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Jeremiah for everyone - On Witnessing by Your Obedience to Your Special Vocation
Jeremiah for everyone - On Witnessing by Your Obedience to Your Special Vocation
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Witnessing by Your Obedience to Your Special Vocation Fortuitously, I completed the translation of Jeremiah 35:1–19 just as the moment arrived when we often have a glass of wine before dinner…
The simplest of words have eternal importance
The simplest of words have eternal importance
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: The simplest of words have eternal importance Proper 18 Year A Matthew 18: 15 – 20 The simplest of words have eternal importance, a 'yes' or a 'no' last for more than a day. Be careful in talking and choose your words wisely, then think before speaking of what you will say.…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The ox plods a long, slow journey
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The ox plods a long, slow journey
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
The ox plods a long, slow journey Luke’s style and structure Unlike Mark’s disorderly rushing about, Luke writes an ‘orderly account’ (1.4). His preface has a calm, literary self-confidence, and this continues into the main narrative. While Mark introduces everything ‘and immedia…
Body - Chapter 3 - The resurrection body (part 2)
Body - Chapter 3 - The resurrection body (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The resurrection body (part 2) What kind of resurrection bodies? But someone will ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?’ Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a ba…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The sacrificial, saving victim
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The sacrificial, saving victim
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
The sacrificial, saving victim The Passion, Luke 22—23 In Luke’s Passion narrative, Jesus becomes passive, like Mark’s lion being tied up and muzzled, or Matthew’s Teacher refusing to call up legions of angels. Here the reason is divine necessity: ‘it is necessary’ (dei) appears …
The Women's Bible Commentary - Hagar: Mothering a Hero
The Women's Bible Commentary - Hagar: Mothering a Hero
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Hagar: Mothering a Hero The story of Hagar leads to a wider discussion of the major themes of this study: the barrenness of the patriarch’s wives, the annunciation scenes, and the wives’ positions as mother of the patriarch of the next generation…
Letters to London - 14 Kingdom citizenship and earthly responsibility
Letters to London - 14 Kingdom citizenship and earthly responsibility
by SPCK - Stephen J.Plant and Toni Burrowes-Cromwell
14 Kingdom citizenship and earthly responsibility But why all these observations and details entrusted to a 14-year-old boy? Did the writer believe that the status of citizenship (whether heavenly or earthly) was not solely the reserve of adults? If so, this would not have been n…
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