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How God Became King - 5c Looking for the Right Thing
How God Became King - 5c Looking for the Right Thing
by SPCK - N T Wright
Looking for the Right Thing At this point we have to be careful and once more get some critical distance from the main streams of our own recent traditions. It all depends on looking for the right thing. It has been popular for well over a hundred years to see the explicitly high…
Traces of Advent - Freedom - QR code version
Traces of Advent - Freedom - QR code version
by Traces of Advent
Taken from Traces of Advent Advent 3 - Freedom This is one of four trigger images in the Traces of Advent series. They can be downloaded for free or used from a screen. For more ideas of how to use this exciting new innovation click here to go to the Traces of Advent site. To ma…
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - The Mission Begins in Galilee
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - The Mission Begins in Galilee
by BRF - Dick France
The Mission Begins in Galilee The prologue is over. We are no longer ‘in the wilderness’, but in the real world of ordinary men and women in the villages of Galilee. This is Jesus’ home province, though the focus of his mission will prove to be not in the hills around Nazareth bu…
The Act of Prayer Year C - Day of Pentecost - Year C
The Act of Prayer Year C - Day of Pentecost - Year C
by BRF - John Birch
Day of Pentecost Year C Opening prayer Sovereign Lord, we meet together to celebrate the gift of your Holy Spirit to the church. Bless us as we seek to serve you today. Fill us with your Spirit, as you filled your followers early one morning in Jerusalem over 2000 years ago, that…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 1 Grappling with the Gospels
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 1 Grappling with the Gospels
by SPCK - Edward Adams
Grappling with the Gospels The four Gospels look very alike.1 All four are narratives of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of the Christian faith. All four concentrate on a particular phase of his life: the period of his public ministry culminating i…
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 12 - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Proper 12 - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 12 Traces of Glory Year B Lord, throughout our lives we hunger and thirst for you, we long for you, we look for you; nothing in this world can fill us unless you come to us. Lord, we will perish, we will sink amid the storms unless you uphold us, come enfold us in your pea…
Simply Good News - Rethinking Heaven
Simply Good News - Rethinking Heaven
by SPCK - N T Wright
Rethinking Heaven If Jesus’s first followers spoke about the good news of what had just happened, what did they think would happen in the future as a result? Here we face a major problem. For many generations in the modern church, followers of Jesus in many parts of the world hav…
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of King
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of King
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Different Kind of King That is why, throughout Jesus’s public career, he talked about the good news of God’s kingdom, redefining the idea of God’s kingdom as he went along. God was coming back to take charge, he said. But it didn’t look like what people had imagined…
Simply Good News - Foolish, Scandalous or Good
Simply Good News - Foolish, Scandalous or Good
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 Foolish, Scandalous or Good? The man was a Jew, born and bred in what is now south-eastern Turkey. He was called Saul, a Hebrew name that, in his Jewish culture, had ancient royal associations. In Greek, however (Greek was the standard language around the Mediterranean world, l…
Simply Good News - The King's Herald
Simply Good News - The King's Herald
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 part b The King’s Herald So what was he talking about in Thessalonica and several other cities in the middle of the first century? In what sense was he bringing good news? What did he think had happened that made an all-important difference to the world?…
Simply Good News - The Competing Gospels of Rationalism and Romanticism
Simply Good News - The Competing Gospels of Rationalism and Romanticism
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Competing Gospels of Rationalism and Romanticism The second problem has infected both the church and the world for the last two or three hundred years at least. Again, this is not the place to explain how all the complicated ideas in modern European and American thought came …
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Philosophical Schools
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Philosophical Schools
by SPCK - N T Wright
3. Athene and Her Owl: the Wisdom of the Greeks (vi) The Philosophical Schools Our brief survey has uncovered several features of considerable importance as we approach the task of placing Paul within the world into which he was called to go with the news of a different Lord. As …
Times and Seasons - God’s love from heaven to earth comes down
Times and Seasons - God’s love from heaven to earth comes down
by Jan Berry
God’s love from heaven to earth comes down in cattle-shed and crowded town; in all the pain and risk of birth God shares our human life on earth: And so with hope and joy we sing, God is with us! Good news we bring. Verses 2-3 follow ©Jan Berry Tune: Sussex Carol
Bible Study
Bible Study
by Andy Lindley
A group holding a bible - TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) Insert as Picture in the normal way. If needed fill the slide area by …
GOD's rich Pattern - A devastating moment