LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Micah 6:1-8 Psalm 15 1st Corinthians 1:18-31 Matthew 5:1-12 If we read God’s law in the Pentateuch it looks long and complex, but in Micah it is summed up in a few words. All that God requires of his people is that they “act justl…
Psalms for Everyone - Self-Knowledge or Self-Deception
Psalms for Everyone - Self-Knowledge or Self-Deception
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Self-Knowledge or Self-Deception Psalm 18: 25-50 I know some Christians who have had affairs, and I have come closer to doing so than I should have done. When Christians talk about their affairs, the story regularly involves an element of denial and/or self-deception. Maybe the p…
Psalms for Everyone - The Lowly Will Inherit the Land
Psalms for Everyone - The Lowly Will Inherit the Land
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Lowly Will Inherit the Earth Psalm 37: 1-20 The day before yesterday, in a demonstration that turned violent, the police station a quarter of a mile from where I lived as a child in Birmingham, England, and a quarter of a mile from my church there, was set on fire. One has a …
Psalms for Everyone - The Mystery of Sin
Psalms for Everyone - The Mystery of Sin
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Mystery of Sin Psalm 19 One of the Christians I know who have had affairs had three such relationships and got away with two without anyone knowing. Then some people discovered about the third (I don’t know what his wife might have suspected), which was how he came to be talk…
Psalms for Everyone - Thus Far and No Further
Psalms for Everyone - Thus Far and No Further
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Thus Far and No Further Psalm 8 The crying of babies and sucklings is hard to listen to yet hard to avoid. In the area that is now South Sudan, one in seven children dies before his or her fifth birthday. In Darfur, countless young girls have been raped and abducted. The media re…
Psalms for Everyone - Did You Have Your Eyes Shut, Then?
Psalms for Everyone - Did You Have Your Eyes Shut, Then?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Did You Have Your Eyes Shut, Then? Psalm 37: 21-40 There’s a poem by Jacqueline Osherow in which she imagines a Jewish boy who has learned the Psalms by heart saying them at Auschwitz and puzzling over Psalm 37 (“Psalm 37 at Auschwitz,” in Dead Men’s Praise [New York: Grove Press…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - From Story to Question: the Implicit Phariasic Worldview
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - From Story to Question: the Implicit Phariasic Worldview
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL (vi) From Story to Question: the Implicit Pharisaic Worldview Praxis, symbol and story lead the eye to the implicit questions which, we have argued, can be raised within any worldview. Who are we, whe…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Aims of a Zealous Pharisee
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Aims of a Zealous Pharisee
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL The Aims of a Zealous Pharisee Part of the answer to this question is easy; part is more controversial. The two outer limits are easy. First, personal purity. This has been sufficiently explored in ma…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Who Were the Pharisees?
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Who Were the Pharisees?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL 2 Who Were the Pharisees? Twenty years ago or so there took place a massive debate about who exactly the Pharisees were.11 The debaters included heavyweights like Ed Sanders and Jacob Neusner, with th…
The Pursuit of Happyness Bible Study Pt1
The Pursuit of Happyness Bible Study Pt1
by Tim Marshall
This is a Bible Study based on themes taken from The Pursuit of Happyness film staring Will Smith. It is based around a real story of Chris Gardner, a medical equipment salesman who goes on to become a successful stock broker. This is the first part (of 10) and uses the first 10 …
The Trinity Explained