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Parallel Lives of Jesus - 1c Four Individual Gospels
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 1c Four Individual Gospels
by SPCK - Edward Adams
Four Individual Gospels To sum up so far: The Gospels exhibit a significant degree of commonality. Yet each Gospel has particularities that set it apart from the others. John’s Gospel is the most distinct, but each of the four distinguishes itself from the others in certain ways……
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 5d The Characterization of the Disciples
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 5d The Characterization of the Disciples
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Characterization of the Disciples By no means is Luke oblivious to the failings of the disciples (e.g., 8:22–25; 9:12–13), but his portrait of the disciples is more positive than Mark’s and even Matthew’s.28 This is evident from a comparison of parallel episodes. Luke does no…
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…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 3 The Gospel according to Mark
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 3 The Gospel according to Mark
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Gospel according to Mark Of the four New Testament Gospels, Mark is the one that most obviously manifests the shared story we have identified. It is also the Gospel that most closely corresponds to the outline of the gospel message given in Acts 10:36–43:1 Mark’s Gospel begin…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 3d The Characterization of the Disciples
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 3d The Characterization of the Disciples
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Characterization of the Disciples As noted in chapter 2, all the evangelists portray the disciples with conflicting traits. While Mark acknowledges the positive features of the disciples (they are called, commissioned, made privy to the mystery of the kingdom, etc.), he accen…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 20 Paul’s Personal Freedom and Responsibility
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 20 Paul’s Personal Freedom and Responsibility
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Paul’s Personal Freedom and Responsibility In the previous section (8:1-13) Paul presses home two points in his discussion of food offered to idols: (1) You know idols do not exist. Therefore, you have the freedom and right to eat idol food. (2) Your responsibility to love other …
Acts for Everyone part 1 - More than He Bargained for
Acts for Everyone part 1 - More than He Bargained for
by SPCK - N T Wright
There was once a young man who sneaked into church hoping nobody would notice him. The only reason he’d come was because he was keen on a girl who sang in the choir, and he hoped that if he was in the service he’d be able to see her at the end of the service and ask her out. He w…
Moulin Rouge Bible Study Part 8
Moulin Rouge Bible Study Part 8
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…
The Power of the Parable - Rome as the New Jerusalem
The Power of the Parable - Rome as the New Jerusalem
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
chapter 9 Rome as the New Jerusalem The Parable Gospel According To Luke-Acts “Aphrodisias,” said Octavian, when not yet Caesar Augustus, “is the one city from all of Asia I have selected to be my own,” and its citizens carved that accolade on the archive wall of their theater. S…
The Power of the Parable - Challenge Parables; Part 1
The Power of the Parable - Challenge Parables; Part 1
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
chapter 3 Challenge Parables: Part 1 Down from Jerusalem to Jericho The French intellectual André Gide lived from 1869 to 1951. His search for honesty and integrity— a search at once sexual and social, political and religious— led him first to revere and then speedily to revile R…
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A) Reflection accompanying images “Autumn leaves in abandoned steel sink” A pile of autumn leaves in the bottom of a kitchen sink is a profoundly incongruous and unex…
Lord, You Have Examined Me
Lord, You Have Examined Me
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
Depicting Psalm 139 - Based on the TV Program CSI which examines 'Who are You'. This image created in Photoshop incorporates a DNA design, Richard (from twelvebaskets) face and a baby scan depicting that God knows all about us even before we were born. Words used: THE HOLY BIBLE,…
Mark for Everyone - In the High Priest’s House
Mark for Everyone - In the High Priest’s House
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 14.53–72 In the High Priest’s House... ...Jesus retains his integrity at the cost of his life. Peter loses his integrity to save his skin. Mark has contrasted them vividly. The double picture is put together in another of Mark’s ‘sandwiches’. Peter arrives …
Mark for Everyone - The Parable of the Sower
Mark for Everyone - The Parable of the Sower
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 4.1–20 The Parable of the Sower... ...I once knew a young man who was suffering from severe depression. Eventually he went to a psychiatrist and told her, not only how bad he was feeling, but what he’d been dreaming about, night after night. He was inside a…
Hymn: The Psalmist calls for new songs praising God
Hymn: The Psalmist calls for new songs praising God
by Andrew Pratt
The Psalmist calls for new songs praising God but we prefer familiar words and ways. We hold and cage and mould God to our will, defending customs smothering our praise. A world-wide pool of images and grace informs our faith, re-vitalises hope, and so our view, so narrow and obs…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Sundays Before Advent The Second Sunday Before Advent Zephaniah 1.7, 12–18 1 Thessalonians 5.1–11 Matthew 25.14–30 The word ‘gospel’ means ‘good news’, and Christians believe that, in Jesus Christ, the whole world is offered the good news of God’…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - New Words for New News
Acts for Everyone part 1 - New Words for New News
by SPCK - N T Wright
New Words for New News Acts 2. 5-13 ‘These men are all Galileans, aren’t they?’ they said. 8‘So how is it that each of us can hear them in our own mother tongues? 9There are Parthians here, and Medians, Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judaea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10Phrygi…
Mark for Everyone - The Rich Young Ruler