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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Enough Punishment Already!
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Enough Punishment Already!
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Enough Punishment Already! Psalm 74 This evening, as I write, will be the beginning of the Jewish year 5772; in other words, on this reckoning the New Year will be the 5772nd year since creation. It will be followed by the Day of Atonement and the Festival of Sukkot. Thinking abo
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Another Blind Man
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Another Blind Man
by BRF - Dick France
Another Blind Man Act 2, which began with the healing of a blind man (8:22–26) now comes to its close with another. The treatment of the disciples’ spiritual blindness which has been such a prominent feature of the intervening chapters will now give way to the rapidly unfolding e
The Journey to The Cross
The Journey to The Cross
by Graeme Dutton
Short 'stations' with Bible readings, reflections and actions based around the stages of Jesus' journey to The Cross The Journey to The Cross 1.The Triumphant Entry The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloa
The Women's Bible Commentary - Mary, Rhoda, and Slavery
The Women's Bible Commentary - Mary, Rhoda, and Slavery
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Mary, Rhoda, and Slavery At the very end of the story of Peter’s imprisonment in Jerusalem, Luke gives readers a glimpse into one of the assemblies of The Way (or Christians, as they are now called [Acts 11:26])…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 2c The Shared Story in the Four Gospels
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 2c The Shared Story in the Four Gospels
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Shared Story in the Four Gospels Using the elements of story listed earlier, we can identify a core story embodied in all four Gospels. There is a common series of events: the appearance and ministry of John the Baptist, the descent of the Spirit upon Jesus, the call of the f
The Women's Bible Commentary - Violence Condemned and Condoned? Oracles against the Nations and Israel
The Women's Bible Commentary - Violence Condemned and Condoned? Oracles against the Nations and Israel
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Violence Condemned and Condoned? Oracles against the Nations and Israel In the first verse of Amos’s speech, the prophet refers to God in the third person: “YHWH roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem” (1:2). In the Hebrew Bible, Zion is associated, directly and indi
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Jerusalem, journey's end