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Job for Everyone - A Witness in the Heavens?
Job for Everyone - A Witness in the Heavens?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
A Witness in the Heavens? Job 16: 18- 17: 16 When I was a young assistant pastor in London (what would now be called a youth pastor, but youth pastors hadn’t been invented yet), one of the prize members of our largely middleclass youth group was a teenager from the local projects…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 24thSunday in Ordinary Time Yr B Proverbs 1: 20-33 Psalm 19 James 3: 1-12 Mark 8: 27-38 They are some of the angriest words spoken by Jesus, and directed at a greatly loved and well-intentioned disciple; “Get behind me, Satan” (Mark 8 v 33)– almost the same words he…
Jesus Heals Peter's Mother-in-law
Jesus Heals Peter's Mother-in-law
by Dave Hopwood
A New Kind of Fishing Bible Ref: Matthew 4,8,9 &12; Mark 1-3; Luke 4-6; John 4 & 5 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to …
A Man at the Well at the Sheep Gate
A Man at the Well at the Sheep Gate
by Roger Price
This is one of a number of monologues that I have written for use in worship or some other reflective purpose. This one deals with the events of the healing of the man at the pool by the sheep gate from the point of view of that man. Should you like this and like to have more of …
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 30. That's not way to speak to yourself!
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 30. That's not way to speak to yourself!
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 30 That’s no way to speak to yourself! Romans 8.1 Guilt. It lurks, waiting for the inevitable: you get exhausted and say something less than kind, do something unfriendly. You find yourself blaming your loved one for your feeling of bein…
The Post Evangelical - 5 Woolly liberals?
The Post Evangelical - 5 Woolly liberals?
by SPCK - Dave Tomlinson
5 Woolly liberals? And so to the crunch question: isn’t post-evangelical just another way of saying ‘woolly liberal’? It never ceases to amaze me how paranoid evangelicals are about liberalism. Any deviation from the ‘straight and narrow’ and, ‘Whoa! I think you need to be carefu…
Mark The People's Commentary - Not Dead but Sleeping
Mark The People's Commentary - Not Dead but Sleeping
by BRF - Dick France
“Not Dead, but Sleeping” After the unhappy confrontation the last time we heard of Jesus in the synagogue in Capernaum (3:1–6), it is a relief to find that at least one leading member of that institution still holds him in high regard, even if it is under the pressure of urgent p…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - An Implausible Promise
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - An Implausible Promise
by SPCK - John Goldingay
An Implausible Promise Genesis 13: 14-18 I can recall two promises God made to me that seemed unlikely to be fulfilled. Both date from about the time I became principal of a theological college in England, which in U.S. terms is a cross between being a seminary president, provost…
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
12 May 2013 LWPT Meditation Acts 16:16-34 Psalm 97 Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17 John 17:20-26 “Believe in the Lord Jesus”, so said the apostle Paul when a man asked what he “must do to be saved” (Acts 16:31). What must we do to be saved? We have to do nothing but believe. As soon a…
Job for Everyone - Why Are Times Not Kept by Shadday?