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John for Everyone part 2 - No King but Caesar
John for Everyone part 2 - No King but Caesar
by SPCK - N T Wright
No King but Caesar John 19.8-16a From our seats, high in the stands, we watched as the football match swung this way and that. Our team was doing well and scored a couple of early goals. We were delighted; surely they could hang on to a lead like that? When the opposition scored …
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 18 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 18 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 18 Luke 14: 25-33 Gaze on a woman baking a fruit cake for a celebration. The ingredients take up half a page in the recipe book. She checks them off one by one – butter, sugar, flour, raisins, sultanas, cherries . . . Smell the fruit, and the pungent spices! But she has no…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fourth Sunday of Lent Joshua 5.9–12 2 Corinthians 5.16–21 Luke 15.1–3, 11b–32 Luke, the expert writer, puts the prodigal son as the third of a set of stories about losing and finding. All of the stories emphasize God’s joy at finding what had been lost, but the story of the p…
52 Reflections on Faith - Transfiguration: shining with God’s love
52 Reflections on Faith - Transfiguration: shining with God’s love
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Transfiguration: shining with God’s love Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the whole world were to shine with the love of God? That sounds idealistic, doesn’t it? If anyone actually said that, you might wonder whether they had read the newspapers lately or were at all aware of what was…
Arthur's Call - Through the wilderness years
Arthur's Call - Through the wilderness years
by SPCK - Frances Young
2 Through the wilderness years In the Bible the wilderness is a place of testing and doubt, but also a privileged place where God confronts and calls his people. In this chapter I retell my own version of this paradoxical experience…
Simply Good News - Becoming Good-News People
Simply Good News - Becoming Good-News People
by SPCK - N T Wright
Becoming Good-News People So what happens when we pray the prayer the right way round? We become good-news people. That is true, actually, whenever you pray, because prayer means standing between the one true God and his world, becoming a place where the love of this God and the …
My practical theology DJW - God and humankind - are they compatible?
My practical theology DJW - God and humankind - are they compatible?
by David John Woodman
This practical theology has developed over many years and discusses some of the seemingly incompatible aspects of God and humankind, good and evil and in relation to some scientific theories that I believe has an impact on these questions. I see no impossibility between the quest…
Meditation: Immersive God
Meditation: Immersive God
by Jane Bingham
A short meditation on that God is about Immersive God Air that we breathe - God Water we drink - God Light that we see - God Love that we feel - God Ideas and thoughts we contemplate - God People we meet - God Choices we make - God Life that we live - God All we are and all that …
Occasions for Alleluia - God is our lover
Occasions for Alleluia - God is our lover
by SPCK - David Adam
God is our lover Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we mi…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 10 February 1931
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 10 February 1931
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 10 February 1931 If there is any contribution that I have to make to the world that will live, surely it must be my experience of God on Signal Hill. This afternoon I climbed my way to the top, weighted with a sense of remorse. Everything wrong that I have done in twe…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 12 October 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 12 October 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 12 OCTOBER 1930 How I wish, wish, wish that a dozen or more persons who are trying the experiment of holding God endlessly in mind would all write their experiences so that each would know what the other was finding as a result! The results, I think, would astound the…
The Gospel According to twilight - The Good Family