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Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 11th February 2024

Sunday before Lent                          Year B                                                            11th February 2024 Lectionary readings: 2 Kings 2 v1-12,         Psalm 50 v1-6,           2 Corinthians 4 v3-6,                        Mark 9 v2-9. Putting doubts to bed. In the gospel reading, Jesus appears to have arranged a tutorial for his closest disciples, Peter, James and John. Jesus takes them to…

Would you receive help?

The parable of the Good Samaritan has been covered recently in our TFTD. It is a well-known story and one you might remember hearing as a child in school assemblies or Sunday School. We are using this story in our next Messy Church when we think about love. Jesus had told this story in reply…

Making connections

We have taken a few days off during the week and on Thursday we were in Gret Yarmouth, which was a red-letter day for the town.  After years of lobbying, agreement to create a new river crossing was granted in 2018, legal work took longer than expected and work eventually started in January 2020. During…

A new start

On Tuesday our Open The Book Team visited Colneis and Fairfield schools to participate in their Assemblies. Our story this visit was Noah and the Flood. We have never used as many props and we had help from 7 children in each school as well as 7 team members. About 2 dozen wild animals (soft…

Bar work

You may remember a few weeks ago I explained how Granddaughter senior would be attending a gymnastics trial. She loved it. The coaches were all very young (a sign of my age!) and very patient. She moved from activity to activity under their watch and gentle guidance. When we collected her for her second session,…

Swaying in the wind

Many years ago, one night I found myself staying in a remote hotel in Lincolnshire, surrounded by reed beds. It was wintertime and the place was quite eerie; the only sound outside was the music of wind in the reeds and lapping water. Reading through today’s gospel reading (Luke 7:24:30) I was reminded of that…

The truth will out

www.christianaid.org.uk/resources/pray/daily-reading-31-january Today’s thought was written by Rev Claire Jones Something to read Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will make your vindication shine like the light, and the justice of your cause like the noonday. – Psalm 37:5-6. Something to think about The need to be proved…

Zero hours contract?

The book of Nehemiah is just one of many fascinating Bible accounts and I am grateful that my daily reading app frequently takes me to passages I have not read for some time.  Chapter 2 has two interesting statements separated by a few verses. Verse 2 “I was very much afraid” and then verse 4,…