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by Rachel Marsh
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
The Power of the Parable - Riddle Parables
The Power of the Parable - Riddle Parables
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
chapter 1 Riddle Parables So That They May Not Understand Nessun dorma— “Nobody sleeps tonight”— proclaims the Princess Turandot in Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, unfinished at his death in 1924. Nobody can sleep because a riddle must be solved before the dawn. Here is …
The Gospel According to twilight - Born Again
The Gospel According to twilight - Born Again
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
Born Again Chapter 5 Vampire stories are all about forbidden fruit, which means they are about hunger, temptation, deceit, sin, and death. Twilight is thoroughly vampiric in this way. But as anyone who has read Genesis knows, sin doesn’t have the last word. Love wins the day. The…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Ten Virgins
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Ten Virgins
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Ten Virgins: (Matthew 25: 1-13) Unique to Matthew, the parable of the Ten “Bridesmaids” (NRSV; literally, “virgins”; Gk. parthenoi) continues the Gospel’s concern for women at the final judgment (cf. 24:19, 41). The women may be wedding guests or, more likely, servants waitin…
Traces of Glory Year B - The Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - The Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
The Fifth Sunday of Easter God of love, may we abide in your presence and so abide in your love: as we freely receive your love, let us freely share with others all that you have given us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, for ever …
Job for Everyone - Will You Just Listen?
Job for Everyone - Will You Just Listen?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Will You Just Listen? Job 13: 1-28 This afternoon I was on the phone with a friend who had moved to another city because he believed he had a call to go and work in a tough area there. He had joined a tiny church and had started a coffee bar that might be a meeting place for peop…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Swallow Your Pride
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Swallow Your Pride
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Swallow Your Pride JOSHUA 9: 22- 10: 11 In the church where I was a young assistant pastor, I shared a house with an older man called Charles who in U.S.-speak would be called the janitor but in Brit-speak was called the caretaker. I don’t remember how he had been appointe…
Body - Chapter 2 - Keeping body and soul together
Body - Chapter 2 - Keeping body and soul together
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
Keeping body and soul together We are now in a position to turn our attention to Paul and to his view of the body and soul. As we observed in the previous chapter, different understandings of the soul make it hard for us to work out what we mean when we use the word ‘soul’, let a…
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Promises of the Spirit
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Promises of the Spirit
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
The PROMISE of the SPIRIT Jesus continues to reassure his disciples as several farewell themes are woven together in this next section. He reinforces the main point that he is going away, and yet will still be with them; this leads into a discussion of the relationship of the Fat…
The Women's Bible Commentary - “Alas for You Who Heap Up What Is Not Your Own”
The Women's Bible Commentary - “Alas for You Who Heap Up What Is Not Your Own”
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
“Alas for You Who Heap Up What Is Not Your Own” This section includes five woe oracles against Babylon (2:6b; 2:9; 2:12; 2:15; 2:19), but it is not a continuation of the vision that God promised the prophet in 2:3…
journeying with John - 6 The Easter season Knowing, belonging, loving