26 April 2026
10:30 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
Acts 2:42-47
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
Many were baptised and were added to the community.
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship,
to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Awe came upon everyone
because many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.
All who believed were together and had all things in common;
they would sell their possessions and goods
and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.
Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple,
they broke bread at home
and ate their food with glad and generous hearts,
praising God and having the goodwill of all the people.
And day by day the Lord added to their number
those who were being saved.
1 Peter 2:19-25
A readiing from the first letter of Peter.
Brothers and sisters:
It is a credit to you, if being aware of God,
you endure pain while suffering unjustly.
If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that?
But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it,
you have God's approval.
For to this you have been called,
because Christ also suffered for you,
leaving you an example,
so that you should follow in his steps.
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
When he was abused, he did not return abuse;
when he suffered, he did not threaten,
but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,
so that, freed from sins, we might live for righteousness;
by his wounds you have been healed.
For you were going astray like sheep,
but now you have returned
to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
John 10:1-10
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.
Jesus said to the Pharisees:
“Very truly, I tell you,
anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate
but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit.
The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him,
and the sheep hear his voice.
He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
When he has brought out all his own,
he goes ahead of them,
and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
They will not follow a stranger,
but they will run from him
because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
Jesus used this figure of speech with them,
but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
So again Jesus said to them,
“Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
All who came before me are thieves and bandits,
but the sheep did not listen to them.
I am the gate.
Whoever enters by me will be saved
and will come in and go out and find pasture.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
19 April 2026
Acts 2:14a, 36-41
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
On the day of Pentecost,
Peter, standing with the eleven,
raised his voice and addressed the crowd,
Let the entire house of Israel know with certainty
that God has made him both Lord and Messiah,
this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart
and said to Peter and to the other apostles,
“Brothers, what should we do?”
Peter said to them,
“Repent and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ
so that your sins may be forgiven,
and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For the promise is for you, for your children,
and for all who are far away,
everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.”
And he testified with many other arguments
and exhorted them, saying,
“Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”
So those who welcomed his message were baptized,
and that day about three thousand persons
were added to their number.
1 Peter 1:17-23
A reading from the first letter of Peter.
If you invoke as Father
the one who judges impartially according their deeds,
live in reverent fear during the time of your exile.
You know that you were ransomed
from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors,
not with perishable things like silver or gold
but with the precious blood of Christ,
like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.
He was destined before the foundation of the world
but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.
Through him you have come to trust in God,
who raised him from the dead and gave him glory,
so that your trust and hope are in God.
Now that you have purified your souls
by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love,
love one another deeply from the heart.
You have been born anew,
not of perishable but of imperishable seed,
through the living and enduring word of God.
Luke 24:13-35
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ accordiing to Luke.
On that same day
two of the disciples were going to a village called Emmaus,
about seven miles from Jerusalem,
and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
While they were talking and discussing,
Jesus himself came near and went with them,
but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
And he said to them,
“What are you discussing with each other while you walk along?”
They stood still, looking sad.
Then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered him,
“Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem
who does not know the things
that have taken place there in these days?”
He asked them, “What things?”
They replied, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth,
who was a prophet mighty in deed and word
before God and all the people,
and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over
to be condemned to death and crucified him.
But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel.
Yes, and besides all this,
it is now the third day since these things took place.
Moreover, some women of our group astounded us.
They were at the tomb early this morning,
and when they did not find his body there
they came back
and told us that they had indeed seen a vision of angels
who said that he was alive.
Some of those who were with us went to the tomb
and found it just as the women had said,
but they did not see Jesus.”
Then he said to them,
“Oh, how foolish you are
and how slow of heart
to believe all that the prophets have declared!
Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things
and then enter into his glory?”
Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets,
he interpreted to them
the things about himself in all the scriptures.
As they came near the village to which they were going,
he walked ahead as if he were going on.
But they urged him strongly, saying,
“Stay with us, because it is almost evening
and the day is now nearly over.”
So he went in to stay with them.
When he was at the table with them,
he took bread, blessed and broke it,
and gave it to them.
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him,
and he vanished from their sight.
They said to each other,
“Were not our hearts burning within us
while he was talking to us on the road,
while he was opening the scriptures to us?”
That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem,
and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together.
They were saying,
“The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!”
Then they told what had happened on the road
and how he had been made known to them
in the breaking of the bread.
12 April 2026
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
On the day of Pentecost
Peter, standing with the eleven,
raised his voice, and addressed the crowd.
"You that are Israelites,
listen to what I have to say:
Jesus of Nazareth,
a man attested to you by God with deeds of power, wonders, and signs
that God did through him among you, as you yourselves know—
this man, handed over to you
according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God,
you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law.
But God raised him up, having released him from the agony of death,
because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.
For David says concerning him,
‘I saw the Lord always before me,
for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken;
therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;
moreover, my flesh will live in hope.
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades
or let your Holy One experience corruption.
You have made known to me the ways of life;
you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
“Fellow Israelites,
I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David
that he both died and was buried,
and his tomb is with us to this day.
Since he was a prophet,
he knew that God had sworn with an oath to him #that he would put one of his descendants on his throne.
Foreseeing this,
David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, saying,
‘He was not abandoned to Hades,
nor did his flesh experience corruption.’
“This Jesus God raised up,
and of that all of us are witnesses.
1 Peter 1:3-9
A reading from the first letter of Peter.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
and into an inheritance
that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading,
kept in heaven for you,
who are being protected by the power of God through faith
for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
In this you rejoice,
even if now for a little while
you have had to suffer various trials,
so that the genuineness of your faith—
being more precious than gold that,
though perishable, is tested by fire—
may be found to result in praise and glory and honour
when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Although you have not seen him, you love him,
and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him
and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
for you are receiving the outcome of your faith,
the salvation of your souls.
John 20:19-31
Hear the gosple of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.
When it was evening on the first day of the week,
and the doors of the house where the disciples had met
were locked for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood among them and said,
“Peace be with you.”
After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again,
“Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them;
if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve,
was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples told him,
“We have seen the Lord.”
But he said to them,
“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands
and put my finger in the mark of the nails
and my hand in his side,
I will not believe.”
A week later his disciples were again in the house,
and Thomas was with them.
Although the doors were shut,
Jesus came and stood among them and said,
“Peace be with you.”
Then he said to Thomas,
“Put your finger here and see my hands.
Reach out your hand and put it in my side.
Do not doubt but believe.”
Thomas answered him,
“My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him,
“Have you believed because you have seen me?
Blessed are those who have not seen
and yet have come to believe.”
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples
that are not written in this book.
But these are written so that you may come to believe
that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God,
and that through believing you may have life in his name.
10 April 2026
Apologies for the late apperance of this as I was away and did not get the reading list before I went.
Hoping that you all had a Happy Easter and I am sure our thoughts are with the people who were baptised on this most auspicious of days.
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
Peter began to speak to those assembled in the house of Cornelius:
“I truly understand that God shows no partiality,
but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right
is acceptable to him.
You know the message he sent to the people of Israel,
preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all.
That message spread throughout Judea,
beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced:
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Spirit and with power;
how he went about doing good
and healing all who were oppressed by the devil,
for God was with him.
We are witnesses to all that he did
both in Judea and in Jerusalem.
They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,
but God raised him on the third day
and allowed him to appear,
not to all the people
but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses
and who ate and drank with him after
he rose from the dead.
He commanded us to preach to the people
and to testify that he is the one ordained by God
as judge of the living and the dead.
All the prophets testify about him
that everyone who believes in him
receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Colossians 3:1-4
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Colossians.
If you have been raised with Christ,
seek the things that are above,
where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on the things that are above,
not on the things that are on earth,
for you have died,
and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ who is your life is revealed,
then you also will be revealed with him in glory.
Matthew 28:1-10
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
After the Sabbath,
as the first day of the week was dawning,
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.
And suddenly there was a great earthquake,
for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven,
came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.
His appearance was like lightning
and his clothing white as snow.
For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men.
But the angel said to the women,
“Do not be afraid,
for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.
He is not here,
for he has been raised, as he said.
Come, see the place where he lay.
Then go quickly and tell his disciples,
‘He has been raised from the dead,
and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee;
there you will see him.’
This is my message for you.”
So they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy
and ran to tell his disciples.
Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!”
And they came to him,
took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
Then Jesus said to them,
“Do not be afraid;
go and tell my brothers and sisters to go to Galilee;
there they will see me.”
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