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Mark for Everyone - A Lamp on Its Stand
Mark for Everyone - A Lamp on Its Stand
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 4.21–25 A Lamp on Its Stand... ...Yesterday I took part in a procession. It started outside St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, and as Big Ben struck the hour we began to move, singing hymns, around the green and into the great west doors of Westminster Abbe…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Third Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 2.14a, 36–41 1 Peter 1.17–23 Luke 24.13–35 Today’s readings bubble over with the excitement of the new moment that has dawned in Israel’s story, in the world’s story, with the resurrection. It isn’t merely that God is offering a new kind o…
Advent
Advent
by Digistry
Four short movies for Advent Clip 1 - God is coming A call to Worship Based on Mark 13:24-37 Lectionary: Advent 1 B Clip 2 - Prepare the way A call to Worship Based on Isaiah 40:1-11 And Mark 1:1-8 Lectionary: Advent 2 B Clip 3 - Testify to the Light A call to Worship Based on Jo…
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - MORE PREGNANT SAYINGS
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - MORE PREGNANT SAYINGS
by BRF - Dick France
MORE PREGNANT SAYINGS MARK 4: 21-25 Before we come to the two other ‘story-parables’ of chapter 4, Mark offers us a collection of short sayings which together explore further the nature of revelation and how we must respond to the truth revealed…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 6 (1.1) The Problem
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 6 (1.1) The Problem
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
The Problem This first essay is composed of four sections that are as follows: 1.1. The Problem: Divisions, Baptism and the Cross (1:10-16) 1.2. The Wisdom and Power of God: The Cross (1:17–2:2) 1.3. The Wisdom of God: Revealed Through the Spirit (2:3-16) 1.4. Christian Unity: Pa…
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - First Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – First Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A Isaiah 42:1-9 Psalm 29 Acts 10:34-43 Matthew 3:13-17 There are different faces of God revealed in today’s readings, and in Matthew’s gospel the three persons of the Trinity come together at the baptism of Jesus, as his ministry beg…
Moulin Rouge Bible Study Part 3
Moulin Rouge Bible Study Part 3
by Tim Marshall
A Bible Study which relies heavily on discussion rather than leading. Using the film 'Moulin Rouge' as a starting point and then looking at a variety of passages (which can be obtained from the web in a variety of different translations) There are questions to help start discussi…
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - New meal, new family - 4
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - New meal, new family - 4
by SPCK - Tom Wright
4 New meal, new family Part One HOW IT ALL BEGAN One more scene, and then we’ll stop play-acting. This, though, is where the story really starts, so we’re going to go into it a little more deeply, and take three chapters over it. We’re going back to Turkey, to a little town a hun…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Second Sunday Ordinary Time Yr A Isaiah 49:1-7 Psalm 40:1-11 John 1:29-42 There is the shock of sudden recognition in the gospel reading today. It is an experience some of us have, perhaps once in a lifetime, when we see in someone or in an event, the fulfilment of …
Mark for Everyone - Peter’s Declaration of Jesus’ Messiahship
Mark for Everyone - Peter’s Declaration of Jesus’ Messiahship
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 8.22–30 Peter’s Declaration of Jesus’ Messiahship... ...It’s quite a walk from Bethsaida to Caesarea Philippi. Even in a car, on modern roads, the trip takes an hour or two. Bethsaida is near the north shore of the Sea of Galilee; Caesarea Philippi is away …
Great Christian Thinkers - 54 John of Salisbury
Great Christian Thinkers - 54 John of Salisbury
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
John of Salisbury We shall become acquainted here with John of Salisbury, who belonged to one of the most important schools of philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages, that of the Cathedral of Chartres in France. Like the theologians of whom I have spoken in the past few chapt…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 10 Christian Unity Paul, Apollos and Cephas as One