Lectionary Reading July 26 Part 2 Read. Romans 8:26-39. The idea of predestination is for many people hard to grasp yet in reality it is perfectly logical. The God who is Alpha and Omega (the beginning and the end), will of course know both how things begin and equally how things will end. There isContinue reading “26 July Part 2”
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Lectionary Readings 26 July
Lectionary Reading July 26 Read. Genesis 29:15-28 The custom of seeing daughters as items to be bought and sold goes from being strange to very disturbing. It is important to remember it was a different time with different attitudes. Sadly in some parts of our modern world that attitude still remains and it is aContinue reading “Lectionary Readings 26 July”
Lectionary Reading 5 July
Lectionary Reading 5 July Read. Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67. As we read this passage we can realise how far removed we are from the culture of the ancient world. Although I have friends whose marriages were successfully arranged by their families, in western culture this forming of a marriage relationship would be unusual. As weContinue reading “Lectionary Reading 5 July”
Lectionary Reading 14 June
Lectionary Reading 14 June Sentence: Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you. Psalm 33:12,22 (NRSV) Reading. Genesis 18:1-15. Many of my friends speak of the delight of having grandContinue reading “Lectionary Reading 14 June”
Trinity Sunday
Lectionary Reading Trinity Sunday Introduction: In this set of readings we remember how God created all things. We remember how right from the beginning God’s grace blessed his people with a covenant of authority. The readings also remind us that it was the action of the Spirit that enlivened all things and that empowering continuesContinue reading “Trinity Sunday”
