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Simply Good News - A Different Kind of King
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of King
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Different Kind of King That is why, throughout Jesus’s public career, he talked about the good news of God’s kingdom, redefining the idea of God’s kingdom as he went along. God was coming back to take charge, he said. But it didn’t look like what people had imagined…
Simply Good News - The Power of Love
Simply Good News - The Power of Love
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Power of Love The clash between Jesus and the powers of the world – between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of humans – was never about God simply having a bit more power than humans, so that he could manage to beat them at their own game. It isn’t that God has stronger ta…
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - WHAT SORT of KING?
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - WHAT SORT of KING?
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
WHAT SORT of KING Although Mary’s anointing Jesus’ feet hinted at a burial, rather than anointing the head as for a king, the next scene looks like a coronation. Once again, John tells it differently from the other gospels with a particular focus on what it means to call Jesus ki…
Echoing the Word - Breaking the bread
Echoing the Word - Breaking the bread
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
17 Breaking the bread The breaking of the bread is the third of the four actions of Jesus at the last supper: taking, giving thanks, breaking, giving. At a certain level it is a purely utilitarian action: bread needs to be broken if it is to be shared. But the ‘fraction’, as it i…
Watching the sun set
Watching the sun set
by Helen Bee
Silhouette of adult watching the sun set over a calm ocean. 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.…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Four Gospels,... Four Portraits
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Four Gospels,... Four Portraits
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Four Gospels,… Four portraits Deep in the heart of the Kent countryside, perched on the side of a gentle hill sloping from the Downs to the flat plain of the Kentish Weald, is a large country house. Chartwell, as it is known, was the country home of Sir Winston Churchill from 192…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Material Culture
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Material Culture
by SPCK - N T Wright
2. The Rhetoric of Empire (II) Material Culture Augustus claimed – it has since become a cliché – that he found Rome brick and left it marble. As Galinsky points out, this was more than simply a metaphor.44 New shiny buildings dominated the centre of the city, with new temples in…
Mary's travelling to Bethlehem town
Mary's travelling to Bethlehem town
by Avis Palmer
Mary's travelling to Bethlehem town, Christmas hope, rejoicing and peace. Requiring rest, she's tired and worn, Finds a barn where her son is born. Christ is cradled in Bethlehem town, Christmas hope, rejoicing and peace. Receiving his first kiss and caress, Heaven is held and wo…
We seek the welfare of this place
We seek the welfare of this place
by Michael Docker
We seek the welfare of this place; Where people work and rest and play Looking to all that makes for peace In Christ the Truth, the Life, the Way. We trust that here God works his work Through all life's changing, growing scenes; Lighting a way through all that's dark - Lending C…
Psalms for Everyone - Be Still and Know That I am God
Psalms for Everyone - Be Still and Know That I am God
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Be Still and Know That I Am God Psalm 46 For nearly a thousand years, most of what is now Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other areas comprised the Holy Roman Empire. It had a legislative assembly confusingly called a diet, which in 1521 met at a Germ…
Gifts in Open Hands: More Worship Resources for the Global Community (The Pilgrim Press) - Hear the word of grace
Gifts in Open Hands: More Worship Resources for the Global Community (The Pilgrim Press) - Hear the word of grace
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn is based on the wording of the Absolution in the liturgy. It encourages us to accept God's gift of forgiveness and live at peace with ourselves and others.
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - The Sundays before Lent
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - The Sundays before Lent
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
4 The Sundays before Lent Exploring the text The readings for the Sundays before Lent are, with one exception, taken from the first of Matthew’s five narratives and discourses, which we noted in the Introduction to this book (see pp. 7–8). In fact, they are taken from the most fa…
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Ordinary Time
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Ordinary Time
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
8 Ordinary Time Exploring the text One of the themes of Matthew’s Gospel that recurs over and over again (and especially in the readings that appear during Ordinary Time) is the theme of what it means to be a community, and in particular what it means to be the Jesus community...
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 38:8, 10