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A Bit Like Jesus - Stories We Value
A Bit Like Jesus - Stories We Value
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Understanding Stories Forty years ago our family spent a year in Papua New Guinea living in a remote area without roads. I was teaching in the theological college and Jenny was working in the local hospital. Our son was a toddler and our daughter just a ba…
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing stories and parables
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing stories and parables
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Healing stories and parables Can I make an assumption about you as a reader of this Lent Book? I may well be wrong, but I assume that you are slightly intrigued by what it means to be ‘a bit like Jesus’. I should explain...
Meditation - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C The great debate Luke 10: 25-37 He was an imposing man, a top expert on Jewish law, clearly very learned and very self assured, well-dressed with an air of confidence about him. Most people were in awe of Jesus, but not this man; he …
John for Everyone part 2 - The Arrest of Jesus
John for Everyone part 2 - The Arrest of Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Arrest of Jesus John 18.1-14 He came, looking for someone. He came on the evening breeze, came as he had always come. Came because they knew each other, and used to spend time together. Came to the garden, because that’s where they always met. That’s where he was at home. And…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Better with Abraham and Sarah than in Egypt
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Better with Abraham and Sarah than in Egypt
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Better with Abraham and Sarah than in Egypt Genesis 16: 8-16 Toward the last years of my time as a seminary principal in England, the demands of the job took a toll on me. One reason you get paid more if you are the boss of anything is that you are the person who lies awake at ni…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 8 Elizabeth
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 8 Elizabeth
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Chapter 8 Elizabeth In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife was a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all th…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Jeremiah 2:4-13 Psalm 81:1,10-16 Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5). Those words could well be the axiom for the whole Bible. God never has left or forsaken the people who are his …
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 16 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 16 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 16 Jeremiah 1.4–10 Hebrews 12.18–end Luke 13.10–17 Moses said he wasn’t a speaker. Isaiah said his lips were tainted. Ezekiel fell on his face. And Jeremiah says he’s too young. One might, perhaps, be a trifle suspicious if God’s call to prophecy met with too ready a respo…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Sour Hour of Prayer
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Sour Hour of Prayer
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Sour Hour of Prayer 1 Samuel 1: 9-11 For Hannah, too, the hour of prayer was initially sour, though eventually sweet. Presumably she prayed when she was at home in the village, as other Israelites did, but the occasion when the family went to Shiloh would be a natural time for sp…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - A Life for a Life
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - A Life for a Life
by SPCK - John Goldingay
A Life for a Life Genesis 9: 5- 13 I was once asked to visit a man in prison who had come to trust in Christ and was now taking online courses on Christian faith; he hoped to be ordained one day. He was a man about my age and build; indeed, his name was also John. As we sat on ei…
Job for Everyone - And They All Lived Happily Ever After
Job for Everyone - And They All Lived Happily Ever After
by SPCK - John Goldingay
And They All Lived Happily Ever After Job 42:1- 17 I have often asked people whether they like the ending of the book of Job. The majority do not because it seems unrealistic, in that they know many people who do not have a happy ending to their story in the way that Job does. My…
Rhythms of remembering - Sunday Night Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Sunday Night Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
Midday and Night Prayer for all seasons Sunday Night Prayer May the Lord grant us a quiet night and a perfect end. For all the good I have seen and done today, I give thanks. For all my sins and omissions, I ask pardon. For all for whom I pray, I claim protection...
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - The End?