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Acts for Everyone part 1 - Philip and the Ethiopian
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Philip and the Ethiopian
by SPCK - N T Wright
Philip and the Ethiopian Acts 8.26-40 I was once visiting Cambridge (the English Cambridge, not the American one) to do some lectures. One afternoon I was working on the themes for the lectures still to come, when I found to my surprise an urgent thought in my head: Go to Evenson…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 4b Jerusalem, Passion, and Resurrection (21:1–28:20)
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 4b Jerusalem, Passion, and Resurrection (21:1–28:20)
by SPCK - Edward Adams
Jerusalem, Passion, and Resurrection (21:1–28:20) Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem signals the beginning of the end. He enters the holy city in a kingly fashion (21:1–11), recalling the identification of Jesus as “king of the Jews” in the birth narrative (2:2) and pointing forward to …
Elijah
Elijah
by Marjorie Dobson
A narrative piece in which Elijah reflects on the circumstances that have led him to flee from the anger of Jezebel. Set at the point of 1 Kings 19. 4-8 Short Extract: What kind of a prophet do I think I am? What am I doing here, crouching under a tree, miles from anywhere and sc…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Reality of Empire
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Reality of Empire
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter Five THE EAGLE HAS LANDED: ROME AND THE CHALLENGE OF EMPIRE 2. The Reality of Empire (I) Introduction By the time Paul was born, the empire of Augustus Caesar stretched from one sea to another – the Black Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean to the English Channel…
Journeying with Luke - Preface: What is this book about?
Journeying with Luke - Preface: What is this book about?
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
Preface: What is this book about? The Revised Common Lectionary has established itself both in Anglican parishes and other denominations as the framework within which the Bible is read on Sundays in public worship. It follows a three-year pattern, taking each of the synoptic Gosp…
Oh where is there love in a world that is tired
Oh where is there love in a world that is tired
by Andrew Pratt
Oh where is there love in a world that is tired, across the year’s threshold, where hope has expired? We wait amid movement, to pause and to pray, to nurture our God at the dawn of each day. Our eyes have been opened, compassion unlocked, the road has been cleared, and the future…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Women of Philippi
The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Women of Philippi
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Women of Philippi Luke’s narrative of Paul in Philippi illustrates how different kinds of women were affected by Paul’s imperializing teaching. The narrative opens with a gathering of women to pray at the river; this underscores again Brooten’s contention that there were wome…
the historical character of Jesus - 6b James and the Jesus tradition
the historical character of Jesus - 6b James and the Jesus tradition
by SPCK - David Allen
James and the Jesus tradition Were the Jacobean Jesus merely just about locating specific references to Jesus’ name, then even with the most optimistic application of 2.1, we would surely end up with a fairly limited picture, a faint portrait at the very best…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 5 The Gospel according to Luke
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 5 The Gospel according to Luke
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Gospel according to Luke Like Matthew, Luke has used Mark’s Gospel in composing his narrative, but whereas Matthew reproduces almost all of Mark, Luke reprocesses only about half of it.1 Like Matthew, Luke augments the core story of Jesus with a birth and infancy narrative an…
Mere Apologetics - 2b Apologetics and Postmodernity
Mere Apologetics - 2b Apologetics and Postmodernity
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Apologetics and Postmodernity So what are the core themes of this “postmodernism” of which we are speaking? It has become something of a sacred tradition to begin any reflections on how the church should live and witness in postmodernity with a detailed account of scholarly refle…
Meeting God in MARK - The beginning of the Gospel -2
Meeting God in MARK - The beginning of the Gospel -2
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
The beginning of the Gospel The Gospel according to St Mark can seem like something of a Cinderella among the Gospels. For many hundreds of years it was used in public worship far less than any other of the Gospels. It never attracted the great – indeed the encyclopaedic – commen…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - From Jerome to the Book of Kells
Four Gospels, One Jesus - From Jerome to the Book of Kells
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
From Jerome to the Book of Kells The illuminated gospels Jerome’s translation quickly became the ‘Vulgate’, which means ‘Common’ version. The canonical order of Matthew– Mark–Luke–John applied to Ezekiel’s sequence was fairly standard and the four symbols can be found in frescoes…
Transforming Preaching - The varieties of structure
Transforming Preaching - The varieties of structure
by SPCK - David Heywood
3 A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation The varieties of structure In the previous section we looked at the use of structure as the skeleton of your sermon, providing an outline that keeps all the component parts in their proper place without drawing attention to itself. We …
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture From the Second to the Seventeenth Century
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture From the Second to the Seventeenth Century
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture from the Second to the Seventeenth Century Early Challenges (Marcion, the Gnostics, etc.) were Met with Response from Scripture, and (When Scripture Itself was Contested) with an Appeal to Early Tradition and Good Exegesis We must now compress a very long and complicate…
Journeying with Luke - Ordinary Time 2
Journeying with Luke - Ordinary Time 2
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
8 Ordinary Time 2 Exploring the text We noted in the last chapter that chapters 7—18 of Luke’s Gospel, from which are drawn the passages read during Ordinary Time, contain the vast majority of Luke’s parables. Luke is well known for many things but perhaps the most important are …
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The bounding lion
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The bounding lion
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
The bounding lion Mark’s style, structure and narrative technique Whenever Aslan does appear in the Narnia stories, he dashes from place to place as he is needed in great leaps and bounds: ‘he rushes on and on, never missing his footing, never hesitating’ (The Lion, the Witch and…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Literary approaches to the texts
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Literary approaches to the texts
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Literary approaches to the texts Narrative and readers If the authors of the four gospels are not just preachers and theologians, but also skilled literary artists, then we must use the tools developed in the study of literature throughout our culture. Such literary approaches in…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 14 HISTORY AND THE FIRST CENTURY