Worship Reflections on Luke

Worship Reflections on Luke

16 February 2025

A Service for Justice and Peace  We built it now for the Transfiguration! Exodus 34:29-35 The Shining Face of Moses 29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to…

2 February 2025

Adventures in Evolutionary Theology Comfort in the Zoo 1 In you, O Lord, I take refuge;   let me never be put to shame. 2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;   incline your ear to me and save me. 3 Be to me a rock of refuge,   a strong fortress, to save me,   for you are my rock and my fortress.  4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,   from the grasp of the unjust and cruel. 5 For you, O Lord, are my hope,   my trust, O Lord, from my youth. 6 Upon you I…

Christmas Day 2024

Reflection Christmas Day 2024  Introduction Does Christmas with its messages of love, peace and goodwill bring out a better you or even the best in you? We know that this is less likely than maybe we would like it to be – why? Because research has been done with those most amenable to Christmas – children lllustration: Beliefs and Behaviour (14 December 2024 New Scientist) We know this from the latest research on Santa Claus. Does belief in Santa Claus encourage…

22 December 2024

Can You Hear the Angels? (Advent 4: Peace) Micah 5:2-5a 2 But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah,   who are one of the little clans of Judah,from you shall come forth for me   one who is to rule in Israel,whose origin is from of old,   from ancient days. 3 Therefore he shall give them up until the time   when she who is in labour has brought forth;then the rest of his kindred shall return   to the people of Israel. 4 And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord,   in the…

15 December 2024

ADVENT 3 – JOY WILL FIND A WAY Eternal God,in the long ago days when the earth was flat,and heaven was above the clouds,and disease was caused by demons, We now, after the enlightenment are in bondage to different limitations. We doubt what we cannot prove; we ignore what we cannot seeand finding little room for faith,Yet we believe your Son was born to lighten ALL our darknesses. The good folk of the Iona Community and the Wild Goose Resource Group who wrote…