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The kingdom of God is to be sought out like the finest of pearls. One of Jesus’s artful stories told in this week’s lectionary: Matthew 13:44-52

There are plenty of places to read the bible online—the BibleGateway being about the best. But now there is YouVersion, a completely fresh Web 2.0 approach to engaging with the ancient texts, in community.

If you browse the online resources in search of help for Sunday’s service, you’ll notice that in America it is also Mother’s Day! In fact on some of the usually great web sites I regularly check on, you wouldn’t know it was Pentecost this week.

Jesus promises help from the helper - a hands on approach to living as Jesus taught us. This week’s graphic focuses on the fact that our helper is nothing like that annoying little paper clip that used to pop up with help in Microsoft Office, before I ditched it. The lectionary text is found in [...]

I haven’t quite managed a lectionary graphic over the past couple of weeks, but here is one for this week’s gospel reading (John 14:1-14). This passage seems full of lots of phrases people quote a lot, but very rarely put together as they are here. At funerals you’ll hear the “many dwelling places”; fundamentalists [...]