The Post Evangelical - 4 Longing to grow
The Post Evangelical - 4 Longing to grow
by SPCK - Dave Tomlinson
4 Longing to grow I want to tell you a couple of stories. The first is about Barbara who was a ‘mish-kid’ (child of missionaries). Although she had always been included in the church family with her folks, she had been taught from quite an early age that she would need to come to…
The Post Evangelical - 5 Woolly liberals?
The Post Evangelical - 5 Woolly liberals?
by SPCK - Dave Tomlinson
5 Woolly liberals? And so to the crunch question: isn’t post-evangelical just another way of saying ‘woolly liberal’? It never ceases to amaze me how paranoid evangelicals are about liberalism. Any deviation from the ‘straight and narrow’ and, ‘Whoa! I think you need to be carefu…
The Post Evangelical - 3 World's apart
The Post Evangelical - 3 World's apart
by SPCK - Dave Tomlinson
3 Worlds Apart As I have already stated, the post-evangelical impetus quite often draws its initial strength from the sense of irritation many people feel with evangelical ‘culture’. I would now like to illustrate this with some concrete examples. If it were simply a case of diff…
Times and Seasons - Own Arrangement Service – ‘Change’
Times and Seasons - Own Arrangement Service – ‘Change’
by Christine Odell
Own Arrangement Service – ‘Change’ (You will need 2 leaders and 2 readers) Leader 1 - Call to Worship: Come, God’s people, let us worship the Living God, The God of yesterday and tomorrow, The God who makes the present moment holy And crowns us, his people, with blessings. HYMN: …
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book IV
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book IV
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Book IV (Psalm 90-106) Book IV opens with “A Prayer of Moses, the Man of God.” It is the only psalm in the Hebrew Psalter ascribed to Moses. Its words are a plea to God for mercy: “Turn [shub], O YHWH! How long? Change your mind [nakham] concerning your servants” (90:13, my trans…
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