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The Women's Bible Commentary - The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob The book of Malachi opens with the words “I have loved you.” However, this love is cast as a parent’s preference for one son at the expense of another: Jacob is loved, while Esau is an object of hatred…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Man’s First Speech, with Responses by the Woman and the Jerusalem Women
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Man’s First Speech, with Responses by the Woman and the Jerusalem Women
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Speaking about Love These opening verses, by disorienting the reader with a seemingly dizzying array of speakers, abrupt scene changes (king’s chambers, vineyards, pastureland, Pharaoh’s stables, leafy bower, wine house)…
Imagining the Lectionary: Child-like trust is the key to the Kingdom (Proper 22B/Ordinary 27B)
Imagining the Lectionary: Child-like trust is the key to the Kingdom (Proper 22B/Ordinary 27B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Child-like trust is the key to the Kingdom (Proper 22B/Ordinary 27B) Reflection accompanying images: “Receive the kingdom of God like a child” “Trust like a child’s” “You will not be overcome” If Methodism sings its theology, Catholicism carves it. Tucke…
Love opens doors
Love opens doors
by Anna Blanch Rabe
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 placing the image in…
Story/Reflection-Zacchaeus
Story/Reflection-Zacchaeus
by Sue Brown
Zacchaeus remembers. Zacchaeus For a child it’s always hard being different: too fat, too thin, too tall or, like me, too small. The deep hurt of rejection – “not you, you can’t play with us, you’re not big enough” – stays with you somewhere deep down, no longer thought of, but…
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