Worship Reflections from July 2025
27 July 2025
REFLECTION (July 27) Ask and it will be given you? The prayer which Jesus taught his disciples is recorded in two Gospels – Matthew and Luke. And as you might expect each version is a little different. Matthew’s version tends to follow standard Jewish liturgy. Luke’s version is the shorter and probably earlier form of the Lord’s prayer. It is typical of the style of Luke which is more colloquial. Both Matthew and Luke appear to have used the same collected sayings of…
20 July 2025
Luke 10:38-42 Jesus Visits Martha and Mary 38 Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him.[a] 39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus’s[b] feet and listened to what he was saying. 40 But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, so she came to him and asked, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her, then, to help me.” 41 But…
13 July 2025
REFLECTION – Who is my neighbour? The Parable of the Good Samaritan Luke 10:25-37 25 An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus.[j] “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And…