23 O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before. 24 The threshing-floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with…
Then he said to him, ‘Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well.’ Luke 17:19 It is important for us to remember as we hear this story that we are reading Luke’s Gospel. Luke is keen for his hearers to know that Jesus seemed to…
29-32 “What I’m trying to do here is get you to relax, not be so preoccupied with getting so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep yourself in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions.…
There is the wide, immeasurable sea: there move living things without number, great and small; There go the ships, to and fro: and there is that Leviathan whom you formed to sport in the deep. Psalm 104:27-28 Today is the first in our series on Creation with a particular focus…
‘When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbours, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And…
Father’s day By swapping the readings for next week to this week, we now have the perfect reading for Father’s day: ‘Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.' Luke 14:26 …
THANKSGIVING SUN Aspley 28 August 2019 SERMON by the Rev Terry Booth Each morning Fr Nicholas and I begin our daily prayers with this prayer; As we rejoice in the gift of this new day, so may the light of your presence, O God, set our hearts on fire…
…before you were born I consecrated you; Jeremiah 4:5 ‘Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; Luke 12:35 Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat,…
My topic for us to reflect on this week is covenant. As I was thinking about it this week I thought, what does that even mean? In Peter’s letter he says, “as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct.” What does St Peter mean,…
My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27 All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that [Tabitha] Dorcas had made… Peter said, ‘Tabitha, get up.’ Then she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up. Acts 9:39,…
