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Mark for Everyone - The Resurrection
Mark for Everyone - The Resurrection
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 16.1–8 The Resurrection... ...Mark’s ending is missing. I am convinced of it. Two of our best manuscripts, both from the fourth century, end where this text breaks off. The alternative endings in several other manuscripts, which I shall deal with in an extr
Imagining the Lectionary: Seasons of Leadership (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Seasons of Leadership (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Seasons of Leadership (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A) Reflection accompanying images: “The last rose of summer” and “The end of the last rose of summer” As the autumn weather deteriorates a solitary pink flower is the last remembrance of summer on this rose
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 8 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 8 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Ordinary Time Proper 8 Genesis 22.1–14 Romans 6.12–23 Matthew 10.40–42 Perhaps precisely because it is one of the darkest of all Bible stories, the tale of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah has left deep imprints in Judaism and Christianity. Chil
John for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus and Nicodemus
John for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus and Nicodemus
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus and Nicodemus John 3.1-13 I have lost my birth certificate. It’s the sort of thing that happens when you move house, which we did not long ago. I know where it was in the old house. It may have been accidentally thrown away; but I suspect it was put into a very, very safe p
Revelation bible study guide - Letters to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira
Revelation bible study guide - Letters to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira
by SPCK - N T Wright
Letters to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira Revelation 2 I was involved some years ago in making a series of radio programs where people from quite different backgrounds came together for an hour to discuss complex and challenging topics of the day. Since this was being mad
Revelation bible study guide - Letters to Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea
Revelation bible study guide - Letters to Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea
by SPCK - N T Wright
Letters to Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea Revelation 3 You might be surprised to know that, in some parts of England, “The Wars of the Roses” still live on. These wars were fought between the Houses of York (the white rose) and Lancaster (the red rose) in the fifteenth century
Mark for Everyone - Questions about Fasting
Mark for Everyone - Questions about Fasting
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 2.18–22 Questions about Fasting... ...When I was a boy there was a craze for ginger-beer plants. An uncle gave us the starter kit, including the bacteria that, by a process I never understood, produced the secret ingredient that gave the homemade brew its f
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Great Commandments, and David's Master
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Great Commandments, and David's Master
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Great Commandment, and David’s Master Matthew 22.34-46 I watched on television a tennis match between two of the game’s finest players. Both had been playing well, but towards the end one of them seemed to rise to new heights. The match ended with two stunning games, when the
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Paralytic
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Paralytic
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Paralytic Matthew 9.1-8 ‘Authority’ has had a bad press, in much of the world, for a hundred years and more now. It goes together, in the popular mind, with nasty ideas like ‘repression’, ‘human rights abuses’, and such like. Think of ‘the authorities’, and wha
2 Corinthians - The Letter and the Spirit