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Revelation for Everyone - Locust Attack
Revelation for Everyone - Locust Attack
by SPCK - N T Wright
Locust Attack Revelation 9.1-12 It is already dark outside, and the wind is getting stronger. You are getting up to close the curtains when all the lights go out: a power failure. As you stumble your way to the cupboard by the back door in search of candles, you sense a cold wind…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Birth of Jesus
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Birth of Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Birth of Jesus Matthew 1.18-25 One of the most memorable movies I have seen is the film of Charles Dickens’s novel Little Dorrit. It is actually two films, both very long. The two films don’t follow in sequence, telling the first and second halves of the story; instead, each …
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - One Fatal Mistake
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - One Fatal Mistake
by SPCK - John Goldingay
One Fatal Mistake NUMBERS 20: 1-13 A few years ago a bright young church leader in England whom I knew slightly made one mistake, and his ministry was finished. It must have been devastating for him; it was devastating for people who had set their hopes on him as a symbol of some…
friends, FOES and families - Take this baby and nurse him for me: Moses
friends, FOES and families - Take this baby and nurse him for me: Moses
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Take this baby and nurse him for me: Moses Exodus 1-2 He took a little child whom he placed among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me.’ (Mark 9.36, 37)...
John for Everyone part 2 - If the World Hates You
John for Everyone part 2 - If the World Hates You
by SPCK - N T Wright
If the World Hates You John 15.18-27 We are all amateur psychiatrists now. Our modern culture has learnt enough from the founders of modern psychology and psychiatry for people to toss bits and pieces of it into ordinary conversations, articles in popular newspapers and televisio…
2 Corinthians - The Veil and The Glory
2 Corinthians - The Veil and The Glory
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Veil and the Glory 2 CORINTHIANS 3.12-18 The story is told of a time when there was to be a total eclipse of the sun. The newspapers and the radio and television stations repeatedly put out warnings, reminding people that they should not attempt to look directly at the sun. E…
The view from the mountain, enticing, expectant
The view from the mountain, enticing, expectant
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: The view from the mountain, enticing, expectant Proper 25 year A Deuteronomy 34: 1-12 The view from the mountain, enticing, expectant, the end of a journey, the start of new life; and Moses was watching with longing and heartache, while Joshua waited to lead in the strife. …
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - The Veil Is Drawn Aside
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - The Veil Is Drawn Aside
by BRF - Dick France
The VEIL is DRAWN ASIDE There is a further possible meaning of Jesus’ puzzling saying in verse 1 about seeing that the kingdom of God has come with power. For ‘some’ (only three) of those who heard it would indeed have a more immediate vision of power and glory, a foretaste of wh…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Construction of the Sanctuary and Priesthood
The Women's Bible Commentary - Construction of the Sanctuary and Priesthood
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Construction of the Sanctuary and Priesthood After the golden calf incident, the Israelites begin construction of the tabernacle as God has instructed. Women have multiple roles in these final chapters…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Israelites in Egypt
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Israelites in Egypt
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Israelites in Egypt The descendants of Jacob number seventy when they arrive in Egypt. They multiply and fill the land of Egypt with language reminiscent of the fertility of creation in Genesis (Exod. 1:7; Gen. 1:28)…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Journey from Sinai to the East Bank of the Jordan
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Journey from Sinai to the East Bank of the Jordan
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Journey from Sinai to the East Bank of the Jordan Once the journey is underway, the bulk of this section of Part One focuses on disputes about leadership. Wholesale disobedience (Num. 14) results in a thirty-eight-year pause in the journey…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 4b Jerusalem, Passion, and Resurrection (21:1–28:20)