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Hebrews for Everyone - The Sympathetic High Priest
Hebrews for Everyone - The Sympathetic High Priest
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Sympathetic High Priest Hebrews 4.14-5.3 I have just finished reading a fascinating wartime diary, written by an Anglican clergyman who was captured by the Germans in 1940 and spent the next five years in various prison camps, ministering as best he could to the thousands of …
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Trinity Sunday Year A Acts 2:1-2:4a Psalm 8 2nd Corinthians 13;11-13 Matthew 28:16-20 There are no Trinity proof-texts in the Bible – no single verse that incontrovertibly proves that God is three persons in one, and the word “trinity” does not appear. Some Bible cri…
Hebrews for Everyone - The Messiah's Work in the Heavenly Sanctuary
Hebrews for Everyone - The Messiah's Work in the Heavenly Sanctuary
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Messiah’s Work in the Heavenly Sanctuary Hebrews 9.23-28 ‘It was such a great day,’ she said. ‘I’d really like to do it all over again!’ We were looking at the photographs two weeks after the wedding. All their friends and relatives had been there. The sun had shone. The musi…
When I consider the heavens v2
When I consider the heavens v2
by Mark Boulton
Text from Psalm 8 v3-4 'When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers what is man'. Other images in this series: When I consider the heavens - Psalm 8:3-4 The heavens declare the glory of God - Psalm 19 The heavens declare the glory of God v2 - Psalm 19 In the beginnin…
Hymn: Star strewn garments clothe the heavens
Hymn: Star strewn garments clothe the heavens
by Andrew Pratt
Star strewn garments clothe the heavens, robes of beauty, source of awe; Spirit God transcending hist'ry, way beyond where pulsars soar. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: STUTTGART Metre: 8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 24/9/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.staine…
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 12 NATURE AS SACRED TEXT
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 12 NATURE AS SACRED TEXT
by Christine Valters Painter
NATURE AS SACRED TEXT Every being is praising God The fire has its flame and praises God. The wind blows the flame and praises God. In the voice we hear the word which praises God. And the word, when heard, praises God. So all of creation is a song of praise to God… Taken from Le…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3: SUNDAY... ...A couple of years ago I found myself in New York at the time when the Museum of Modern Art was hosting an exhibition of Claude Monet’s ‘Waterlily’ paintings. I hadn’t realized how enormous they were, or just how abstract the shap…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 9 The Walking on the Water
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 9 The Walking on the Water
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Walking on the Water The story of Jesus’ walking on the water appears in three of the four Gospels: not, as one might expect, in the three Synoptic Gospels, but in Matthew, Mark, and John. Luke does not include this episode; he moves directly from the feeding miracle to the c…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Second Sunday of Advent Year B