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Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 4 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 4 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 4 Mark 2:23- 3:6 Gaze on a wheat field, glowing under the sun, ready for harvest. The stalks are bowing down almost in prayer, ready for reaping. The field is so full and sturdy and dense that all the footpaths that run across it are hidden. So Jesus walks straight through…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Second before Advent Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Second before Advent Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday before Advent Mark 13: 1-8 Gaze on the stones that are all that remains of the Temple today. They are huge slabs, glaring in the sun, lying there as a heap of blocks, tilted and abandoned where they fell. It is easy to imagine the massive walls and the moulded c…
Revelation bible study guide - New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem
Revelation bible study guide - New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem
by SPCK - N T Wright
New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem Revelation 21:1-21 There are some moments in life when we say to ourselves, “Everything is going to be different now. This is entirely new. This is a whole new world opening up.”...
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 8.26-40 1 John 4.7-21 John 15.1-8 If you like evangelism, you’ll love Philip’s story. A spirit-led meeting with a court official, who happens to be reading Isaiah 53 and asking the right questions. There is time to converse at leisure; there is wat…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Inheritance and the Spirit
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Inheritance and the Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PRAYERS OF PAUL THE INHERITANCE AND THE SPIRIT Ephesians 1: 11-14 Not far from where I was born there is an ancient castle. It stands imposingly, high above the banks of a river, defying anyone to attack it. These days, the likely attacks come …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 1: MONDAY... ...I am writing this not long after the worldwide commemorations that took place on the tenth anniversary of the terrible terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. In many countries around the globe, people…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - New Covenant
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - New Covenant
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
New Covenant Jeremiah 31: 31-34 A fundamental aspect of that restored society is that in it everyone “from the least of them to the greatest” will live in covenant relationship. In this famous passage (31:31–34), God promises to make a new covenant with the whole of Israel…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Moses' Final Words and His Death
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Moses' Final Words and His Death
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Moses’ Final Words and His Death (Deuteronomy 32: 1- 34: 12) As noted in the introduction to this essay, the Deuteronomic redactors shaped the whole of their book as the last will and testament of Moses. After the discussion of law and covenant, redactors have appended materials …
Traces of Glory Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Lent - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Lent - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
The Fourth Sunday of Lent Lord, we seek to make our home in you, for in you is our hope, in you is our peace. May we abide in you as you are in us. Grant, O Lord, in turning to you we may find new vision, new strength and new love, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and rei…
Hymn: When my mind was double doubting
Hymn: When my mind was double doubting
by Andrew Pratt
When my mind was double doubting, when my brain was racked with pain, when no angels flew about me, when I thought I’d gone insane, suddenly God came and found me, brought me back to life again. Raise the roof with hallelujahs, paint the skies with psalms of praise, God has plumb…
Hymn: The world is a-turning, God set it a spinning
Hymn: The world is a-turning, God set it a spinning
by Andrew Pratt
The world is a-turning, God set it a spinning, and preachers and prophets are catching the wave; the Baptist is setting the tone for the future, come trust and repent and believe God can save. The soldiers and taxmen first heard this man preaching with fearless extravagance chall…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Wednesday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Wednesday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER WEDNESDAY... ...Easter, in the northern hemisphere at least, is a time when all sorts of plants are starting to come up. Sometimes there are surprises. I well remember raising my eyebrows a few years ago when bulbs we had totally forgotten abo…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 5 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 5 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Ordinary Time Proper 5 Genesis 12.1–9 Romans 4.13–25 Matthew 9.9–13, 18–26 Abraham’s call (Abram, actually, at this stage; but just as we say the Archbishop was born in 1935, even though he wasn’t Archbishop then, so we don’t need to fuss about g…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 5 Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 5 Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 5 1 Samuel 8.4-11 [12-15] 16-20 [11.14-15] 2 Corinthians 4.13-5.1 Mark 3.20-35 So: did God want Israel to have a king, or didn’t he? The question haunts not only this passage in 1 Samuel but much of the rest of the account of the monarchy, from the ill-fated Saul right dow…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Mystery and The Victory
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Mystery and The Victory
by SPCK - N T Wright
5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD THE MYSTETY AND THE VICTORY 1 Corinthians 15: 50-58 He stood there in baggy jeans, trainers, and an old sweater. ‘You can’t come in like that,’ I said. ‘This is a smart lunch, and we’re the guests. We’ve got to get it right.’ ‘No problem,’ he replied, a…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Creation Renewed