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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday after Epiphany - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday after Epiphany - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Second Sunday after Epiphany - Year A Order of Service contains: Opening Hymn: Prayer: Welcoming God Hymn: Reading: Isaiah 49:1-7 Hymn: Reading John 1:29-42 Sermon idea: Failure – Reflection on John 1:29-42 Hymn: Prayer: God who has called us Hymn: Blessing Andrew Pratt (born 1…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Introduction
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter Three ATHENE AND HER OWL: THE WISDOM OF THE GREEKS Introduction Perhaps it was the questions Homer raised and never answered: why the vain Olympians should interfere in Agamemnon’s war; or how air, water, earth and fire combine into a kosmos; how we can be ‘free’; what ma…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Conclusion
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Conclusion
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL Conclusion The worldview of a first-century Pharisee has thus come into focus. Living somewhere on the spectrum between the extreme and possibly violent zeal of the ardent Shammaite and the extreme an…
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 - The Theology of a Pharisee
Paul and the Faithfulness of God - The Theology of a Pharisee
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL The Theology of a Pharisee It is not difficult to draw out from what has already been said the main lines of Pharisaic theology, bringing into brief and I hope sharp focus the larger and longer treatm…
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 - A World Transformed, Not Abolished
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - A World Transformed, Not Abolished
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL (iv) A World Transformed, Not Abolished What then was the hope of a first-century Pharisee? One obvious answer might be, ‘salvation’. But what might ‘salvation’ actually mean? A good deal of the secon…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - First Sunday after Epiphany - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - First Sunday after Epiphany - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
First Sunday after Epiphany Year A Baptism of the Lord Order of Service contains: Opening Hymn Prayer: based on Psalm 29 Reading - Isaiah 42:1-9 Hymn Reading - Matthew 3:13-17 Hymn Sermon ideas: Meditation: Promise Drama/monologue: John and Jesus Hymn Prayer: God, you set us on …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second after Christmas - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second after Christmas - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Full Service-Second after Christmas - Year A See also the Covenant Service Hymn: Prayer: Reading Jeremiah 31:7-14 Hymn: Reading John 1:1-9; 10-18 Who needs words? Sermon idea Hymn: Prayer: Meditation related to John 1:10-18 Hymn: Blessing Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © (DATE*…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Epiphany - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Epiphany - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Full Service- Epiphany - Year A Call to Worship Hymn: Prayer: Reading: Isaiah 60:1-6 Hymn: Reading: Matthew 2:1-12 Magi Sermon idea - Eastern strangers Hymn: Prayer: Hymn: Blessing Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Covenant
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Covenant
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Covenant Service It is assumed that the liturgy of the Covenant Service will be used, but the following suggestions may freshen it or give it a different perspective. Numbers in the following text refer to paragraph numbers in the Methodist Worship Book from page 281. Hymn: Praye…
Paul and the Faithfulness of God - The Story Retold : After AD 70
Paul and the Faithfulness of God - The Story Retold : After AD 70
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL (ii) The Continuous Story (d) The Story Retold: After AD 70 It might have appeared that with the destruction of the Temple in AD 70 the great narrative had come to an end. Some of the most important r…
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Select bibliography
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Select bibliography
by SPCK - David J. Bryan
Select bibliography Bagatti, Fr Bellarmino, Excavations in Nazareth, trans. Fr Eugene Hoarde (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing House, 1969). Barker, Gregory A. and Stephen E. Gregg (eds), Jesus Beyond Christianity: The Classic Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)...
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Conclusion
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Conclusion
by SPCK - David J. Bryan
Conclusion We come then to the close of this book. In the first four chapters my aim was to help you imagine Jesus’ world, his home and the journeys he took with his family from Nazareth to Jerusalem to celebrate the pilgrim festival of the Passover. I then sought to set in conte…
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Faltering footsteps with Jesus
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Faltering footsteps with Jesus
by SPCK - David J. Bryan
Faltering footsteps with Jesus Introduction In this final chapter I will be inviting you to travel onwards with Jesus, sustained by his dream of the kingdom of God, which was the hope of a world of justice and peace. The stories we will think about are connected with Shechem, whi…
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Jesus challenged at the boundaries
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Jesus challenged at the boundaries
by SPCK - David J. Bryan
Jesus: his challenge Introduction So far we have considered: * Jesus’ home in Nazareth; * Jesus’ annual journey with his family as they went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem; * Jesus’ incredible challenge that we should love our enemies...
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Jesus: his challenge