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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Blood Cries Out
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Blood Cries Out
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Blood Cries Out Genesis 4: 10-13 I write the week after bombings and attacks in Mumbai that killed hundreds of people. “This is our 9/11,” many Indians said. They did not merely mean that these were attacks on a vast and savage scale, carried out with unprecedented sophistication
Traces of Glory Year B - Day of Pentecost - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - Day of Pentecost - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
The Day of Pentecost Come, Holy Spirit, Come upon us, Come around us, come within us; Come to lead us, come to guide us, That we may work in your power, And rest in your presence: Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with you and the Father, One god, for ever. Amen
Traces of Glory Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
The Second Sunday of Easter Christ, our risen Lord, no tomb can keep you, No door is closed to you, ne heart is barred to you, No mind is shut off from you. Come lead us out of the darkness into light, Out of doubt into faith, out of death into life eternal: Jesus Christ our rise
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday
LWPT Meditations - Trinity Sunday
by Susan Thorne
26 May 2013 LWPT Meditation Trinity Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Psalm 8 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 It happens every year. The preaching plan for May and June is issued, and someone is heard to complain about being lumbered with Trinity Sunday. “I preached at the same church last year o
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Easter Day - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Easter Day Year B Psalm 118: 1-2, 19-29 Ezekiel 37: 1-14 Mark 16: 1-8 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 God makes impossible things possible When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, they became trapped on the shores of the Red Sea, with Pharaoh’s army in hot pursuit.
Monologue: All in white shall stand around
Monologue: All in white shall stand around
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue: All in white shall stand around All in white shall stand around? That's how the old carol has it, doesn't it? Sounds like a decorators' convention at best, at worst boring! Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to be irreverent, but it just doesn't make sense? I mean are
Revelation bible study guide - The Day Is Coming
Revelation bible study guide - The Day Is Coming
by SPCK - N T Wright
THE DAY IS COMING Revelation 6 All doctors, and all pastors, know that when someone comes to them with a problem, the problem they talk about may not be the only problem they have. The pain that gets someone into the doctor’s office may well be only a symptom of much deeper ills,
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - On the Unimportance of Spiritual Insight
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - On the Unimportance of Spiritual Insight
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On the Unimportance of Spiritual Insight JUDGES 5:31b- 6: 24 I have just been talking to a couple I have not seen for a year or two, exchanging news about our children and their marriages and their families. This other couple has several daughters. The last of these was almost th
Job for Everyone - Same Old, Same Old
Job for Everyone - Same Old, Same Old
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Same Old, Same Old Job 11: 1-20 As I write it is Holy Week, and last Sunday we read the passion story from Matthew with its exotic account of tombs opening in Jerusalem so that people came out and wandered around after Jesus’ death and in anticipation of his resurrection. It’s an
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 15 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 15 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Ordinary Time Proper 15 Genesis 45.1–15 Romans 11.1–2a, 29–32 Matthew 15.10–28 Look at the word God in Genesis 45. All these years later, with plenty of free time to ponder his brothers’ evil deeds and build up resentment, what comes out of Jos
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Swallow Your Pride
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Swallow Your Pride
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Swallow Your Pride JOSHUA 9: 22- 10: 11 In the church where I was a young assistant pastor, I shared a house with an older man called Charles who in U.S.-speak would be called the janitor but in Brit-speak was called the caretaker. I don’t remember how he had been appointe
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 25 Year C