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Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Monday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Monday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER MONDAY... ...When I became Dean of Lichfield in 1994, one of the first things I saw as I was shown around the magnificent cathedral was the place where the building had been, as it were, stitched back together again after the serious damage it…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Thursday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Thursday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER THURSDAY... ...As the Nazi party was increasing its power in pre-war Germany, the great theologian Karl Barth, still at that stage teaching in Bonn, came into contact one day with one of the party officials. The policies that had made the Nazi…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Wednesday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Wednesday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER WEDNESDAY... ...Easter, in the northern hemisphere at least, is a time when all sorts of plants are starting to come up. Sometimes there are surprises. I well remember raising my eyebrows a few years ago when bulbs we had totally forgotten abo…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Tuesday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Tuesday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER TUESDAY... ...I have often used, as an illustration, the way in which signposts work. A signpost tells you not where you are at the moment, but where you are going to. You don’t put a sign (I have often said) saying ‘This Way to London’ in Pic…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 SATURDAY... ...Reports suggest that there are plenty of people today who are so distant from the story of Jesus that they can watch a children’s play about him without realizing what’s going to happen. They are then shocked to the core at the …
Journeying With Mark Year B - Easter
Journeying With Mark Year B - Easter
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
6 Easter Exploring the text Probably one of the best-known features of Mark’s Gospel is its ending – or, depending on your perspective, its lack of ending. Unlike the other Gospels, the accounts of resurrection in Mark are sparse in the extreme. In Matthew an angel appears to Mar…
The King of the Trees
The King of the Trees
by Kate Abbott
Easter based Reading - Suitable for other points in the year the King of the trees is a reflecton based on Judges 9:8-14 and carries on the stories of the fig, olive, vine and thorn as they come to play their part in the story of Jesus. Extract: Then one day a man, with a red swa…
A Dead Sect
A Dead Sect
by Roger Johnson
Evangelism Bulletin 266 – A Dead Sect? John Wesley famously said, ‘I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist… But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 4.32-35 1 John 1.1-2.2 John 20.19-31 ‘Peace be with you’, said Jesus. And again, two verses later, ‘Peace be with you.’ Like a great bell, a single note with multiple overtones, the promise of peace tolls out across the world. Not just an inner pe…
Numbers in the Bible Assembly Collection - The 10 Commandments Assembly