Past weeks’ Sunday Toolkits, kept here once they roll off the current view on the Sunday Toolkit page.
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time — 27th September 2026
Judges 4:12-22 — Jael | 1 Timothy 5:1-16 — Widows
A sharp, confronting Old Testament story of a woman acting decisively on her own terms, paired with the early church working out, in real time, its obligations to its most vulnerable members. Spill the Beans has a resource built specifically for this pairing.
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time — 20th September 2026
Judges 4:1-7 — Deborah | 1 Timothy 2:1-15 — Women Silent/Saved
Deborah is trusted with authority the text never bothers to explain, while just a few verses of 1 Timothy later a woman is told to stay silent. Two readings pulling in opposite directions on exactly the same question, paired with a Spill the Beans resource built for this exact week.
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time — 13th September 2026
Numbers 27:1-11 — Mahlah and her sisters | Colossians 4:2-15 — Nympha
Five sisters walk up to Moses and insist their father’s name and land not simply disappear because he had no son — and the law changes on the spot. Paired with one line, easy to skim past, naming Nympha as a woman who hosted a whole church in her own house.
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time — 6th September 2026
Exodus 15:1-11, 20-21 — Miriam and the Song of the Sea | Philippians 4:1-9 — Euodia and Syntyche
A rare confirmed match: Spill the Beans holds a resource written for this exact pairing. Miriam leads the women out with tambourines on the far side of the sea, while Paul pleads with two named leaders, Euodia and Syntyche, to find their way back to one another.
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time — 30th August 2026
Exodus 3:1-15 — the burning bush | Romans 12:9-21 — let love be genuine | Matthew 16:21-28 — the rebuke, and the cross
A fifth Sunday, with a guest preacher continuing straight on from the week before on the Revised Common Lectionary rather than our usual Women’s Lectionary. Carries a care note on “take up your cross” worth reading before writing any prayers — that phrase has a history of being used to tell people to stay in harmful situations, which is not what the text is asking.
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time — 23rd August 2026
Romans 12:1-8 — the living sacrifice | Matthew 16:13-20 — Peter’s confession
A guest preacher brought her own readings partway through the week, so this post carries a correction note at the top — the encouragement and notable dates still apply, but the reading notes and other sections were built for a different pair of texts (Exodus 1:8–2:10 and Galatians 4:21-30).
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time — 16th August 2026
Genesis 39:1-20 — Potiphar’s Wife | Mark 10:2-16 — Divorce
Carries a “What We Actually Used” note at the top, comparing the service as it was actually led against what the toolkit had researched beforehand.
