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Isaiah for everyone - Beautiful Feet
Isaiah for everyone - Beautiful Feet
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Beautiful Feet My feet went all nasty a few years ago in Jerusalem. Visiting Jerusalem was the only occasion when I got to wear sandals continually for two weeks, and the skin on my heels frayed. One result was that it became impossible to keep them clean…
John for Everyone part 2 - Judas Goes Out
John for Everyone part 2 - Judas Goes Out
by SPCK - N T Wright
Judas Goes Out John 13.21-30 A priest working in the villages outside Cambridge reports that when sheep are taken off to be killed, they know instinctively that the slaughterhouse is a bad place. They can smell or sense something which warns of danger. The lorry carrying them wil…
John for Everyone part 2 - Like Master, Like Servant
John for Everyone part 2 - Like Master, Like Servant
by SPCK - N T Wright
Like Master, Like Servant John 13.12-20 I was given a beautiful present this week. To celebrate a special anniversary, someone close to me spent hours and hours weaving a careful tapestry, a needlepoint work of art. The theme comes from one of the early Celtic gospels, and is a p…
How easy to distort the Jesus Spirit
How easy to distort the Jesus Spirit
by Andrew Pratt
How easy to distort the Jesus Spirit, to lose his ways in empty, so called, praise. We brush aside his life of liberation, commitment, just a hollow passing phase. Astonishment might greet the face we offer, purporting to portray the grace of Christ, our frowns sometimes betray t…
What value can you place on love
What value can you place on love
by Andrew Pratt
What value can you place on love, how can you weigh attention that watches every step you take beyond this world's convention? Verses 2-3 follows Tune: DOMINUS REGIT ME Metre: 8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 16/8/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Conquest of the Land
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Conquest of the Land
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Conquest of the Land (Joshua 3-12) Readers are given a good clue as to the direction of the narrative when the captain of YHWH’s army comes to Joshua with a sword in his hand (5:13). He tells Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy” …
A cloak of darkness, like a shroud
A cloak of darkness, like a shroud
by Andrew Pratt
A cloak of darkness, like a shroud, had crawled across the rolling land, and through that darkness people trudged, a weary, wand'ring, pilgrim band. From day to day they marked their route, but when at last all hope had gone, in darkness, deeper than before, some lost the heart t…
52 Reflections on Faith - Maundy Thursday: washing the feet
52 Reflections on Faith - Maundy Thursday: washing the feet
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Maundy Thursday: washing the feet Maundy Thursday is the first of the three holy days leading up to Easter. Christians usually think of it as the day when the Eucharist was instituted. Jesus ate a meal with his disciples in Jerusalem the night before he died, thereby inaugurating…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 6 Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 6 Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge
by SPCK - N T Wright
Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge Stories are one of the most basic modes of human life. It is not the case that we perform random acts and then try to make sense of them; when people do that we say that they are drunk, or mad…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 32 THE DEVELOPING DIVERSITY
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 32 THE DEVELOPING DIVERSITY
by SPCK - N T Wright
THE DEVELOPING DIVERSITY The period between the Babylonian exile and the destruction of the second Temple by the Romans saw the birth of a fascinating and complex variety of expressions of Jewish identity and life. It is vital that we gain a clear idea of this variety, upon which…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - “Why Do You Look On the Treacherous?”
The Womens' Bible Commentary - “Why Do You Look On the Treacherous?”
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
“Why Do You Look On the Treacherous?” The prophet bemoans the failure of his expectations, namely, that the sins of the nation’s leaders would be met by appropriate judgment and that God would judge the iniquities of Judah’s enemies as well…
The Lord and His Prayer - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
The Lord and His Prayer - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
by SPCK - N T Wright
Forgive Us Our Trespasses CHAPTER FOUR One of the most vivid images in the whole New Testament is that of a man running. These days, people of all sorts run to keep fit. Even presidents and politicians have been known to don jogging suits, and even to be photographed taking exerc…
The Lord and His Prayer - Thy Kingdom Come