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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 18th April 2021

Third Sunday of Easter                                Year B                                                    18th April 2021 Lectionary readings:   Acts 3 v12-19;  Psalm 4;     1 John 3 v1-9,   Luke 24 v36b-48. Letting go and letting God. The psalmist says “I can lie down and sleep soundly because you, Lord, will keep me safe”. (Ps4 v8). The writer is confident that…

God, Stephen Hawking and the multiverse

God, Stephen Hawking and the multiverse : what Hawking said and why it matters  by David Hutchings and David Wilkinson  SPCK, 2020  210 pages  £9.99    ISBN 978 0 281 081 912also available as an ebook There are so many plaudits from scientists that there must be something very special about this book. Indeed there is, for…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 11th April 2021

Second Sunday of Easter                              Year B                                                 11th April 2021 Lectionary Readings:           Acts 4 v32-35;            1 John 1 1v1-2v2;      John 20 v19-31. Friends re-united. The reading from John’s gospel relates to events in the evening of what we now call Easter Day. Jesus appears to his disciples, his friends. The shock of his…

An Open Tomb

An open tombNo stone at the doorJust a clothLay on the floor The body had goneAn empty spaceWhere the son of godHad laid in this place Raised from the deadScars where he bledHis love still remainsIt always stays the same Jesus shows us the wayTo follow him every dayHowever long we liveOur sins he will…

A Wooden Cross

A wooden crossOn a hillA man, a JewBetrayedHis pain lingers still The cross he draggedAs people staredHe is guiltyThey declared Outstretched armsNails cruellyDriven into palms A crown of thornsOn his headHe would sufferUntil he was dead. He died for usIn a worldOf unjustAnd mistrust He is our saviourA flame of lightForever and alwaysBurning bright Maureen…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 4th April 2021

Easter Sunday                                                           Year B                                    4th April 2021. Lectionary Readings:  Isaiah 25 v6-9; Psalm 118 v14-24; 1 Cor15 v1-11, 20; Mark 16 v1-8. What if? Mark was writing to a mix of people, some with a Jewish background and a knowledge of scripture, (our Old Testament), and others from a ‘Gentile’ background with no…

Death in the City by Francis A Schaeffer

Death in the City by Francis A Schaeffer  IVP, 1969  127 pages £11.00 ISBN 0 851 103 472 Dr Schaeffer was a leading, American, evangelical theologian and philosopher of the last century. He was most closely associated with L’Abri Fellowship based in Switzerland, using his  knowledge and skills in apologetics and philosophy to bring many…

A Christian Manifesto – DVD Review

A Christian Manifesto  by Rev Dr Francis Schaeffer   dvd  60 minutes also available on YouTube This was a lecture given in 1982 in Florida by a leading American evangelical, a philosopher and theologian whose influence was widely felt not just in the USA but in Europe as well. The substance of the lecture, given in…