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The Living God - Images as windows into God
The Living God - Images as windows into God
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Which God Are We Talking About? 1 Images as windows into God A picture is worth a thousand words.’ Being able to show someone a picture of a beautiful scene, a complicated piece of machinery or a pet cat goes a long way towards making up for the limitations of human words. So per…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday of Christmas - Year C
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday of Christmas - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 1st Sun of Christmas Year C 1st Samuel 2 v 18-20, 26 Psalm 26 Colossians 3 v 12-17 Luke 2 v 41-52 When we celebrate the birth of our Messiah at Christmas, we speak of him as the saviour (Luke 2 v 11), the one who takes away our sins and makes us whole. Salvation is…
Psalms for Everyone - Remembering Makes All the Difference
Psalms for Everyone - Remembering Makes All the Difference
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Remembering Makes All the Difference Psalm 57 I’ve been thinking about memory. As a result of a comment by a student, I found myself reflecting on the fact that we don’t think much about the link between memory and our life with God—our ethics and our spirituality—though there ar…
Mere Apologetics - 6d Clue 6: Beauty—The Splendor of the Natural World
Mere Apologetics - 6d Clue 6: Beauty—The Splendor of the Natural World
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Clue 6: Beauty—The Splendor of the Natural World Many find themselves deeply moved by a scene of natural beauty— for example, a great mountain range, a glorious sunset, or wooded valleys. So how can we help someone move from a love of what God has created to a love of God the cre…
Great Christian Thinkers - 20 St. Maximus of Turin
Great Christian Thinkers - 20 St. Maximus of Turin
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Maximus of Turin Between the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth, another Father of the Church made a great contribution to the spread and consolidation of Christianity in northern Italy: St. Maximus, whom we come across in 398— a year after St. Ambrose’s…
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 14 - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 14 - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 14 Lord Jesus, true bread from heaven, giving life and refreshment to the world, fill our lives with your goodness, fill your church with your presence, that we may live and work to your praise and glory, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, are one God, now and forev…
Body - Chapter 3 - The resurrection body
Body - Chapter 3 - The resurrection body
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The resurrection body So what does happen when we die? Our reflections on the question of who we are as people and on the place of the soul in our identity leads naturally to the question of life after death. For some people the word ‘soul’ has dual purpose: it describes both who…
Body - Chapter 2 - Keeping body and soul together
Body - Chapter 2 - Keeping body and soul together
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
Keeping body and soul together We are now in a position to turn our attention to Paul and to his view of the body and soul. As we observed in the previous chapter, different understandings of the soul make it hard for us to work out what we mean when we use the word ‘soul’, let a…
Body - Chapter 3 - The resurrection body (part 2)
Body - Chapter 3 - The resurrection body (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The resurrection body (part 2) What kind of resurrection bodies? But someone will ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?’ Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a ba…
Body - Chapter 4 - A spiritual body?
Body - Chapter 4 - A spiritual body?
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
A spiritual body? The climax of Paul’s reflection on resurrection bodies comes in 1 Corinthians 15.42–46. Having set up the analogy of resurrection bodies being like a seed that is planted in the ground which needs to be transformed, Paul then laid down parameters which shape how…
Body - Chapter 5 - The life-giving spirit