Lent for Everyone Year A - Sunday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Sunday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 1: SUNDAY Psalm 32 A long time ago, when I had just learnt to drive, I ran out of petrol on a lonely country road. I gratefully accepted some fuel from a nearby farmer. What he didn’t tell me was that it was a mixture designed not for a car, but for a lawn mower. I got back …
Lent for Everyone Year A - Sunday: First Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Sunday: First Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: SUNDAY Psalm 121 1 I must have sung this Psalm a hundred, perhaps a thousand, times before I stopped to think about the famous first verse. (I have seen it carved above doors and mantelpieces in mountainous parts of the country, sometimes in Latin.) ‘I lift my eyes to …
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Praying in the Faith
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Praying in the Faith
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 1 NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING ON PRAYER OTHER CHRISTIAN TEACHING PRAYING IN FAITH James 5: 13-18 There are many things in life which look extremely odd to someone who doesn’t know what’s going on. Imagine watching a craftsman making a musical instrument if you’d never heard music…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 13 Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 13 Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 13 2 Samuel 11.26-12.13a Ephesians 4.1-16 John 6.24-35 Hands up those who took one look at this week’s Old Testament lesson and gave it a wide berth. All right; now hands up those who seized upon it as a chance to preach on How Not To Commit Immorality. Full marks to the l…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 1: FRIDAY... ...I suspect, of course, that if we’d sat these poets down in a cool, easy moment and asked them, ‘Did you really think God was asleep?’, they might have said, ‘Well, no; he is God, after all; but it certainly seemed as though he’d …
Job for Everyone - Leviathan
Job for Everyone - Leviathan
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Leviathan Job 41:1- 34 My wife is a bit apprehensive about monsters and can occasionally be scared for a moment by a shadow that might be some strange creature. For our honeymoon she was nevertheless keen to go to Scotland, from where her ancestors came, even though Scotland is a…
Prayer: Sometimes the things we
Prayer: Sometimes the things we
by Andrew Pratt
Prayer: Sometimes the things we Sometimes the things we face undermine our resolve and destroy our confidence. Problems tower above us and we see no way to overcome them. When these things happen, as they have, and probably will again, give us, O God, humility and simplicity. Con…
Rhythms of remembering - Easter - Wednesday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Easter - Wednesday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
EASTER - Wednesday Evening Prayer Alleluia, blessed is Jesus, the true Cornerstone, alleluia. No longer are we strangers or foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,...
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Monday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Monday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Monday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God, source of all wisdom and understanding. O powerful Wisdom, you encircle all that is, holding everything together in one life-giving path. Hildegard of Bingen...
Rhythms of remembering - Saturday Night Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Saturday Night Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
Midday and Night Prayer for all seasons Saturday Night Prayer In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. Isaiah 30.15 For all the good I have seen and done today, I give thanks...
Rhythms of remembering - Advent - Thursday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Advent - Thursday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ADVENT - Thursday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you come to set your people free. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness...
The Living God - A Personal God
The Living God - A Personal God
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
A personal God: love and faithfulness 2 A personal God All of us like to complain about our employers. I met up with someone I had known back in the days when I was a research student in Oxford. Over a cup of tea I asked him how he was getting on at the college where he now worke…
The Living God - Images as windows into God