Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 5th October 2025 Lectionary Readings: Habakkuk 1 v1-4, 2 v1-4; Psalm 37 v1-9; 2 Timothy 1 v1-14; Luke 17 v5-10. Faith, Trust and Mission. “You have been trusted with a wonderful treasure. Guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit, who lives within you.” (2…
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 28th September 2025 Lectionary Readings: Amos 6 v1a, 4-7; Psalm 146; 1 Timothy 6 v6-19; Luke 16 v19-31. Warnings to the rich. This week’s readings continue the theme of recent weeks about the dangers of trusting in wealth. The prophet Amos takes the rulers of Jerusalem and…
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 21st September 2025 Lectionary Readings: Amos 8 v4-7; Psalm 113; 1 Timothy 2 v1-7; Luke 16 v1-13. God and money. Amos was send by God to the northern kingdom of Israel during a period of prosperity to expose its rotten core. Amos warned the people of impending…
2 Kings : The Power and the Fury by Dale Ralph Davis. Christian Focus, 2005(Focus on the Bible) 363 pages £9 ISBN 978 1 845 500 962 Dale Ralph Davis has written a first class commentary on the book of 2 Kings. His background as an academic (prof of Old Testament) as well as a…
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Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 14th September 2025 Lectionary Readings: Exodus 32 v7-14; Psalm 51 v1-10; 1 Timothy 1 v12-17; Luke 15 v1-10. RSVP Luke tells of a time when Jesus was surrounded by a crowd made up of ‘tax collectors and sinners’ and ‘Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses’.…
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 7th September 2025 Lectionary Readings: Deuteronomy 30 v15-20; Psalm 1; Philemon v1-21; Luke 14 v25-33. The seemingly impossible demands of being a disciple. Jesus said, “You cannot be my disciples unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, your wife and children and…
September 2025 Preaching Plan
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 31st August 2025 Lectionary Readings: Proverbs 25 v6,7; Psalm 112; Hebrews 13 v1-8, 15,16; Luke 14 v1, 7-14. Hospitality Luke says, ‘One Sabbath, Jesus was having dinner in the home of an important Pharisee, and everyone was carefully watching Jesus’. (Luke 14 v1). ‘Jesus saw how the…
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 24th August 2025 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 58 v9b-14; Psalm 103 v1-8; Hebrews 12 v18-29; Luke 13 v10-17 Compassion trumps ‘Religion’ In today’s gospel reading, Luke recalls an incident where Jesus heals a woman on the Sabbath and upsets the local worship leader! The man in charge of…