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GOD's rich Pattern - Where to now?
GOD's rich Pattern - Where to now?
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
Where to now? The work of a public relations officer took me into many different areas. I became so well known at the BBC that the car park attendants and security staff used to greet me by my name as I came in with my trusty tape recorder. I produced many good interviews that we…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture From the Second to the Seventeenth Century
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture From the Second to the Seventeenth Century
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture from the Second to the Seventeenth Century Early Challenges (Marcion, the Gnostics, etc.) were Met with Response from Scripture, and (When Scripture Itself was Contested) with an Appeal to Early Tradition and Good Exegesis We must now compress a very long and complicate…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within Contemporary Culture
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within Contemporary Culture
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture within Contemporary Culture Scripture in Today’s World: Five Areas The Bible doesn’t just live within the church, because the church (if it is true to its own nature and vocation) is always open to God’s world. Our contemporary culture impinges on the questions that are…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within the Christian-People,BC
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within the Christian-People,BC
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture within the Kingdom-People, BC ‘God’s Kingdom’, in Old Testament and Judaism, Affirms God’s Victory over Evil The question of God’s ‘kingdom’ or ‘kingship’ is raised, in the Old Testament and in subsequent Judaism, by the presence of radical evil within the good creation…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture and Jesus
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture and Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture and Jesus Jesus Accomplishes That to Which Scripture had Pointed ‘When the time had fully come, God sent forth his son . . .’ (Galatians 4.4). Understanding Jesus within his historical context means understanding him where, according to scripture itself, he belongs. A h…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Preface
Scripture and the Authority of God - Preface
by SPCK - N T Wright
Preface Scripture and the Authority of God Writing a book about the Bible is like building a sandcastle in front of the Matterhorn. The best you can hope to do is to catch the eye of those who were looking down instead of up, or those who were so familiar with the skyline that th…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within Christianity
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within Christianity
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture within Christianity: the First 1,500 Years The place and role of the Bible within the church’s mission and common life is once again heavily contested. Current ‘battles for the Bible’ in various parts of the church – not least, but not only, within debates about sexual …
Poem: Revelation worship
Poem: Revelation worship
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Revelation worship If I had heard an angel throng, all bursting into joyous song and loudly chanting praise to God, I would have found it rather odd. If I had seen a heavenly throne, I’d have preferred to be alone and not surrounded by the glee of creatures from the earth a…
Poem: Doubt and faith
Poem: Doubt and faith
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Doubt and faith It’s easy now for us to say we would have known that Easter Day that all was well, but those who saw his cruel cross found, in their devastating loss, a living hell. It’s easy in that garden tomb to know that light pierced through the gloom and brought relie…
Playing louder than everyone else
Playing louder than everyone else
by Glen Scott Robson
Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which is 2000 x 1333 pixels and 911KB The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce imag…
Responsive prayer: based on Psalm 150
Responsive prayer: based on Psalm 150
by Marjorie Dobson
Responsive prayer: based on Psalm 150 Great God, you bring light and life into the world: we praise you and thank you. Creative God, you give us the gift of music to play, to sing, to bring joy: we praise you and thank you. Inspiring God, you help our sprits to lift and our feet …
Poem: Mary Magdalene