Bethel: God moves closer Week 2: Thursday Reading Genesis 28.10-22 Jacob left Beer-sheba and went towards Haran. He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. And he dreamed that there was a ladder…
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Posts from February 2024
Shameful movement: Jacob Week 2: Wednesday Reading Genesis 27.41-46 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, ‘The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.’ But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called…
Sarah: forced movement Week 2: Tuesday Reading Genesis 12.10-20 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land. When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, ‘I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;…
Week 2: Movement This week we consider the theme of movement within the spiritual life. Waiting in darkness and uncertainty – a key aspect of Black Spirituality as we have seen – does not mean not moving. It means joining in with a God who is moving always within us, around us, and ahead of us. God is movement. God is life.…
Lent is a journey, yet it is also about taking time not to move. We slow down, take time to examine where we are, who we are, and the world that surrounds us, and bring this awareness into the presence of the God who journeys, and stops, with us. Slowing down, stopping, can be uncomfortable. It is often easier to keep moving,…
Sharing one bread Week 1: Weekend Reading 1 Corinthians 11.23-31 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in…
Embracing the body Week 1: Friday Reading Ephesians 4.7-16 But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said, ‘When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his people.’ (When it says, ‘He ascended’, what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower…
Part of one unfolding story Week 1: Thursday Reading Ephesians 4.1-6 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of…
The dangers of dualism Week 1: Wednesday Access an audio version of this reflection via our free app for Apple and Android devices. Reading Ephesians 4.1-6 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,…
Reuniting all things Week 1: Tuesday Access an audio version of this reflection via our free app for Apple and Android devices. Reading Isaiah 11.6-9 The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear…