Gospel Readings: Matthew 14:22-33 Matthew 14:34-36 Matthew 15:1-20 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 14:22-33 After the feast in the wilderness, the disciples begin to cross the lake, while Jesus dismisses the crowds and goes up the mountain, to pray. In
Gospel Readings: Matthew 13:54-58 Matthew 14:1-12 Matthew 14:13-21 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 13:54-58 As we pick up the story this week, Matthew has just finished narrating a series of parables usually called the “parables of the kingdom”, told to
Gospel Readings: Matthew 13:31-35 Matthew 13:44-50 Matthew 13:51-53 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 13:31-35 Breaking up the parable and interpretation of the Sower, Jesus powerfully depicted the utter blindness of those who lived according to the dominant order, and
Gospel Readings: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Matthew 13:10-17 Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Straight after Jesus’ encounter with his family and “fictive kinship”—having made the point that the communities embodying God’s reign are centred around doing
Gospel Readings: Matthew 12:22-37 Matthew 12:38–45 Matthew 12:46-50 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 12:22-37 This week’s reading opens as “they”—presumably the crowds—brought to Jesus “a demoniac who was blind and mute.” The last time Jesus encountered someone who was blind,
Gospel Readings: Matthew 12:1-8 Matthew 12:9-14 Matthew 12:15-21 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 12:1-8 Today’s reading narrates an incident which finds Jesus and his disciples in “the grainfields on the sabbath.” The disciples are not merely passing through the fields
Gospel Readings: Matthew 11:1-6 Matthew 11:7-19 Matthew 11:20-30 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 11:1-6 Today’s reading follows on the mission discourse, in which Matthew’s Jesus warns his disciples of persecution which will arise as they proclaim and enact Jesus’ way
Gospel Readings: Matthew 10:1-15 Matthew 10:16-33 Matthew 10:34-42 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 10:1-15 Today’s reading marks the beginning of the second major discourse in Matthew’s Gospel. While the first, the Sermon on the Mount, centred on the social and
Gospel Readings: Matthew 9:18-26 Matthew 9:27-34 Matthew 9:35-38 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 9:18-26 Today’s reading tells a tale of two healings; a dead girl is restored to life and a woman who has been bleeding for twelve long years
Gospel Readings: Matthew 9:1-8 Matthew 9:9-13 Matthew 9:14-17 Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Matthew 9:1-8 We pick up the narrative this week with another story which Matthew has taken from Mark’s Gospel, and told it in a way which brings out