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Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Day of Pentecost Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Day of Pentecost Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Day of Pentecost Acts 2.1-21 Romans 8.22-27 John 15.26-27; 16.4b-15 It is one of the striking features of the New Testament that Luke, Paul and John, so very different as writers and theologians, sing in rich harmony when it comes to the Spirit. At the heart of the music is the…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Advent Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Advent Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Gazing on the Gospel - Year B The Fourth Sunday of Advent Luke 1.26-38 Gaze on two Renaissance masterpieces: the Annunciation by Titian, and the Annunciation by Tintoretto. Even if you have never seen them let your imagination conjure them up... Both depict the same story, but th…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - New Words for New News
Acts for Everyone part 1 - New Words for New News
by SPCK - N T Wright
New Words for New News Acts 2. 5-13 ‘These men are all Galileans, aren’t they?’ they said. 8‘So how is it that each of us can hear them in our own mother tongues? 9There are Parthians here, and Medians, Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judaea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10Phrygi…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Stephen Tells the Story
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Stephen Tells the Story
by SPCK - N T Wright
Stephen Tells the Story Acts 7.1-16 One of the most obvious differences between cricket and baseball is the way the ball is projected towards the person who is trying to hit it. As most people will know, the person who ‘pitches’ in baseball stands on a single spot, where he (or s…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The four living creatures
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The four living creatures
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
The four living creatures The allocation of the symbols to the gospels What are the four portraits of Jesus, and how can we get away from the mixed-up amalgam? A traditional visual aid has been to use the four living creatures found in Ezekiel’s vision of God (Ezek. 1.10). In the…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - David Speaks of Jesus' Resurrection
Acts for Everyone part 1 - David Speaks of Jesus' Resurrection
by SPCK - N T Wright
David Speaks of Jesus’ Resurrection Acts 2. 22-36 I watched the Press Gallery during the speech. For most of the time, the journalists looked bored. One was sharpening his pencil; another was varnishing her nails. Then, quite suddenly, all that changed. Notebooks were seized, sho…
Applecartlive's New School Shorts - Applecartlive's New School Shorts 1 - 4 bundle
Applecartlive's New School Shorts - Applecartlive's New School Shorts 1 - 4 bundle
by Applecartlive
This New School Shorts bundle contains the first four in a series of HD quality short films produced by Applecartlive and aimed at primary-aged children. A Bible story is retold in each film using everyday language and creative locations. Bundle Price: £12.00+vat The energy and…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3c Reading Luke and saving the planet
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3c Reading Luke and saving the planet
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Reading Luke and saving the planet After this brief snapshot of Palestine then and now, I return to the central issue: how does reading Luke affect the agenda of global warming? We have looked at the context for Jesus’ ministry, but what of its content?…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3 Consider the lilies of the field: Reading Luke’s Gospel and saving the planet
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3 Consider the lilies of the field: Reading Luke’s Gospel and saving the planet
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Consider the lilies of the field: Reading Luke’s Gospel and saving the planet ‘Consider the lilies….’ (Luke 12.22–31); the flowers in the grounds of Tantur Ecumenical Institute, outside Jerusalem, near the Bethlehem checkpoint, are thought to be the biblical lilies. Whether they …
Applecartlive's New School Shorts - 1. The Roof - Applecartlive
Applecartlive's New School Shorts - 1. The Roof - Applecartlive
by Applecartlive Ltd
Applecartlive's New School Shorts is a series of short films produced for children of primary school age. A Bible story is retold in each film using everyday language and creative locations. In The Roof the storyteller shares the story of Jesus healing the paralysed man after h…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 11 The Death of Jesus
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 11 The Death of Jesus
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Death of Jesus The crucifixion and death of Jesus is the “crucial” event of the shared gospel story, the climactic occurrence to which the whole course of events has been leading. Crucifixion was an excessively cruel and drawn-out mode of execution, designed to shock and inti…
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - The Bible