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Still Caring - September songs
Still Caring - September songs
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
37 September sings Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. (Hebrews 12.1b) I’m watching the folk on the beach this sunny September afternoon. They’re different from the summer visitors. This crowd is made up of people at either end of the happy family spectrum: y…
Still Caring - Thank you
Still Caring - Thank you
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
38 Thank you Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (1 Thessalonians 5.18) There are good days. Good visits. Moments when the fog lifts and the person you knew and loved is there again, smiling at you, knowing who you are. And even when…
Still Caring - What's the name for it?
Still Caring - What's the name for it?
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
30 What’s the name for it? The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces. (Isaiah 25.8) You’d think you would get used to it – the pattern of visits each week. You would expect to fall into a pleasant routine, with your life working again, but something weird happens…
Still Caring - Time to let go
Still Caring - Time to let go
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
14 Time to let go There is a time . . . a time to embrace and a time to refrain. (Ecclesiastes 3.1, 5b) It was probably guilt that had me running backwards and forwards from our house to the residential home. If he’d lost something, needed anything, I’d drop everything and rush d…
Still Caring - Relax!
Still Caring - Relax!
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
29 Relax! The Lord is my shepherd . . . he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. (Psalm 23.1a, 2b, 3a) I’m visiting my sister for the first time in years and I’m sleeping late every morning. At home I usually wake around 6 a.m., but here it’s more like 9 a.m. before…
Still Caring - Trouble at mill
Still Caring - Trouble at mill
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
20 Trouble at mill Blessed are those who have regard for the weak. (Psalm 41.1a) There was a new resident on my husband’s corridor. She became upset when she was left on her own and cried out. This was distressing to the other residents and my husband told me about it. Several ti…
Still Caring - When disaster strikes
Still Caring - When disaster strikes
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
11 When disaster strikes Whatever disaster or disease may come, and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people . . . then hear from heaven, your dwelling-place. (2 Chronicles 6.28 –30a) Maybe you were aware that time was running out. Everything had been going well,…
The Women's Bible Commentary - No Male and Female?
The Women's Bible Commentary - No Male and Female?
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
No Male and Female? To illustrate the diversity of the body of Christ, Paul asserts that “in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit” (12:13). Behind this verse is a baptismal formula, reproduced…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Preface to the History
The Women's Bible Commentary - Preface to the History
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Preface to the History Following the opening letters asking the Egyptian Jews to commemorate the purification of the temple, the author opens his preface with a lengthy sentence displaying his facility with the Greek language…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women as the Strongest
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women as the Strongest
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Women as the Strongest The story of the contest has been expanded by the addition of the fourth section about truth (4:33–41). In its original form, the argument about women (4:13–32) would have been the climax and conclusion of the contest about “what one thing is strongest” (3:…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - New Covenant