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Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Apollos in Ephesus and Corinth
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Apollos in Ephesus and Corinth
by SPCK - N T Wright
Apollos in Ephesus and Corinth Acts 18.18-28 These days people will do anything for sponsorship. Recently a Christian leader made well over a million pounds (roughly US$2 million) by running in the London Marathon. I once had a colleague who made a lot of money for his church by …
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - God as "Father"
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - God as "Father"
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
God as “Father” (Galatians 4: 4-7) In addition to bringing about people’s transformation from the status of minor children under guardianship of the law to that of mature heirs able to enjoy their inheritance (see above on 3:23–26), the coming of Christ has other consequences as …
Mark for Everyone - God’s Law and Human Tradition
Mark for Everyone - God’s Law and Human Tradition
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 7.1–13 God’s Law and Human Tradition... ...I read a book about jokes the other day (not just a book of jokes, you understand, though there were plenty of them, but a philosophical book about jokes; humour is, as you might say, a very funny thing). One of th…
Mark for Everyone - Teachings on the Sabbath
Mark for Everyone - Teachings on the Sabbath
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 2.23–28 Teachings on the Sabbath... ...The twentieth century saw a great deal of secret police activity. The KGB in the Soviet Union, and the Stasi in East Germany, were legends in their own lifetime during the Communist period. Several countries in Central…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - How did the gospels come to be written?
Four Gospels, One Jesus - How did the gospels come to be written?
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
How did the gospels come to be written? Source As a schoolteacher, I used to spend long evenings marking children’s exercise books. Occasionally, I would suddenly realize that I had seen this answer before, or something very like it, and a frantic search would ensue back through …
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 36 The period from ad 70 to 135
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 36 The period from ad 70 to 135
by SPCK - N T Wright
The period from ad 70 to 135 We now turn to the period from ad 70 to 135. It might be thought that the events of ad 70 would have brought about that great change from political involvement to pious devotion that has been postulated to explain the difference between Josephus’ Phar…
How God Became King - 7 The Clash of the Kingdoms
How God Became King - 7 The Clash of the Kingdoms
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Clash of the Kingdoms Speakers two and three need, as we have seen, to be turned down a bit. Their volume has been too shrill over the past few generations, and we lose thereby not only the real music they are playing – the gospels really are telling the story of Jesus as the…
Great Christian Thinkers - 4 St. Irenaeus of Lyons
Great Christian Thinkers - 4 St. Irenaeus of Lyons
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Irenaeus of Lyons In reflecting on the prominent figures of the early Church, we come to the eminent personality of St. Irenaeus of Lyons. The biographical information on him comes from his own testimony, handed down to us by Eusebius in his fifth book on Church history… Take…
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 2 Beginning Our Exploration of Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 2 Beginning Our Exploration of Lectio Divina
by Christine Valters Painter
Beginning Our Exploration of Lectio Divina SACRED READING Listening for a Sacred Word Give me a small line of verse from time to time, oh God, and if I cannot write it down for lack of paper or light, then let me address it softly in the evening to your Great Heaven… Taken from L…
Echoing the Word - The common texts of the Eucharistic Prayer
Echoing the Word - The common texts of the Eucharistic Prayer
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
6 The common texts of the Eucharistic Prayer For all their variety, the Eucharistic Prayers of Common Worship have some common texts and share these with the eucharistic rites of other provinces and churches. These are an opening dialogue, a song usually called by its Latin name,…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Continuous Story: (a) Introduction
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Continuous Story: (a) Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL (ii) The Continuous Story (a) Introduction First, the continuous story. Let me quote, to begin with, something I said in my last book on Paul:..
The Power of the Parable - Challenge Parables: Part 3
The Power of the Parable - Challenge Parables: Part 3
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
chapter 5 Challenge Parables: Part 3 Let Anyone With Ears To Hear Listen! In 1973 I was an associate professor at DePaul University in Chicago and had just published In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus, the first in a series of books that would culminate with The H…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3: MONDAY... ...We were staying in a remote part of Scotland for a holiday. Our hosts, welcoming us, pointed out that we didn’t need a key for the door. They never locked it. The risk of intruders or burglars in that part of the world was more o…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Praying in the Faith