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Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: Fourth Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Thursday: Fourth Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 4: THURSDAY Matthew 21.23 – 46; focused on 21.33 – 45 I was taking a service in a local church when this passage was the second reading. Over at the side of the church was a family with a three-year-old boy who appeared to be playing with his toys, taking no notice of the se…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 8 Elizabeth
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 8 Elizabeth
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Chapter 8 Elizabeth In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife was a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all th…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 1 Anna
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 1 Anna
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Chapter 1 Anna There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshipped there with f…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 7 Joseph
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 7 Joseph
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Chapter 7 Joseph Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her …
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 2 Rachel
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 2 Rachel
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Chapter 2 Rachel When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what had b…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 5 David
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 5 David
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Chapter 5 David In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; for…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 3 Herod
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Chapter 3 Herod
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Chapter 3 Herod When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him; and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. They told him, ‘In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it has been written…
clouds and glory - Proper 21 - Year A
clouds and glory - Proper 21 - Year A
by SPCK - David Adam
Proper 21 Year A Lord, as you came down to lift us up Help us to show compassion and sympathy to others. Give to your church a sense of service and humility. May we be obedient to you, seeking to do your will at all times, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Easter Saturday Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Easter Saturday Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
EASTER SATURDAY Matthew 22.34 – 40 ‘So what’s your all-time favourite song, then?’I listened as John put his friend on the spot. They had been discussing music of various sorts and styles. This was a way of getting to the heart of the matter. ‘Let me play safe,’ the friend rep…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Easter Day Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Easter Day Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Easter Day- Year A Jeremiah 31.1–6 Colossians 3.1–4 John 20.1–18 Again you shall plant vineyards; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy the fruit. Jeremiah echoes Deuteronomy’s promise of covenant renewal, and points forward to John’s Easter garden. Mary was on the right trac…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Easter Monday Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Easter Monday Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
ASTER MONDAY Matthew 28.11–15 One of the things people have often said about the early Christians’ belief in Jesus’ resurrection is that they were obviously so devastated by the failure of their dreams and hopes that they found a way of saying it was all right after all. A grand-…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Palm Sunday The Liturgy of the Passion Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Palm Sunday The Liturgy of the Passion Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Palm Sunday (Liturgy of the Passion) Isaiah 50.4–9a Philippians 2.5–11 Luke 22.14—23.56 Isaiah 50 strikes a jarring note in the Palm Sunday celebrations. Which is just as well: we know the end of the story, the fickleness of the crowd, the turning of cheers to jeers. The only Hos…
Simply Good News - Praying the Good News
Simply Good News - Praying the Good News
by SPCK - N T Wright
Praying the Good News When Jesus went about telling people the good news, he gave them a prayer to pray. The word gospel, meaning ‘good news,’ doesn’t feature explicitly in this prayer. But what the prayer does instead is to give us an important way of getting inside the good new…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 19 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 19 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 19 Jeremiah 4.11–28 1 Timothy 1.12–17 Luke 15.1–10 In a recent article, a priest from another tradition described the cheerful mixture of spiritualities which made up his regular personal prayer. It was a vivid and moving account of a busy man nourishing and cherishing a s…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 16 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 16 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 16 Jeremiah 1.4–10 Hebrews 12.18–end Luke 13.10–17 Moses said he wasn’t a speaker. Isaiah said his lips were tainted. Ezekiel fell on his face. And Jeremiah says he’s too young. One might, perhaps, be a trifle suspicious if God’s call to prophecy met with too ready a respo…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 8 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 8 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 8 2 Kings 2.1–14 Galatians 5.1, 13–25 Luke 9.51–end ‘Leave the dead to bury their dead.’ One of Jesus’ starkest commands, this flies in the face of the sacred Jewish obligation to attend to the burial of one’s father ahead of all other duties, even saying one’s daily praye…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C