Jesus is risen! He is risen indeed! THEMES: Unity and Community The heart of Jesus: “That they all may be one” Sure enough this is good timing for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – better together! As the Easter season draws to a close, the final challenge of this part of the Lectionary,...
Rev Tania writes: Again the readings continue with the call to live a life of sacrificial love in order to know and share the resurrection. This week the “one another” that we are called to love expands in radical and universal ways, leaving us with no excuse for any refusal to love, and inviting us...
Sermon by Rev Mike Uptin of Bush Church Aid: Click link to open PDF of the sermon notes: 5thSundayOfEaster_BCA visitRevMikeUptin_02May2021_YearB
Jesus is risen! He is risen indeed! The fourth Sunday of Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday, and each year the scripture readings include the twenty-third Psalm and a reading from John 10, describing Jesus as the Good Shepherd. The image of Jesus assures us that we are known and cared for. In Acts, Peter affirms...
Christ is Risen! The Easter celebration continues with the familiar upper room appearances from John’s Gospel. But, this year the supporting texts highlight a feature of the resurrection that can easily be missed – the way Christ’s resurrection brings us into a unified, loving community in which we share joy and abundant life together. This,...
Jesus is risen! He is risen indeed! This is the greeting that will echo across the world today, as it has for centuries since that first Easter Sunday morning. Today is the day that we have been moving towards since the start of Advent at the end of November, and it is the day that...
On this Palm/Passion Sunday the Passion Gospel is only the Gospel reading that changes each year for the Liturgy of the Passion, and the essential elements of the story remain the same with the other Gospels. The invitation for this Sunday is to meditate on the passion – the self-giving – of Christ, and allow...
It’s a week of looking up. For the Israelites in the wilderness, it was looking up at a bronze snake that would open them to God’s healing from the poisonous snakes in their camp. For Nicodemus it was looking up at the Christ who promised that when he was lifted up he would draw all...
THEMES: The story of God’s saving revelation is at the heart of the lectionary readings. God’s gift of the law, and the value of God’s law which brings wisdom. In the Old Testament the Lectionary has chosen the giving of the Ten Commandments to Israel. The Ten Commandments in Exodus lifts up God’s gift of...
