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Simply Good News - Turning the Good News into Bad News
Simply Good News - Turning the Good News into Bad News
by SPCK - N T Wright
Turning the Good News into Bad News The first of these, then, has to do with the popular view of what Christianity is all about – and when I say the popular view, I mean the view of most people inside the church as well as outside. Most people in the Western world think of Christ…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - We Want To See Jesus
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - We Want To See Jesus
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
We want to see Jesus John’s account of Jesus welcomed into Jerusalem by the crowd showed how he rejected violent revolution for just one nation, responding with a humility which caused ‘all the world’ to go after him. Both universalism and humble suffering are developed further i…
Simply Good News - Resurrection as the Beginning of a New World
Simply Good News - Resurrection as the Beginning of a New World
by SPCK - N T Wright
Saving the World How do we know all this? How can we know all this? How is all this not simply a pious dream, a fantasy, a utopia that we all enjoy but know is a mirage? The answer is simple. Jesus was raised from the dead. This is, of course, the second half of the classic summa…
Jesus suffered
Jesus suffered
by Don Stott
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. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Mark The People's Commentary - Storm at Sea
Mark The People's Commentary - Storm at Sea
by BRF - Dick France
Storm at Sea In 1986 the complete hull of a cedar-wood fishing boat from about the first century ad was discovered buried in the mud by the shore of the Lake of Galilee. It is probably typical of the boats in use in Jesus’ time. It is just over 8 metres long by 2.35 metres wide a…
Jesus is coming
Jesus is coming
by Avis Palmer
Children's song for Palm Sunday Jesus is coming, Joy and excitement, Telling our friends that He's on his way. Will you come with us? Leave what you're doing? Wait at the roadside, Wonderful day! Here he comes smiling, Happy to see us. We wave our branches His praises sing. He to…
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Jesus: his home
Jesus, his home, his journey, his challenge - Jesus: his home
by SPCK - David J. Bryan
Jesus: his home Introduction Throughout the Gospels Jesus is identified as Jesus of Nazareth (Mark 1.24). This might seem obvious to us but it is actually very surprising that someone who came to be seen by his followers as the Christ or Messiah should be so closely associated wi…
friends, FOES and families - He called her forward: four women who met Jesus
friends, FOES and families - He called her forward: four women who met Jesus
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
He called her forward: Four women who met Jesus Luke 13; John 4; Luke 7, Matthew 15 Though I am an outsider, I am included, though I am sinful, I am accepted, though I am sick, I am healed. Though I am a nameless stranger God recognizes me...
Sketch:Doing the right thing.
Sketch:Doing the right thing.
by Bob Cooper
SKETCH: DOING THE RIGHT THING: Simon meets his old friend Jacob in the Synagogue. Simon is looking rather downhearted (Based upon Luke 7:36-50). Jacob: Hello Simon, good to see you. But why are you looking so glum. Simon: O, hello Jacob; you’re right I’m feeling a bit off colour.…
Hymn: Out of Nazareth