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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 28th May 2023

Day of Pentecost                                Year A                                                 28th May 2023 Lectionary Readings: Numbers 11 v24-30;      Psalm 104 v24-34, 35b;      Acts 2 v1-21;      John 20 v19-23                 ‘A breath of fresh air’ An expression we use to suggest that someone has made a positive difference to our lives. I think we can describe Jesus as ‘a breath…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 21st May 2023

7th Sunday of Easter            – (Sunday after Ascension Day)       Year A             21st May 2023 Lectionary Readings: Acts 1 v6-14;     Psalm 68 v1-10, 32-35;     1 Peter 4 v12-14; 5 v6-11.            John 17 v1-11                    Questions, questions. Luke has two versions of the Ascension. Why? At the end of his gospel, Luke says Jesus…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 14th May 2023

6th Sunday of Easter                        Year A                                                             14th May 2023 Lectionary Readings; Acts 17 v22-31; Psalm 66 v8-20; 1 Peter 3 v13-22; John 14 v15-21. We are not orphans, we are children of a loving God. In the passage from Acts, Paul is telling his sceptical audience that there is only one true…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 7th May 2023

5th Sunday of Easter            Year A                                                            7th May 2023 Lectionary Readings; Acts 7 v55-60; Psalm 31 v1-5, 15-16; 1 Peter 2 v2-10; John 14 v1-14. Do we need a visual aid to explain a mystery? In the hymn, popular with children of all ages, ‘Our God is a great big God’, (Singing the…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 30th April 2023

4th Sunday of Easter – Year A                                                                                  30th April 2023 Lectionary Readings:  Acts 2 v42-47;     Psalm 23;     1 Peter 2 v19-25;     John 10 v1-10.        Whose ‘voice’ do you trust? In the passage from Acts we are told ‘that they spent their time learning from the apostles, and they were like family to each other.’…

Cows, curses and Christ

Cows, curses and Christ : disciple making among the Laarim of South Sudan by Philip and Linda Byler.Privately published, 2012  1786 pages  £4 (available from Amazon)   ISBN 978 8 718 387 742 This is a well told story of missionary work in a very troubled part of Africa – Sudan. It has one very…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 23rd April 2023

The Third Sunday of Easter – Year A                                                                     23rd April 2023 Lectionary readings: Acts 2 v14a, 36-41;      Psalm 116 v1-4, 12-19;       1 Peter 1 v17-23;        Luke 24 v13-35. Strangers no more. In Luke’s account, two disciples on the way to the village of Emmaus, are joined by a  ‘stranger’ who they later discover is the…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 16th April 2023

Second Sunday of Easter                              Year A                                                 16th April 2023 Lectionary Readings:  Acts 2 v14a, 22-32;    Psalm 16;    1 Peter 1 v3-9;    John 20 v19-31 Faith in Jesus leads to true life. The readings this week open with Luke’s account of Peter’s speech to a crowd on the Day of Pentecost. Peter, accompanied by the…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 9th April 2023

Easter Day                                                     Year A                                                 9th April 2023 Lectionary readings: Jeremiah 31 v1-6,      Psalm 118 v1-2, 14-24;      Colossians 3 v1-4;      Matthew 18 v1-10. God keeps his promises. The prophet Jeremiah was active before and during the time of the Babylonian invasion. Jeremiah wrote, Some time ago, the Lord appeared to me and told me to…