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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 162
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 162
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
How God Became King - 8c Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism
How God Became King - 8c Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism
by SPCK - N T Wright
Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism As we saw earlier, the Judaism of the postexilic period had quite a well-developed narrative of God and empire. Even though many Jews longed for God to become king in the full, complete way he’d promised, they still believed that in t…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Israelites in Egypt
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Israelites in Egypt
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Israelites in Egypt The descendants of Jacob number seventy when they arrive in Egypt. They multiply and fill the land of Egypt with language reminiscent of the fertility of creation in Genesis (Exod. 1:7; Gen. 1:28)…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Solomon: The Temple-Birther
The Women's Bible Commentary - Solomon: The Temple-Birther
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Solomon: The Temple-Birther The man of peace (1 Chr. 22:9), Solomon, is a peculiar character in Chronicles. Stripped of his role as temple builder, and relegated to being a mere general contractor and decorator, he is also stripped of his women: no catalogue of wives and secondar…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Easter - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Easter - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Easter - Year C Service contents: Hymn: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing or Come in the morning Prayer: Easter Day Prayer Reading: Isaiah 65:17-25 Hymn: This joyful Eastertide or Jerusalem rejoice and sing Reading: John 20:1-18 Poem: Mary Magdalene Hymn: Now the green blade r…
Full Service - Proper 14 (19) - Year C
Full Service - Proper 14 (19) - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Proper 14 (19) - Year C Service contains: Hymn: Sing for God’s glory that colours the dawn of creation or Sing praise to God who reigns above or The dawn of a mystery, the presence of riches Prayer: Ever-present God Reading: Psalm 50:1-8, 22-23 Poem: Forgetting God Hymn: Speak to…
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 212
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 212
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
journeying with John - 7 Pentecost He breathed on them
journeying with John - 7 Pentecost He breathed on them
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
7 Pentecost He breathed on them As we have noted on more than one occasion, the equivalent of the Acts account of Pentecost occurs in John’s Gospel in 20.19 –23. So far in this book we taken the resurrection passages out of order because of the way the Christian year falls…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3b Jesus as a landless prophet and the situation of Palestine today
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3b Jesus as a landless prophet and the situation of Palestine today
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Jesus as a landless prophet and the situation of Palestine today What were the issues for Jesus and the community for which Luke wrote regarding justice for the earth? Even though this was a community treading lightly on the earth compared with ourselves, ecological justice was f…
Great Christian Thinkers - 62 St. Gertrude the Great
Great Christian Thinkers - 62 St. Gertrude the Great
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Gertrude the Great St. Gertrude the Great brings us once again to the monastery of Helfta, where several of the Latin-German masterpieces of religious literature were written by women. Gertrude belonged to this world. She is one of the most famous mystics, the only German wom…
A Shady Character
A Shady Character
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama Monologue: A shady character Exodus 24: 12-18 Last Sunday before Lent year A ‘Get your sun-specs here, folks! Guaranteed to a factor of X – or something like it! Protect your eyes from the rays. Super quality. Never let you down. You’ll need ‘em any day now, ‘cos he’ll be c…
friends, FOES and families - Brothers reunited: Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers
friends, FOES and families - Brothers reunited: Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Brothers reunited: Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers Genesis 32-33, 42-45 Risen Jesus, shine your resurrection light into the darkness of lives burdened by sin and overtaken by tragedy...
Reflection: Impossibilities