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Journeying with Luke - Christmas and Epiphany
Journeying with Luke - Christmas and Epiphany
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
Christmas and Epiphany Exploring the text Each of the Gospel writers addresses the themes of Christmas (the birth of Jesus) and Epiphany (the revelation of who he was) differently. Mark omits them entirely. Matthew has Jesus’ birth followed by the adoration of the Magi, and Luke’…
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Lent
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Lent
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
5 Lent Exploring the text The Lectionary provides us with slim pickings from Matthew during Lent, since during Lent most of the Gospel readings are from John. This gives us time, therefore, to reflect more deeply on the story of Jesus’ temptation in Matthew...
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 36:1, 10
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 36:1, 10
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 36:1, 10 In the chapel at Bishop’s Lodge where we live and work there’s a sculpture over the Lord’s Table of Jesus bent over the city weeping, ‘If only you knew the things that make for peace’ (see Luke 19.41– 42). For centuries the Church has built up the experience of com…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 37: 4, 7, 32
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 37: 4, 7, 32
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 37. 4, 7, 32 The promise of God to give us our heart’s desires is conditional. When our heart is in tune with God’s heart and hence our will with his will then, as Jesus said, ‘Ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you’ (John 15.7 nrsv). The secret is to stay c…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 24 Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 24 Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 24 Job 38.1-7 [34-41] Hebrews 5.1-10 Mark 10.35-45 ‘Were you there,’ asks the old song, ‘when they crucified my Lord?’ ‘Were you there,’ the Lord enquires of Job, ‘when I laid the foundation of the earth?’ Both questions receive the answer ‘No’, but for different reasons; …
Job for Everyone - Covenant or Contract?
Job for Everyone - Covenant or Contract?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Covenant or Contract Job 1: 6-12 Yesterday the air-conditioning/heating maintenance office called. After we had a big problem with the air conditioning last year, I took out a maintenance contract to try to avoid a recurrence of problems of that magnitude, so I now pay a certain …
Mountain-top, imagination?
Mountain-top, imagination?
by Andrew Pratt
Mountain-top, imagination? Time for meeting face to face? Peter, James and John were praying, now they stand confused by grace. Shining in this mystic moment stands the one they know as friend, now exalted God incarnate, this they strain to comprehend. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: HYF…
Journeying With Mark Year B - Christmas
Journeying With Mark Year B - Christmas
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
2 Christmas Exploring the text Mark’s Gospel provides slim pickings at Christmas time. Unlike the Gospels of Matthew and Luke it provides no run-up to the birth of Jesus and no account of the events surrounding his birth. It does not even, like John’s Gospel, provide a poetic int…
Journeying With Mark Year B - Advent
Journeying With Mark Year B - Advent
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
1 Advent Exploring the text The season of Advent is about waiting, both for the Jesus who came to earth as a baby and for the victorious, risen and ascended Christ who will return to earth as King. One of the challenges of Advent is to keep our vision fixed not only on the more t…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Third Sunday before Advent Year B