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Legion
Legion
by Andrew Gadd
Poem based on Mark 5 - Jesus heals a man with evil spirits Legion You have searched me and you know me When I was thrown away, discarded Disregarded by society, My heart hot within me, Shunned with the stigma of shame, Blamed as a cursed name, You searched me, you found me. In th…
Tangled in prejudice, lost in presumption
Tangled in prejudice, lost in presumption
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Tangled in prejudice, lost in presumption Fourth Sunday in Lent John 9. 1-41 Tangled in prejudice, lost in presumption, locked in our judgments, so sure of our ground; others are sinful, but we are the righteous, this is the truth we are sure we have found. This is our blin…
The Pharisees Question Jesus's Authority
The Pharisees Question Jesus's Authority
by Dave Hopwood
Triumph, Tears and Talents Bible Ref: Matthew 21-26; Mark 11-14; Luke 19-22; John 11&12 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to re…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 33 The Pharisees
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 33 The Pharisees
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Pharisees It is of course impossible to offer here a full history of the Pharisees. Others have laboured, and I have entered into their labour. My purpose here is to plot the main agenda of the Pharisaic movement in the last hundred years or so before the destruction of the T…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Paying Taxes to Caesar
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Paying Taxes to Caesar
by SPCK - N T Wright
Paying Taxes to Caesar Matthew 22.15-22 It was election time. The politicians were out campaigning. The journalists were everywhere, interviewing people, taking photographs, setting up debates. Radio and television seemed full of it all. But this time round everyone seemed jumpy.…
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus Luke 16.19-31 We have all seen him. He lies on a pile of newspapers outside a shop doorway, covered with a rough blanket. Perhaps he has a dog with him for safety. People walk past him, or even step over him. He occasionally rattles a few c…
Luke for Everyone - The Persistent Widow and the Tax-Collector
Luke for Everyone - The Persistent Widow and the Tax-Collector
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Persistent Widow and the Tax-Collector Luke 18.1-14 Come with me into a court of law, where a civil case is being tried. I haven’t often been in a court, but we see them on the television and in the newspapers, and from time to time legal cases are widely reported and make hi…
Luke for Everyone - Forgiveness, Faith and Obedience
Luke for Everyone - Forgiveness, Faith and Obedience
by SPCK - N T Wright
Forgiveness, Faith and Obedience Luke 17.1-10 There is a famous story about a man who wrote a book with the title, Humility and How I Achieved It. The title is almost as self-contradictory as, in Jesus’ world, the phrase ‘the good Samaritan’ would have been. One of the paradoxes …
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Parable of the Weeds
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Parable of the Weeds
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Weeds Matthew 13.24-35 Why doesn’t God do something?’ That is perhaps the most frequent question that people ask Christian leaders and teachers – and those of some other faiths, too. Tragedies happen. Horrific accidents devastate lives and families. Tyrants and…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Other Parables
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Other Parables
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Other Parables Matthew 13.44-53 I went last week to the final concert in a great music festival. The hall (a cathedral, actually) was packed to overflowing. It was a fine summer evening, and everyone had come determined to enjoy themselves. The two main pieces of music that were …
Confounded
Confounded
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Confounded Proper 24 year A Matthew 22: 15-22 All he needed was a coin to confound their connivance. Pharisees would not show their faces, so sent their disciples to distract him and the Herodians to harrass him. But malice and menace was their motive and entrapment was the…
John for Everyone Part 1 - Adultery and Hypocrisy
John for Everyone Part 1 - Adultery and Hypocrisy
by SPCK - N T Wright
Adultery and Hypocrisy John 7.53-8.11 Two women were brought before the young king. They were prostitutes, and shared a house. Both had given birth, but the son of one of them had died. Now both were claiming the living son as their own. How could anyone tell (in the days before …
Luke for Everyone - Judging Others and True Obedience
Luke for Everyone - Judging Others and True Obedience
by SPCK - N T Wright
Judging Others and True Obedience Luke 6.39-49 One picture is worth a thousand words. Here, in quick succession, are four of Jesus’ most vivid word-sketches. They are meant to be funny. Try reading them like that, and you’ll see a dry, perhaps typically Jewish, humour coming thro…
Luke for Everyone - Questions about Table-Company and Fasting
Luke for Everyone - Questions about Table-Company and Fasting
by SPCK - N T Wright
Questions about Table-Company and Fasting Luke 5.27-39 Technology advances so fast that most of us can’t keep up. If you buy a computer today, by tomorrow it will be getting out of date. Within a year or two you won’t be able to get spare parts for it. Teams of engineers are work…
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Prodigal Son (part1)
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Prodigal Son (part1)
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parables of the Prodigal: The Father and the Younger Son Luke 15.11-24 We might think that the parable of the prodigal son, as it’s usually known, hardly needs an introduction. It has inspired artists and writers down the years. Rembrandt’s famous painting, with the younger s…
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager Luke 16.1-9 She came up to me after the service and demanded to know what it meant. This passage had been read as the second lesson, while the first had been a prophetic denunciation (from Ezekiel 18, I think) of all kinds of sins, including the …
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Raising of the Little Girl