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Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Speak
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Speak
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
We often forget that who we are speaks to others all the time, whether we open our mouths or not. From time to time our being may be silent and still, yet it emanates. It speaks without words. For some this awareness leads to self-consciousness. They feel too exposed, too vulnera…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Walk
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Walk
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
We both walk away from things and towards them. We speak of a person’s walk of life. We admire those who walk their talk. Whether in protest or in praise, walking implies intention, direction, and purpose. Walking has been used as a way of devotion and prayer for thousands of yea…
Mark The People's Commentary - An Abortive "Retreat"
Mark The People's Commentary - An Abortive "Retreat"
by BRF - Dick France
An Abortive “Retreat” This is the only time in Mark’s Gospel that the Twelve are called ‘apostles’. The word means ‘those sent out’, and it describes well the experience they have just shared as Jesus’ emissaries. But having been ‘sent out’, they now return and report back to the…
John The People's Commentary - Bread from Heaven
John The People's Commentary - Bread from Heaven
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Bread from Heaven Jesus and the crowd have been debating the meaning of the feeding and the last section concentrated on the issue of Jesus’ identity. Suddenly it is no longer a matter of whether he is ‘the prophet like Moses’ who can feed people in the mountains as Moses did. Hi…
50 Praise, Pray and Play Sessions - Breakfast on the beach
50 Praise, Pray and Play Sessions - Breakfast on the beach
by BRF - Rona Orme
Jesus continued to appear to his disciples and followers in the days following his resurrection. None of them was sure if they would see Jesus again and they often seem to have been taken by surprise. In John 21, seven of the disciples (Simon Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, James, John…
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