Year B Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Psalm 15 James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… There’s a passage in Deuteronomy 6:5-9… which is a fuller expression of our reading from a few minutes ago… it’s a prayer we used to recite every week at Friday...
Year B Proverbs 9:1-6Psalm 34:9-14Ephesians 5:15-20John 6:51-58 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The 1999 movie… The Matrix… is a story about a society which exists in a computer generated reality… like one of those computer games where each person has an avatar… and all of the avatars on...
Year B 1 Kings 19:4-8Psalm 34:1-8Ephesians 4:25-5:2John 6:35, 41-51 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… In today’s passage from 1 Kings… Elijah is despondent… his success on God’s behalf… the killing of Baal’s prophets in the Kidron Valley… means nothing to him now… he has escaped Jezebel’s reach and...
Year BExodus 16:2-4,9-15Psalm 78:23-29Ephesians 4:1-16John 6:24-35 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Think for a moment about the sandy Sahara Desert… it’s the third largest desert on Earth… if it was a square… it would measure 1,897 miles on each side… that’s a lot of desert… it’s just a...
Year B2 Kings 4:42-44Psalm 145:10-19Ephesians 3:14-21John 6:1-21 May the words of my mouth, O God, speak your truth… The Passover… the festival of the Jews was near… and why is Passover relevant in this story… because it reminds us that on the night of the last plague in Egypt… the Angel of Death passed...