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JOHN: The people's bible commentary - The KING is CRUCIFIED
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - The KING is CRUCIFIED
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
The KING is CRUCIFIED Through these seven balanced trial scenes, Pilate moved from mocking Jesus to a grudging respect for his kingship while “the Jews” rejected the rule of God, preferring Caesar. Now Pilate ‘hands him over to them’, using the word for ‘betray’, after the action…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - REBUKES and Denials
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - REBUKES and Denials
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
REBUKES & DENIALS The scene has moved from the garden to the house of Annas, the old high priest. We have seen that John is building the tension by oscillating between events out in the courtyard and the preliminary hearing taking place in the house.
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - The greatest drama ever staged (part 2) - 14
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - The greatest drama ever staged (part 2) - 14
by SPCK - Tom Wright
14 The greatest drama ever staged (part 2) Part Two THE THANK-YOU PARTY ‘Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them.’ Four actions heavy with significance. It would still be a Jesus-meal if you did all four in silence, with maybe a single word to refer to Jesus. …
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book III
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book III
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Book III (Pss. 73-89) Book III opens with “A Psalm of Asaph” (Ps. 73). Like the sons of Korah, Asaph was, according to the book of Chronicles, a temple singer during the reigns of David and Solomon. Fifteen of the seventeen psalms in Book III are attributed to Asaph and the sons …
Recovering from Depression - Thinking from the past
Recovering from Depression - Thinking from the past
by SPCK - Katharine Smith
Thinking from the past Earlier we thought about strong emotions which have their roots in the past and which have perhaps never been fully understood or expressed, so that they continue to cause problems for us in the present...
Singing Praises
Singing Praises
by Doug Burke
“How good it is to sing praises to our God.” Psalm 147:v1 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 wa…
Simply Good News - Have We Really Met the True God?
Simply Good News - Have We Really Met the True God?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Have We Really Met the True God? How can we put all this together? As we look back across the centuries, we notice a recurring theme when people stop for a moment and ask themselves the big questions. Who are we? Where are we? What are we here for – other than to feed, fight, and…
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 …
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - New meal, new story - 5
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - New meal, new story - 5
by SPCK - Tom Wright
5 New meal, new story Part One HOW IT ALL BEGAN So, like I said, it’s as though we’re now a single family. Thirty-two of us who heard the story and had the same thing happen to us. My wife heard the story and it had the same effect on her too, but half the others are people we’d …
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - A taste of what's to come - 11
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - A taste of what's to come - 11
by SPCK - Tom Wright
11 A taste of things to come Part Two THE THANK-YOU PARTY When the Israelites were wandering through the desert on their way to the promised land, Moses sent spies ahead into Canaan who would come back to tell what they had seen. (You can read the story in Numbers 13.)…
The Second Intercessions Handbook - A Word at the Beginning