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High on a mountain path
High on a mountain path
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation on Psalm 31: High on a mountain path Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A Psalm 31 High on a mountain path, the weather closing in, the air wet, as though we're in a cloud. It's hard to see ahead, can't see the way we've come; need to find some shelter and some rest. Silence …
Transforming Preaching - Preaching for transformation
Transforming Preaching - Preaching for transformation
by SPCK - David Heywood
1 Why preach? Preaching for transformation In the previous sections we have looked briefly at preaching in the contexts of contemporary culture and the Church’s life and worship. We saw that preaching is related to worship, teaching, pastoral care, leadership and evangelism. All …
Transforming Preaching - A microcosm of ministry
Transforming Preaching - A microcosm of ministry
by SPCK - David Heywood
1 Why preach? A microcosm of ministry At the heart of the Church’s worship and life is the expectation that people will encounter God, and preaching is the activity that focuses and expresses this expectation. Karl Barth called it the ‘representative event at the centre of the Ch…
Transforming Preaching - The sermon as a learning event
Transforming Preaching - The sermon as a learning event
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event To change is to learn. A process of transformation is therefore a process of learning. In the previous chapter I suggested that the goal of preaching is transformation. Transformation involves people taking in new information, coming to see the wo…
Online Mission and Ministry - Online discipleship and spirituality
Online Mission and Ministry - Online discipleship and spirituality
by SPCK - Pam Smith
Online discipleship and spirituality Jesus said that where two or three are gathered in his name, he will be present. Many of us have found that this promise holds good online. Perhaps the very lack of physical presence, and the time it takes to respond to each other in writing, …
Online Mission and Ministry - Pastoral care and relationships
Online Mission and Ministry - Pastoral care and relationships
by SPCK - Pam Smith
Pastoral care and relationships ‘Pastoral care’ in a Christian context means supporting and caring for people who are undergoing problems and crises such as illness, unemployment, loneliness or bereavement through practical help, listening and friendship. The word ‘pastoral’ rela…
Transforming Preaching - The word of God
Transforming Preaching - The word of God
by SPCK - David Heywood
1 Why preach? The word of God Written words, spoken words Since the invention of the printing press over 500 years ago the printed word has been the world’s dominant form of communication. Once the privilege of a few, reading and writing have become a universal gateway to a world…
Transforming Preaching - Remembering
Transforming Preaching - Remembering
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event Remembering Since both listening and memory are elements in the way our minds work to take in, store and use information, remembering shares many characteristics with listening. Like listening, it is an active process, deeply affected by our value…
Transforming Preaching - Learning
Transforming Preaching - Learning
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event Learning We have looked at two of the specific ‘components’ of the learning process, listening and remembering. We have seen that listening is an active process; it requires a decision to pay attention to some new information or situation, whether…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - He rides again
Four Gospels, One Jesus - He rides again
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
He rides again The Resurrection, Luke 24 A good ending to a story ties up the various threads; the best sort of ending opens up new horizons. Mark’s gospel ended with the enigma of the empty tomb and an absent Jesus; Matthew had the supernatural happenings and the Teacher commiss…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Biography, faith and worship
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Biography, faith and worship
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Biography, faith and worship This book has attempted a symbolic reading of the narratives of the gospels as biographies of Jesus. Biography is a form of story, and human beings find their identity through stories, which brings a community dimension to interpretation. There is an …
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The Powerful Ox
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The Powerful Ox
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
The powerful ox Symbolism and meaning After the human face of God in Matthew’s Teacher of Israel and the bounding lion of Mark, the next symbol for Jesus might seem odd: to us, the ox seems somewhat slow and stupid – and, indeed, some commentators have been known to call Luke, wi…
Online Mission and Ministry - Techno Christianity
Online Mission and Ministry - Techno Christianity
by SPCK - Pam Smith
Techno Christianity In the beginning . . . I started to go online in the 1990s, shortly after the world wide web became available to people with home computers. I was teaching in a college which had a suite of computers connected to the internet, and having tried it out there I b…
Framed Image - Psalm 23:3b
Framed Image - Psalm 23:3b
by Revd Dr Michael Moon
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…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Four Gospels,... Four Portraits
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Four Gospels,... Four Portraits
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Four Gospels,… Four portraits Deep in the heart of the Kent countryside, perched on the side of a gentle hill sloping from the Downs to the flat plain of the Kentish Weald, is a large country house. Chartwell, as it is known, was the country home of Sir Winston Churchill from 192…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - What are the gospels?
Four Gospels, One Jesus - What are the gospels?
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
What are the Gospels? Genre First, we need to ascertain what kind of creature we are about to encounter. If we were to treat a cartoon featuring Churchill as though it were a photograph, we would soon make mistakes in its interpretation. Similarly, one does not listen to a fairy …
Online Mission and Ministry - Building an online community
Online Mission and Ministry - Building an online community
by SPCK - Pam Smith
Building an online community Even if your vision is for a project run solely by yourself, it is worth thinking about community. The online world is full of abandoned Christian sites, sadly forsaken and clogged up with adverts and spam posts which say nothing about the Christian m…
Online Mission and Ministry - Looking after yourself and your team