Living Liturgies | Transition time resources for services, prayer and conversation with older people - Light | Living Liturgies
Living Liturgies | Transition time resources for services, prayer and conversation with older people - Light | Living Liturgies
by BRF - Caroline George
We often take light for granted but, when the nights draw in, we realise how much we miss it. We are familiar with light as an image of God, but today we shall consider the problems with that image for those who are blind and live in darkness. A creative and original book of litu…
Living Liturgies | Transition time resources for services, prayer and conversation with older people - Keys to the door | Living Liturgies
Living Liturgies | Transition time resources for services, prayer and conversation with older people - Keys to the door | Living Liturgies
by BRF - Caroline George
Today we think about keys and doors, the people who have opened doors for us, doors of opportunity and doors to our faith. A creative and original book of liturgies and reflections for use in worship and also pastoral ministry with older people, who are moving from the 'third age…
Simply Good News - Have We Really Met the True God?
Simply Good News - Have We Really Met the True God?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Have We Really Met the True God? How can we put all this together? As we look back across the centuries, we notice a recurring theme when people stop for a moment and ask themselves the big questions. Who are we? Where are we? What are we here for – other than to feed, fight, and…
Simply Good News - Creator, Judge, Lover
Simply Good News - Creator, Judge, Lover
by SPCK - N T Wright
Creator, Judge, Lover The first is that the one true God is the creator of the world. We have thought about this before, but I want to stress here that this really is good news. We are not cast adrift in an alien environment. There’s an old hymn that begins, ‘This is my Father’s …
Simply Good News - Turning the Good News into Bad News
Simply Good News - Turning the Good News into Bad News
by SPCK - N T Wright
Turning the Good News into Bad News The first of these, then, has to do with the popular view of what Christianity is all about – and when I say the popular view, I mean the view of most people inside the church as well as outside. Most people in the Western world think of Christ…
Simply Good News - The Competing Gospels of Rationalism and Romanticism
Simply Good News - The Competing Gospels of Rationalism and Romanticism
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Competing Gospels of Rationalism and Romanticism The second problem has infected both the church and the world for the last two or three hundred years at least. Again, this is not the place to explain how all the complicated ideas in modern European and American thought came …
Simply Good News - Can we Trust the Gospels?
Simply Good News - Can we Trust the Gospels?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Can we Trust the Gospels? Let’s start with the obvious problem. Can we trust the Gospels? Answering that properly would take another whole book, and indeed I’ve written one or two on that topic. Despite a continuing chorus of scepticism, I and many other scholars who have studied…
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of Kingdom
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of Kingdom
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Different Kind of Kingdom Americans often tell me this. ‘We used to have kings,’ they say, ‘but we gave them up. You British understand these things; we don’t.’ This is a misunderstanding. The constitutional monarchy we have today in the United Kingdom is quite different from a…
Mark The People's Commentary - Insider and outsiders
Mark The People's Commentary - Insider and outsiders
by BRF - Dick France
Insiders and outsiders Here is the other end of the ‘sandwich’ which began in verses 20–21; the family have arrived. At the same time, a further layer is added to the sandwich, in that the inner circle of the disciples, whose call was narrated just before the family were introduc…
Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
The room and the keys The Hebrew has passed on a beautiful tradition to us; it has to do with divine Scripture in its entirety. According to this man, all of divinely inspired Scripture, because of the obscurity that is in it, can be compared to many locked rooms in a house. Next…
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Abbreviations and Introduction With these few elementary notes on lectio divina, we hope to have provided readers with an opportunity to renew or develop a taste for a way of reading Scripture which is as old as the church itself, and which has deep roots in Judaism. I don’t thin…
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Series Foreword To read Enzo Bianchi’s work is, among other things, to be forcefully made aware that we have got used to a rather thin diet of resources to help us read the Bible. We have plenty of good scholarship and plenty of good popular summaries of that scholarship – but ve…
Times and Seasons - Full Service-Fifth Sunday of Easter-Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service-Fifth Sunday of Easter-Year B
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Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B Service contains: Hymn: God is love: let heaven adore him or Each hour marks a mighty resurrection Prayer: Meditation/poem/prayer: If love is the centre of God’s being Song/Hymn: When I needed a neighbor, were you there or See your brother in each …
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - Sanctify Them in the Truth
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - Sanctify Them in the Truth
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Sanctify Them in the Truth In his prayer, Jesus has described how he manifested the name of God to his disciples and has prayed for their protection in the world which he is leaving as ‘I am coming to you’ (17:13). Before he leaves, however, he speaks this prayer still in the wor…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - ABIDE IN LOVE
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - ABIDE IN LOVE
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
ABIDE IN LOVE Jesus uses the image of the vine to describe his relationship with his disciples, even when he is physically absent. He is the ‘true’ or ‘real vine’, and we are branches which must remain in the vine to bear fruit, the fruit of love, one of John’s key themes. Jesus …
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - From GARDEN to COURTYARD