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Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Third Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Third Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 3: TUESDAY Matthew 15.1–20; focused on 15.1– 9 Germs and Jesus!’ shouted the seven-year-old son of a friend of mine. ‘Germs and Jesus! You keep telling me they’re important and I can’t see either of them!’ A fascinating response to a pressing parental problem. We tell our…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: Third Week in lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: Third Week in lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 3: WEDNESDAY Matthew 15.21–38; focused on 15.21–28 Let’s listen in on this conversation. Stand in the crowd and see what you think. We’re up north now, away from Galilee. Jesus has already spoken of this region (‘the district of Tyre and Sidon’) in such a way as to make it…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 5: TUESDAY Matthew 24; focused on 24.45 –51 I vividly remember my first experience of working on a building site. I was a student, earning some money during the vacation. The work was physically hard – or rather, it would have been if we had kept it up all day. There was a…
Job for Everyone - The God of Wrath
Job for Everyone - The God of Wrath
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The God of Wrath Job 9: 1-35 We were preparing dinner for people in a homeless shelter on Friday when out of the blue my pastor asked me, “What do you say when people ask you why the God of the Old Testament is so different from the God of the New Testament?” Quick as a flash I r…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday Holy Week Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday Holy Week Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
HOLY WEEK: HOLY SATURDAY Matthew 27.57– 66 They tried to keep Jesus safely dead then, and they try it still today. Again and again, when the newspapers or the radio stations want to talk about God, they ignore Jesus. We hear experts proclaiming that science has disproved God – wi…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Saturday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
EK 1: SATURDAY Matthew 17.1– 9 Imagine yourself as a fifth member of the party, going up the mountain with Jesus leading the way, Peter beside him, and James and John following too. The last days and weeks have been utterly bewildering. Nothing like this has happened to you befor…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 1: FRIDAY Matthew 9; focused on 9.9 –17 Those of us who now use computers take it for granted that they will have a large internal memory. This is stored on what is called a ‘hard disk’, as opposed to what we used to have, back in the 1980s, which was a ‘floppy disk’, which …
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 2 of Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 2 of Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: MONDAY Matthew 10.1–15 Every so often, usually just after a change of government, there is a spate of political autobiographies, as former leaders do their best to cash in on the public’s hunger to find out ‘the inside story’. One of the most fascinating elements of such …
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: TUESDAY Matthew 10.16 – 42; focused on 10.16 –25 Let’s stand on the edge of the crowd and listen as Jesus gives his twelve disciples these next instructions. Some of the Twelve are looking decidedly uncomfortable, but there’s nothing they can do about it. Jesus has called…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 5: MONDAY Matthew 24; focused on 24.15 –28 Browsing in an old library the other day, I came upon a book of cartoons from the late nineteenth century. They were political satires, commenting on the affairs of state of the time. Several different politicians were lampooned; al…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Friday: Week 5 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 5: FRIDAY Matthew 26.1–13 Time to become a fly on the wall again, this time in a little house just two or three miles east of Jerusalem. If you’re in the old city of Jerusalem first thing in the morning, the chances are that when the sun rises it will come up right through B…
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…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Good Friday Year A