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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…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 9 The Wisdom of God (cntd.)
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 9 The Wisdom of God (cntd.)
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
The Wisdom of God Summary This homily touches on many themes. Six of them can be summarized as follows: 1. Here Paul continues to clarify and present his message. In Corinth he did not jettison his concern to build bridges for communicating the gospel to the Greeks and the Jews a…
Simply Good News - Turning the Good News into Bad News
Simply Good News - Turning the Good News into Bad News
by SPCK - N T Wright
Turning the Good News into Bad News The first of these, then, has to do with the popular view of what Christianity is all about – and when I say the popular view, I mean the view of most people inside the church as well as outside. Most people in the Western world think of Christ…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - We Want To See Jesus
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - We Want To See Jesus
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
We want to see Jesus John’s account of Jesus welcomed into Jerusalem by the crowd showed how he rejected violent revolution for just one nation, responding with a humility which caused ‘all the world’ to go after him. Both universalism and humble suffering are developed further i…
Echoing the Word - Words at the distribution
Echoing the Word - Words at the distribution
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
19 The prayer of humble access There are two sets of words to consider at the time of the distribution: first, those spoken by the president to invite people to Communion; second, those spoken by those distributing the consecrated bread and wine to each communicant in turn, altho…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Passion of Jesus
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Passion of Jesus
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Passion of Jesus Jesus’ conflict with the Jerusalem authorities escalates. Our labels for these authorities are problematic at best: “Jewish” is anachronistic; “religious” as opposed to “political” is modern and Western. In first-century Jerusalem, the temple authorities, who…
Simply Good News - Resurrection as the Beginning of a New World
Simply Good News - Resurrection as the Beginning of a New World
by SPCK - N T Wright
Saving the World How do we know all this? How can we know all this? How is all this not simply a pious dream, a fantasy, a utopia that we all enjoy but know is a mirage? The answer is simple. Jesus was raised from the dead. This is, of course, the second half of the classic summa…
Simply Good News - The King's Herald
Simply Good News - The King's Herald
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 part b The King’s Herald So what was he talking about in Thessalonica and several other cities in the middle of the first century? In what sense was he bringing good news? What did he think had happened that made an all-important difference to the world?…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - JESUS before the HIGH PRIEST