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Luke for Everyone - Opposition to Jesus in Nazareth
Luke for Everyone - Opposition to Jesus in Nazareth
by SPCK - N T Wright
Opposition to Jesus in Nazareth Luke 4.14-30 The commentators were ecstatic after the game. ‘He played like a man inspired,’ they said. What images does that conjure up for you? A sports star, perhaps, running rings round the opposition and scoring a brilliant goal. Or, from a di…
Ripples of Change
Ripples of Change
by Andy Lindley
Ripples formed perfectly after a drop of water falls 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. • …
Calm Water
Calm Water
by Tim Pillinger
Another background. Considering that this was taken in february in Devon it's probably rather less inviting than it looks. How many bible stories have water? There are stories of people going down to wells, references to the water being separated from the earth in Genesis, baptis…
Deep Church Rising - 5 Deep Faith
Deep Church Rising - 5 Deep Faith
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Deep Faith Orthodoxia as Right Believing The community of Christ-followers has always been a very diverse faith community. From the very first those who confessed Jesus as Messiah and Lord worked out this confession in diverse local contexts with diverse theological emphases and …
How God Became King - 5c Looking for the Right Thing
How God Became King - 5c Looking for the Right Thing
by SPCK - N T Wright
Looking for the Right Thing At this point we have to be careful and once more get some critical distance from the main streams of our own recent traditions. It all depends on looking for the right thing. It has been popular for well over a hundred years to see the explicitly high…
How God Became King - 10b The “Title” on the Cross
How God Became King - 10b The “Title” on the Cross
by SPCK - N T Wright
The “Title” on the Cross This leads us exactly to the ‘title’ on the cross. The Latin word ti tulus was used to describe the public notice that would be attached to the cross of a condemned criminal, indicating the charge that had led to this extreme verdict…
52 Reflections on Faith - Epiphany: The fourth wise man
52 Reflections on Faith - Epiphany: The fourth wise man
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Epiphany: The fourth wise man The feast of the Epiphany on 6 January is a celebration of the ‘manifestation’ or ‘shining’ of Christ to the Gentiles. In the Eastern churches it’s also Christmas Day. The baptism of Christ is another closely associated feast. In the Western imaginat…
At A Baptism
At A Baptism
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn is based on a bidding in the baptismal liturgy of the Anglican Church in New Zealand and Polynesia. The use of the word "treasures" reflects the Maori understanding of "taonga" meaning possessions or valuables, treasures belonging to a heritage that must be preserved at…
John The People's Commentary - A Samaritan Woman at a Well