Season of Creation: major reflections on lectionary passages

This page contains the five ‘major reflections’ (sermons useable in regular online worship), on selected Revised Common Lectionary passages, prepared by Rev David Coleman, as Environmental Chaplain, for the Season of Creation’Creationtide/Creation Time.

Dramatic location video readings of seven of the Lectionary Psalms, and all five of the Gospels used in the reflections are available

here:

Psalms under Heaven

and here:

Gospel Earthed” Gospel readings for Season of Creation/CreationTime/Creationtide 2021

For a quick check on passages not covered, you may also find ‘Green Starters” – with a paragraph on every single lectionary passage useful.

Resources are freely offered for use and adaptation to local circumstance: please get in touch if you have any additional needs in this respect.

PDF scripts, which may vary somewhat from the final edited form of the video are also offered.(Beneath each video)

As ever, please be kind, as these are offered in good faith, for devotional use, and prepared with very limited resources, though with a consciousness of the extreme urgency of change in a time of climate crisis.

WEEK1: THE EARTH, INCLUDING US

WEEK 2: CREATION SPEAKS GOD’S LANGUAGE

WEEK 3: THE TREE AND THEIR FRUIT

WEEK 4: THE OBSTACLE COURSE

WEEK 5: THE GIFT OF THE NAME (video now added)