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THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book V
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book V
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Book V (Psalms 107-150) Book V of the Psalter opens with Psalm 107, a community hymn celebrating God’s graciousness in delivering the community of faith from exile in Babylon. The psalmist says: “Let the redeemed of YHWH say so, those he redeemed from trouble and gathered in from…
Online Mission and Ministry - Where do I start?
Online Mission and Ministry - Where do I start?
by SPCK - Pam Smith
Where do I start? The old saying that it takes years to become an overnight success applies just as much to developing an online presence as to any other activity. There is no single, sure-fire way to develop an online presence – our methodology will vary according to our own per…
Psalms for Everyone - On Telling God What to Do
Psalms for Everyone - On Telling God What to Do
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Telling God What to Do Psalm 70 As usual, this Sunday morning in church we prayed that the church might be one, that it might faithfully preach the gospel to the ends of the earth, that there might be justice and peace on the earth, and that the world might be freed from pover…
Psalms for Everyone - They're Trying to Wash Us Away
Psalms for Everyone - They're Trying to Wash Us Away
by SPCK - John Goldingay
They’re Trying to Wash Us Away Psalm 31 Last night we went to a concert by the great honky-tonk/blues singer Marcia Ball, who grew up in Louisiana. Her closing song was Randy Newman’s unbearably moving “Louisiana.” The song describes how the Mississippi River rose all day and all…
There is a season - Ash Wednesday Liturgy
There is a season - Ash Wednesday Liturgy
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
ASH WEDNESDAY Behold, I make all things new We enter the church in silence. We sit in chairs in a semi-circle around the altar. Leader….. O God, make speed to save us. All….. O Lord, make haste to help us. reading Isaiah 53.3 – 6...
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 149:4
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 149:4
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 149:4 What a glorious place to end! The thought that God takes pleasure in us supplants all those other false notions of God being rather fed up with us. The problem with low self-esteem, which afflicts so many of us, is that we project this on to how God must see us. When …
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 27:9
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 27:9
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 27:9 In St Paul’s famous essay on love he writes about how one day we will see God face to face but for now we see ‘through a glass, darkly’ (1 Corinthians 13.12 kjv). It’s a poetic phrase conveying the original Greek which literally says that we see through a glass not dar…
A Bit Like Jesus - The story of the Caring Samaritan
A Bit Like Jesus - The story of the Caring Samaritan
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 4 Care The story of the Caring Samaritan Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all you…
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Advent Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Advent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – 2nd Sunday of Advent Year A I’m not a sinner Matthew 3: 1-12 I get really annoyed by people who classify everyone as sinners. Not everyone is a sinner. I’m certainly not .I don’t go around beating people up, robbing, lying, cheating, swindling and defrauding people. …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 July 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 July 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 9 JULY 1930 Never did I so feel the need of a silent typewriter as at this moment, for every stroke clashes with the marvelous silence of the hills tonight. I am still under the spell of that hush and of that sunset. In all my life I have never seen a sight so beautif…
Meditation - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C A Justified Sinner Luke 18: 9-14 Jesus became frustrated soon after we arrived in Jericho, with the self-confident and self-righteous people he was meeting. Finally it all came to a head, and Jesus started telling one of his stories;…
friends, FOES and families - Because he loved him as himself: David and Jonathon
friends, FOES and families - Because he loved him as himself: David and Jonathon
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Because he loved him as himself: David and Jonathon 1 Samuel I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete . . . Love each other as I have loved you. (John 15.11, 12)...
John for Everyone part 2 - Obeying and Loving
John for Everyone part 2 - Obeying and Loving
by SPCK - N T Wright
Obeying and Loving John 15.9-17 John for Everyone Part 2 Like an innocent child wandering by itself into a kitchen and pressing the switches that will set the house on fire, some biblical texts have been taken out of their original setting and used in ways that would have horrifi…
Psalms for Everyone - Silence toward God