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52 Reflections on Faith - Justification by faith: Computer studies
52 Reflections on Faith - Justification by faith: Computer studies
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Justification by faith: Computer studies Sometime back in the late 1980s, I took an adventurous step and bought an Amstrad computer. Thinking of it now, it feels like a computer dinosaur. Actually, mine was only a word processor and I bought it partly, at least, under the sad ill…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday of Easter Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Third Sunday of Easter Acts 3.12-19 1 John 3.1-7 Luke 24.36-48 The ancient world knew all about ghosts, visions, apparitions, and spooks. Ancient literature has plenty of people being found alive after being supposed dead, plenty of spirits of the dead returning to haunt, spy…
Reflective Caring - ipad/iphone/itouch - Sony
Reflective Caring - ipad/iphone/itouch - Sony
by SPCK - Bob Whorton
Arising from the work of a pastoral team in a hospice, this book is an invitation to reflect on what happens in our innermost being when we listen to another person in need. The lived experience of a hospice chaplain, dialogues with different parts of the self and an imaginative …
Body, spirit and spirituality
Body, spirit and spirituality
by Colin Smith
This short reflection/sermon (867 words) explains our spirituality as being confined within a physical body whilst we live here on earth. God, however is not so confined but he uses us to operate in the world. Thus the importance of aligning His will to ours in building his ki…
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Word became Flesh
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Word became Flesh
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
The Word became Flesh Like an overture, the Prologue introduces the gospel’s major themes. First, John arranged his composition against a cosmic backdrop of the realm of divine light above and our dark world below…
Imagining the Lectionary: Espalier for the soul (Advent 1C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Espalier for the soul (Advent 1C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Espalier for the soul (Advent 1C) Reflection accompanying images: “Espaliered trees against stone wall” and “Espaliered trees detail of binding and support” And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we ab…
Hymn: Beyond imagination
Hymn: Beyond imagination
by Andrew Pratt
Beyond imagination, a sacrifice of grace: the Godhead seems diminished, one of the human race. Now humbled for a lifetime to share our human breath, and once the task was finished to suffer human death. Verses 3-4 follow Tune: PASSION CHORALE Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 17…
Once born as the Christ-child, and living among us
Once born as the Christ-child, and living among us
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Once born as the Christ-child, and living among us Third Sunday of Easter 1 Peter 17 - 23 Once born as the Christ-child, and living among us, at one with humanity, sharing our pain. betrayed in self-giving, poured out for our living, in thought word and action, God making l…
Job for Everyone - The Mysteries of Nature
Job for Everyone - The Mysteries of Nature
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Mysteries of Nature Job 38 39- 39: 30 Often the first thing I hear in the morning is the squawking of a group of parrots who wander around our city, the descendants (says the urban legend) of pet birds that escaped from or were released by their owners. When I sit at my desk,…
Poem: The wisdom of women: discernment of thought