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52 Reflections on Faith - Paul: enthusiast for faith
52 Reflections on Faith - Paul: enthusiast for faith
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Paul:enthusiast for faith If you get a chance to travel across Turkey or Greece ‘in the footsteps of St Paul’, you’ll learn a great deal about the man who spread Christianity around the Mediterranean world in the early years after Jesus…
The Pastoral Letters - Paul as an Example of God's Saving Grace
The Pastoral Letters - Paul as an Example of God's Saving Grace
by SPCK - N T Wright
Paul as an Example of God’s Saving Grace 1Timothy 1.12-17 When I was a boy, television was in its infancy. There was only one channel, and there wasn’t very much to watch on it. But, when I graduated off the programmes for little children (Andy Pandy and Bill and Ben, the Flowerp…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 7 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 7 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 7 Luke 8: 26- 39 Gaze on all that is unclean in this story: the man himself, the tombs he lived in, and the pigs feeding on swill, caked with mud. Gaze on the vagrants of our cities today: the men stretched out on newspaper in the shop doorways; bag ladies pushing trolleys…
Following Jesus
Following Jesus
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn on the call of Matthew - and our call to follow Jesus - is a conscious rewrite of the traditional St. Matthew's Day hymn by W. Bright, "He sat to watch o'er customs paid) (Hymns Ancient And Modern Revised # 563). I gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to this hymn wri…
friends, FOES and families - Listen to everything: Philip and the Ethiopian
friends, FOES and families - Listen to everything: Philip and the Ethiopian
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Listen to everything: Peter and the Ethiopian; Peter and Cornelius Acts 8, 10 Risen Jesus, help us listen well to those who accompany us in life, whose view is further down the road we are called to travel...
John The People's Commentary - Feeding the Five Thousand
John The People's Commentary - Feeding the Five Thousand
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Feeding the Five Thousand Jesus’ miraculous feeding of a vast crowd is such a well-known story. This is the only miracle narrated in all four gospels—indeed, it is the only incident from Jesus’ ministry before his last week which they all include. The Synoptic gospels each descri…
Moulin Rouge Bible Study Part 3
Moulin Rouge Bible Study Part 3
by Tim Marshall
A Bible Study which relies heavily on discussion rather than leading. Using the film 'Moulin Rouge' as a starting point and then looking at a variety of passages (which can be obtained from the web in a variety of different translations) There are questions to help start discussi…
Traces of Glory Year B - Bible Sunday - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Bible Sunday - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Bible Sunday Father, we give you thanks for your holy word spoken of old by the prophets and apostles, for all that is written in the Scriptures, that is proclaimed by evangelists and preachers; we pray that we may heed your word and come to know the Word made flesh, even Jesus C…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - "Rose like a lion"?
Four Gospels, One Jesus - "Rose like a lion"?
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
‘Rose like a lion’? The Resurrection, Mark 16.1–8 When we come to Mark’s account of the resurrection, we find things are no better: the early church Fathers can talk of Jesus rising triumphant like a lion – but that image cannot be based on Mk. 16.1–8. Like so much of his gospel,…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 5b Jerusalem, Passion, and Resurrection
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 5b Jerusalem, Passion, and Resurrection
by SPCK - Edward Adams
Jerusalem, Passion, and Resurrection Finally Jesus arrives at Jerusalem, his goal. Luke narrates the triumphal entry (19:28–38) and the people’s acclamation of Jesus as “the king who comes in the name of the Lord” (19:38). Jesus weeps over the city and foretells its destruction (…
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