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The lectionary is intended to provide the church with a full and balanced reading plan for the entire Bible, and its texts have served as the basis for sermons, meditation, reflection, and personal devotions for millions of Christians around the world for almost 2,000 years. Lectionary Reflections: Year B brings together Jane Williams’ widely read and much enjoyed Church Times columns on the...

this passage reminds us that Jesus’s bodily existence does not begin and end on the cross. Many of us who hope and pray that we will never be called upon to suffer as he did on the cross can remember that he also suffered from hunger, weariness, stress and all the more common symptoms of embodied living. Is it accidental that Ephesians puts so much emphasis on the bodiliness of the way in which our salvation was achieved? Ephesians 2:14 does not say, as you might expect, that Jesus’s physical suffering
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