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Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 7.55–60 1 Peter 2.2–10 John 14.1–14 What are we Christians supposed to feel about the world we live in? All three of today’s readings suggest that, at the very least, the world is not our home. Stephen dies as though death is irrelevant, w…
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Fruit of the Spirit
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Fruit of the Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5.22-26 The Christmas decorations were spectacular. I went down the street from store to store, and in each window – and indeed in the street itself – there were pretty lights and multicoloured decorations. Every shop seemed to have sparkling trees, …
John for Everyone Part 1 - From Below of from Above
John for Everyone Part 1 - From Below of from Above
by SPCK - N T Wright
From Below or from Above John 8.21-29 ‘The house is on fire! Get up at once!’ She burst into the dormitory where several of the other girls were sleeping. She dashed to the nearest bed and shook the sleeper violently. ‘Come on! There’s no time! You’ll be burnt alive!’ ‘Go back to…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Fruit of the Spirit
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Fruit of the Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5: 22-26 The Christmas decorations were spectacular. I went down the street from store to store, and in each window – and indeed in the street itself – there were pretty lights and multi-coloured decorations. Every sh…
Psalms for Everyone - Neither Militarist nor Pacifist
Psalms for Everyone - Neither Militarist nor Pacifist
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Neither Militarist nor Pacifist Psalm 68: 19-35 On the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I read an article by a Pakistani titled “Why Do They Hate Us So Much?” It picked up a question people in the United States asked after those attacks but reversed it in light of convict…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Missing Garlic
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Missing Garlic
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Missing Garlic NUMBERS 11: 1-35 My mother didn’t know about garlic. This is not unreasonable; she had learned to cook in the days when British cooking was boring, before Elizabeth David introduced us to proper cooking (she was our Julia Child) and before immigration from the I…
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - A Demonstration in the Temple
Mark The People's Bible Commentary - A Demonstration in the Temple
by BRF - Dick France
A DEMONSTRATION in the TEMPLE Mark has carefully interwoven two themes here, as the scene shifts repeatedly between the temple and a fig tree on the Bethany road, thus: Verse 11, temple; verses 12–14, fig tree; verses 15–19, temple; verses 20–25, fig tree; verse 27, temple (which…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - A Wandering Aramean Has Become a Great Nation
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - A Wandering Aramean Has Become a Great Nation
by SPCK - John Goldingay
A Wandering Aramean Has Become a Great Nation Deuteronomy 26: 1-19 Last Friday we had our harvest celebration at the seminary, and a great occasion it was. There was a wide range of food cooked by people of different ethnic backgrounds; there were games for children; there were r…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Success Dependent on Building the Temple
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Success Dependent on Building the Temple
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Success Dependent on Building the Temple The all-male tone of Haggai is set by the book’s opening verse, which names six men: the Persian king, two Judean leaders, their fathers, and the prophet…
Body - Chapter 2 - Keeping body and soul together (part 2)
Body - Chapter 2 - Keeping body and soul together (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
Keeping body and soul together (part 2) Death and the soul in the Old Testament A fascinating illustration of the importance of the body to the nephesh is the use of the word to refer to someone who has died recently. Numbers 6.6 forbids a Nazirite from going near a nephesh met (…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Let Me Tell You Another Story