Week 1 – Weekend When you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this observance. And when your children ask you, “What do you mean by this observance?” you shall say, “It is the passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of…
Week 1 – Friday 11 March “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day … On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they…
Week 1 – Thursday 10 March “Afterwards Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Let my people go, so that they may celebrate a festival to me in the wilderness.” ’ But Pharaoh said, ‘Who is the Lord, that I should heed him and let Israel go?…
Week 1 – Wednesday 9 March ‘So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.’ But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?’ He said, ‘I will be with you; and this shall be the…
Week 1 – Tuesday 8 March “After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God. God heard their groaning, and God and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God looked upon the Israelites,…
Week 1 – Monday 8 March “Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, ‘Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and…
Week 1: 7 March to 13 March Exodus is a great story of justice: a people oppressed, whose very life is at stake, are rescued by God’s intervention, and led through the desert to form a new community, centred on God, defined by his justice and compassion. Action for the week Try and watch or…
Start of Lent – Weekend “Jesus said, ‘Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbour, “Let me take the speck out of your eye”, while the log is in your own eye?’ “ Reading Matthew 7.1-5…
Start of Lent – Friday 4 March “They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God … The man said, ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit…
Start of Lent – Thursday 3 March “Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness … ’So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Reading Genesis 1.24-31 And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures…