Bible Texts

To accompany the daily Bible texts which appear in the EDP, our team of Christian writers is now offering commentaries. We hope everyone will find this area helpful, as it develops over the weeks into a focus for daily meditations.

For those already familiar with the Bible, we hope it offers food for thought, and perhaps a new way of looking at the texts. For those with less experience of reading the Bible, we hope our commentaries will introduce the texts, and help to make their meaning clearer.

Bible commentaries for July are provided by Biddy Collyer

The commentary panel is:

Jean Larner, a Methodist lay preacher.
Canon David Sharp, formerly Vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, who is an Honorary Canon (emeritus) of Norwich Cathedral, classical scholar and lecturer.
Fr Dick Wilson, a retired Roman Catholic priest living in Norwich.
Biddy Collyer, a regular EDP writer and a Christian who is passionate about the love of Jesus for everyone being made real to people through the ministry of His church in Norwich and Norfolk.
Fr Antony Sutch, Catholic parish priest at St Benet's, Beccles, and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.
Roman Catholic author Anita Dowsing.

Psalm 104 - 30

When you send your Spirit, new life is born to replenish all the living of the earth.

Genesis 1-2

The earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface.

2 Paul to Timothy - 2

We may be unfaithful, but he (Jesus) is always faithful, for he cannot disown his own self.

2 Corinthians - 5

For our sake God made the sinless one with sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God.

2 Corinthians - 5

God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men's faults against them, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled.

2 Corinthians - 1

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, a gentle Father and the God of all consolation, who comforts us in our sorrows, so that we can offer others, in their sorrows, the consolation that we have received.