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Waiting - A Pentecost Reflection
Waiting - A Pentecost Reflection
by Colin Smith
This reflection/sermon focuses upon the period of waiting between the resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The experience of the disciples is compared with our present day impatience when having to wait. The lessons we can learn from waiting are highlighte…
50 Praise, Pray and Play Sessions - Love | Fruit of the Spirit
50 Praise, Pray and Play Sessions - Love | Fruit of the Spirit
by BRF - Rona Orme
This session introduces the theme of the nine fruit of the Spirit. Nearly everyone has some understanding of what love is, so the Bible character featured is Herod, who did not show love. Session aim To understand that the Holy Spirit can give love to bless family, friends and th…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Glossary
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Glossary
by SPCK - N T Wright
GLOSSARY Acts for Everyone Part 2 age to come, see present age apostle, disciple, the Twelve ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Pau…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 4.5-12 1John 3.16-24 John 10.11-18 Today’s readings are deeply challenging. Christian mission has sometimes been done as though determined to prove that we are right and everyone else is wrong, whereas all of today’s writers think that Christians …
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 10 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 10 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 10 Amos 7: 7-15 Ephesians-1: 3-14 Mark 6: 14-29 ‘The letter to the Ephesians sets the life of the Christian Church in the context of the cosmic plan of God. The letter will go on to give quite detailed advice about how Christians should live together, day to day, but it is…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 12 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 12 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 12 2 Kings 4. 42-44 Ephesians 3: 14-21 John 6: 1-21 The story of the feeding of the five thousand is found in all four Gospels, making it one of the best attested of Jesus’s miracles. John’s Gospel sometimes uses memories and stories that clearly come from different source…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 11 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 11 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 11 Jeremiah 23: 1-6 Ephesians-2: 11-22 Mark 6: 30-34, 53-56 In today’s reading from Mark’s Gospel, we get a strong sense of the enormous pressure Jesus and the disciples were under at this point in his ministry. Jesus is at the height of his popularity and although his con…
Body - Chapter 4 - A spiritual body?
Body - Chapter 4 - A spiritual body?
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
A spiritual body? The climax of Paul’s reflection on resurrection bodies comes in 1 Corinthians 15.42–46. Having set up the analogy of resurrection bodies being like a seed that is planted in the ground which needs to be transformed, Paul then laid down parameters which shape how…
Body - Chapter 4 - A spiritual body? (part 2)
Body - Chapter 4 - A spiritual body? (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
A spiritual body? (part 2) Mortal bodies Where Paul’s language about bodies overlaps with his language of flesh is precisely when he is talking about bodies of the old creation. One of the important features of Paul’s theology is that he appears to be attempting to make a new and…
Body - Chapter 8 - The body of Christ
Body - Chapter 8 - The body of Christ
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The body of Christ The fugue on the body, which we explored in the previous chapter, brings us at last to Paul’s central and key exploration of a body – the body of Christ. We are so familiar with this image that it is easy to overlook its significance in Paul and how it relates …
The Women's Bible Commentary - No Male and Female?
The Women's Bible Commentary - No Male and Female?
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
No Male and Female? To illustrate the diversity of the body of Christ, Paul asserts that “in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit” (12:13). Behind this verse is a baptismal formula, reproduced…
the historical character of Jesus - 2e Jesus the Baptist?
the historical character of Jesus - 2e Jesus the Baptist?
by SPCK - David Allen
Jesus the Baptist? If Peter’s healing is partly about the continuation of what Jesus of Nazareth had begun, then one might ask the same question regarding baptismal practice. The first thing that Peter requires in the aftermath of the gift of the Spirit is that his hearers repent…
John The People's Commentary - Prophet or Messiah?
John The People's Commentary - Prophet or Messiah?
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Prophet or Messiah? As the story unfolds, Jesus has gently led the woman to a greater understanding of who he is, from her initial ignorance (4:9) to calling him ‘sir’ (4:11, 15); as he confronted her with the facts of her life, she began to wonder if he might be greater than Jac…
Mere Apologetics - 2 Apologetics and Contemporary Culture