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Called for a Purpose
Called for a Purpose
by Michaela Youngson
Ordinary 32 Year C Reflection based on 2 Thessalonians 2.13-17 Called for a purpose – questions to consider. (allow silences between questions) What is our purpose here? There is one possible answer in our text – ‘we must always give thanks to God’. But what would it look like fo…
Lectio Divina - God's word and scripture
Lectio Divina - God's word and scripture
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
God’s Word and Scripture In the first two chapters of this book I offered some reflections in answer to the question, ‘Why spiritual exegesis?’ In the chapters to come, we will ask who should do lectio divina and look at how and where it is done. Before we turn to this topic, we …
Good Friday Jesus
Good Friday Jesus
by Jane Bingham
Good Friday Jesus Meditation on The Crucified tree form - the agony Theyre Lee-Elliott (1903-1988) A painting in the Methodist Modern Art Collection http://www.methodist.org.uk/our-faith/reflecting-on-faith/the-methodist-modern-art-collection/index-of-works/crucified-tree-form-th…
Eggs and Ashes Book - Palm Sunday Evening
Eggs and Ashes Book - Palm Sunday Evening
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Prayer - Meditation - reflection Palm Sunday evening This time there will be no flight into Egypt. This donkey has too much to carry, too far. The shadows wait for me: around the table at Passover, among those in high places, in the condemned cell... By Josie Smith Taken from Egg…
Lectio Divina - Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today?
Lectio Divina - Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today?
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today? I have spoken about Origen at some length because he is the classic representative of a tradition of interpretation that ‘was the formula for Christian biblical exegesis as it was practised without interruption until the sixtee…
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Abbreviations and Introduction With these few elementary notes on lectio divina, we hope to have provided readers with an opportunity to renew or develop a taste for a way of reading Scripture which is as old as the church itself, and which has deep roots in Judaism. I don’t thin…
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Series Foreword To read Enzo Bianchi’s work is, among other things, to be forcefully made aware that we have got used to a rather thin diet of resources to help us read the Bible. We have plenty of good scholarship and plenty of good popular summaries of that scholarship – but ve…
GOD's rich Pattern - A painful parting
GOD's rich Pattern - A painful parting
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
A painful parting Ralph’s deterioration, both mentally and physically, took a huge downturn. He was constantly falling, finding himself in a totally agitated state, unable to stand. After two falls in the middle of the night, which my carer and I had to cope with, it was time to …
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