v5,6).…

Revelation and Reason

Revelation and Reason : Wesleyan responses to eighteenth century rationalismBy Arthur Skevington Wood  The Wesley Fellowship, 1992   103 pages ISBN 0 951 633 228 “This book examines the reaction of John Wesley himself together with two of his associates –  John William Fletcher and Joseph Benson – to the challenges of reductionist rationalism in…