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Mark for Everyone - The Preaching of John the Baptist
Mark for Everyone - The Preaching of John the Baptist
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 1.1–8 The Preaching of John the Baptist... ...You are sound asleep and dreaming, when suddenly the door bursts open and a bright light shines full in your face. A voice, breaking in on your dream-world, shouts, ‘Wake up! Get up! You’ll be late!’ And without…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - United Praise under the Messiah's Universal Role
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - United Praise under the Messiah's Universal Role
by SPCK - N T Wright
United Praise under the Messiah’s Universal Rule ROMANS 15.7-13 The great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius brought the art of writing symphonies to a new glory. His first six were each splendid in their own way, developing the form which previous composers had used and flooding it …
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Watch Out for Yourselves, the Flock and the Wolves
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Watch Out for Yourselves, the Flock and the Wolves
by SPCK - N T Wright
Watch Out for Yourselves, the Flock and the Wolves Acts 20.28-38 ‘I received an email this morning from a man I have never met. He has been studying a particular subject, and has come upon an article I wrote 25 years ago. In it, I quote a line from the scholar I was discussing (E…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 5: SATURDAY Matthew 26.14 —27.66 It isn’t me, is it? The great story, well known yet little known, bursts upon us in a deeply disturbing scene: friends at the table discovering that one of them is to be a traitor. We often wonder what it was that made Judas do it. Perhaps w…
This is love, love un-extinguished
This is love, love un-extinguished
by Andrew Pratt
This is love, love un-extinguished, love out lasting time and place, love surviving crucifixion, sign of hope and source of grace. This was God who bled and died there, very God they scourged and hung, it was God the child of Mary, from whom human life was wrung. Verses 2-3 follo…
We wring our hands in hopelessness
We wring our hands in hopelessness
by Andrew Pratt
We wring our hands in hopelessness while Herod's spirit roams abroad, the innocent are slaughtered still as hatred draws a tighter cord. We lack audacity to face corruption in our very midst; humanity is drawn by greed and power has the final twist. God bring again your human…
The Things He Carried - 5. The Hopes of God
The Things He Carried - 5. The Hopes of God
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
HE THINGS HE CARRIED 5. The Hopes of God He carried the hopes of God. This is how he had come to see it – searching the scriptures, sucking the marrow of wisdom from the very bones of his faith. That God had spent everything to try and create community with his beloved; that is, …
The Things He Carried - 7. Our Sorrows
The Things He Carried - 7. Our Sorrows
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
THE THINGS HE CARRIED 7. Our Sorrows He carried our sorrows. Nothing was too small for him. All the fragments were gathered up. And nothing was too large or too heavy. He carried the tiny, casual disappointments, the lost hopes and shattered dreams that reverberate through a life…
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Thursday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Thursday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Thursday Evening Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you open your hands, and fill all things with plenteousness. We bless you, generous God: you show us how to give and to receive. Jesus our brother, you make your presence known among us in the breaking of the bread,.…
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Sunday Evening Prayer Blessed are you, O God: in Jesus, crucified and risen, you have shown us your face. We worship you, O Holy One, present to Moses in the burning bush, to Isaiah in the temple,...
the greatest prayer - Your Kingdom Come
the greatest prayer - Your Kingdom Come
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
4 Your Kingdom Come Thy kingdom come. Matthew 6:10, KJV Your kingdom come. Matthew 6:10, NRSV Hesiod was a Greek pessimist for whom the wineglass of history was half empty—and getting emptier. Around the start of the seventh century BCE his Works and Days proposed that humanity h…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Strength to bear the burdens