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Imagining the Lectionary: God's grace is always more than enough (Proper 20A/Ordinary 25A)
Imagining the Lectionary: God's grace is always more than enough (Proper 20A/Ordinary 25A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: God's grace is always more than enough (Proper 20A/Ordinary 25A) Reflection accompanying images “You shall see the glory of the Lord”, “Gods grace is always more than enough” and “No strings attached” The people are grumbling, complaining and turning inw…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Introduction
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Introduction
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Introduction Enabling is what I believe the Church should be about: enabling all people to discover God’s amazing love; and enabling each person in the body of Christ to play his or her part, so the Church of Christ can function to its full potential…
Transforming Preaching - Preaching for transformation
Transforming Preaching - Preaching for transformation
by SPCK - David Heywood
1 Why preach? Preaching for transformation In the previous sections we have looked briefly at preaching in the contexts of contemporary culture and the Church’s life and worship. We saw that preaching is related to worship, teaching, pastoral care, leadership and evangelism. All …
Recovering from Depression - An unexpected interlude
Recovering from Depression - An unexpected interlude
by SPCK - Katharine Smith
An unexpected interlude Journal entry: Thursday 25 April 2013 It’s been quite a while since I wrote any new material for the book. I’ve been thinking about it, of course, and jotting down ideas but actually writing real sentences and paragraphs has been difficult...
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Get Prayer to Work
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Get Prayer to Work
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Get Prayer to Work Psalm 142 In connection with Psalms 120–121, I mentioned the visit a group of my friends were making to one of the poorest and most dangerous countries in Africa, in connection with their commitment to letting the voice of refugees there be heard in the …
Simply Good News - Can we Trust the Gospels?
Simply Good News - Can we Trust the Gospels?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Can we Trust the Gospels? Let’s start with the obvious problem. Can we trust the Gospels? Answering that properly would take another whole book, and indeed I’ve written one or two on that topic. Despite a continuing chorus of scepticism, I and many other scholars who have studied…
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of Kingdom
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of Kingdom
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Different Kind of Kingdom Americans often tell me this. ‘We used to have kings,’ they say, ‘but we gave them up. You British understand these things; we don’t.’ This is a misunderstanding. The constitutional monarchy we have today in the United Kingdom is quite different from a…
Arthur's Call - Creation
Arthur's Call - Creation
by SPCK - Frances Young
4 Creation In creation there is fragility and vulnerability; that is the nature of creation. That was one of the wise sayings collected at our first L’Arche meeting. My original anguished question had been, ‘How can I go on believing in a good Creator God when something so drasti…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Yes, Yahweh Has Begun to Reign
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Yes, Yahweh Has Begun to Reign
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Yes, Yahweh Has Begun to Reign Psalm 96 Today’s news includes a report about forces in Yemen firing on people protesting the government and killing some of them. In Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan soldiers have faced sharply increased attacks by insurgents from their base in Pakista…
God's Cathedral of Creative Splendour
God's Cathedral of Creative Splendour
by Doug Burke
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God Redeems Now
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God Redeems Now
by SPCK - John Goldingay
God Redeems Now Psalm 73 Last night we went to a concert by rock-country-bluegrass-folk artist Steve Earle. I first heard him at Nottingham Rock City when he was still fairly fresh out of prison where he had been for drug-related offenses. Twenty years later in a club in Disneyla…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - The Promise of a Poisoned Chalice
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - The Promise of a Poisoned Chalice
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Promise of a Poisoned Chalice Psalm 75 The news today tells of two men called Abu Elias and Robert who were interviewed as they sat at the bottom of the stairs of the Convent of Our Lady of Saydnaya, a city high in the mountains north of Damascus. It is one of the few communi…
The Post Evangelical - 7 The truth, the whole truth and something quite like the truth