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Reflection/monologue: God and Nineveh
Reflection/monologue: God and Nineveh
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/monologue: God and Nineveh God must have loved Nineveh. Look how much trouble he took to save it. The right man had to be sent, but what happened when God told him to get on with it? Jonah said, ‘No fear! I’m not going near the place. I’m off in the other direction as …
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 1 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 1 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 1 Isaiah 40.21–31 1 Corinthians 9.16–23 Mark 1.29–39 There are two complicated, separate yet related themes running through today’s readings. The first is to do with proclamation – all three passages talk about the ways in which God makes himself known to us. The second is…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Same Spirit at Work
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Same Spirit at Work
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Same Spirit at Work 1 Corinthians 12.1-11 One of the most exciting experiences of my teenage years was playing in an orchestra at school. I had learned the piano for a year or two, but you normally play that without other musicians joining in. Now I began the trombone. Of cou…
Jesus preached, the people pondered words
Jesus preached, the people pondered words
by Andrew Pratt
Jesus preached, the people pondered words to challenge and convict; they would rather hold to power, these were facts to contradict. Faced with truth we need to grasp the honesty of what is said, all too often we resist the things we hear or what is read. Continues... Tune: ALL F…
2 Corinthians - God Loves a Cheerful Giver
2 Corinthians - God Loves a Cheerful Giver
by SPCK - N T Wright
God Loves a Cheerful Giver 2 CORINTHIANS 9.6-15 Imagine trying to pack an umbrella into a cardboard tube. If you try putting the handle in first it will be difficult. Even if the handle is straight, you will find that the metal tips of the umbrella’s struts get caught on the edge…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 17.22–31 1 Peter 3.13–22 John 14.15–21 It is hard to tell if Paul’s famous speech at the Areopagus is a triumph or a disaster of evangelism. He has done his preparation well – one of the basic rules of preaching. He has walked around the c…
the historical character of Jesus - 1b Sources for the study of Jesus
the historical character of Jesus - 1b Sources for the study of Jesus
by SPCK - David Allen
Sources for the study of Jesus At the outset of our discussion, though, it is probably worth establishing the purpose or value of an exercise such as this. After all, books on Jesus abound, not perhaps to the scale alluded to in John 21.25, but to a significant extent nonetheless…
the historical character of Jesus - 4b Jesus in Ephesians
the historical character of Jesus - 4b Jesus in Ephesians
by SPCK - David Allen
Jesus in Ephesians The close similarity between Ephesians and Colossians is a well-established datum of NT scholarship. Ephesians shares, exceeds even, the emphasis on the exaltedness of Christ in Colossians and his supremacy over rulers, powers and authorities (Eph. 1.20 –23).15…
Great Christian Thinkers - 58 St. Dominic De Guzman
Great Christian Thinkers - 58 St. Dominic De Guzman
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Dominic De Guzman Having presented the luminous figure of Francis of Assisi and also Clare of Assisi, I talk now about another saint of the same period who made a fundamental contribution to the renewal of the Church of his time: St. Dominic, the Founder of the Order of Preac…
journeying with John - Preface: What is this book about?
journeying with John - Preface: What is this book about?
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
Preface: What is this book about? The Revised Common Lectionary has established itself both in Anglican parishes and in other denominations as the framework within which the Bible is read on Sundays in public worship…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Aims of a Zealous Pharisee
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Aims of a Zealous Pharisee
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL The Aims of a Zealous Pharisee Part of the answer to this question is easy; part is more controversial. The two outer limits are easy. First, personal purity. This has been sufficiently explored in ma…
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Abbreviations and Introduction With these few elementary notes on lectio divina, we hope to have provided readers with an opportunity to renew or develop a taste for a way of reading Scripture which is as old as the church itself, and which has deep roots in Judaism. I don’t thin…
Transforming Preaching - Learning through reflection
Transforming Preaching - Learning through reflection
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event Preaching for learning If our ministry of preaching is to be effective we need to do at least two things: to understand the role of sermons in the context of the learning that is already taking place in our congregations through reflection; and to…
Poem:Quarrelling about words
Poem:Quarrelling about words
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/meditation/reflection: Quarrelling about words If we believe in God and in what Jesus did and said and how he lived and died and how that same Spirit that was in Jesus is still with us in our world today, then we have the essence of our faith and all the truth that we need t…
Mark for Everyone - A Prophet in His Own Town