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Deep Church Rising - 5 Deep Faith
Deep Church Rising - 5 Deep Faith
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Deep Faith Orthodoxia as Right Believing The community of Christ-followers has always been a very diverse faith community. From the very first those who confessed Jesus as Messiah and Lord worked out this confession in diverse local contexts with diverse theological emphases and …
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - The Mission Begins in Galilee
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - The Mission Begins in Galilee
by BRF - Dick France
The Mission Begins in Galilee The prologue is over. We are no longer ‘in the wilderness’, but in the real world of ordinary men and women in the villages of Galilee. This is Jesus’ home province, though the focus of his mission will prove to be not in the hills around Nazareth bu…
Poem: Pilate reacts
Poem: Pilate reacts
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Pilate reacts What kind of king are you, you Jew? The priests condemn you for they say you spite them, yet you will not fight them. They say you claim to be a king to rule them. Do you just fool them? They throw your talk of kingdom in your face. You say that it is not your…
How God Became King - 8c Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism
How God Became King - 8c Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism
by SPCK - N T Wright
Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism As we saw earlier, the Judaism of the postexilic period had quite a well-developed narrative of God and empire. Even though many Jews longed for God to become king in the full, complete way he’d promised, they still believed that in t…
Drama - Kitchen Talk
Drama - Kitchen Talk
by Kit Walkham
A two person drama (M or F) based on Acts 10. A Roman and a Jewish Christian talk as they prepare a meal for Peter and company to share with new convert Cornelius. The old barriers to sharing food have gone as a fresh wind blows. This item will download as 10031009222071.pdf Extr…
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Whose is the Kingdom of God?
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Whose is the Kingdom of God?
by BRF - Dick France
Whose is the Kingdom of God? The ‘kingdom of God’ is mentioned twice in these verses, and three times more in verses 23–25. The phrase, as we have seen, means ‘God’s rule’, and what the disciples are being forced to face in this series of incidents are some of the radically diffe…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Publicy Vindicated
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Publicy Vindicated
by SPCK - N T Wright
Publicly Vindicated Acts 16.35-40 One of the most famous cases in ancient Roman law was the one brought by the young upstart barrister Cicero against the rich, aristocratic proconsul Gaius Verres. Verres, like many Roman aristocrats of his generation, had discovered how to play t…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 37 The Essenes: Spotlight on a Sect
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 37 The Essenes: Spotlight on a Sect
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Essenes: Spotlight on a Sect Scholars will, no doubt, continue to debate whether or not the Pharisees were a ‘sect’. There can be no such debate about the group that lived at Qumran, by the north-west shore of the Dead Sea…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 8 Mutuality
The Monastery Of The Heart - 8 Mutuality
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Mutuality “We intend to establish a school for God’s service. We hope to set down nothing harsh, nothing burdensome.” Community is a matter of the heart and the mind. It cannot be created by place alone, and it cannot be destroyed by distance alone… Taken from The Monastery Of Th…
Simply Good News - Getting the Balance Right
Simply Good News - Getting the Balance Right
by SPCK - N T Wright
Getting the Balance Right The good news, then, is good news about the present as well as the past and the future. Despite the secular claim that all real advances in the world are the result of secular modernism, and despite the barrage of hostility launched against the church by…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Mountains
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Mountains
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Mountains For some strange reason, human beings connect mountains with God. In many ancient religions, worship took place on the ‘high places’. Even today, we talk of ‘mountain-top experiences’, despite having left behind the notion that mountains are closer to God’s supposed dwe…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 30 The Story of Israel
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 30 The Story of Israel
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Story of Israel, 587 bc–ad 70 The story of second-temple Judaism is one of tension and tragedy. The Babylonians had destroyed the first Temple in 587 bc. Ever since then, those who looked to Jerusalem, and its Temple, as the centre of their homeland, and as their very raison-…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 34 The Agenda and Influence of the Pharisees
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 34 The Agenda and Influence of the Pharisees
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Agenda and Influence of the Pharisees cntd It is beyond a doubt that for quite some time before 63 bc there existed a pressure-group, known at least by its enemies as ‘Pharisees’. This group, not necessarily numerous, seems to have arisen around or after the time of the Macca…
How God Became King - Preface (part 1)
How God Became King - Preface (part 1)
by SPCK - N T Wright
Preface (part 1) It has been slowly dawning on me over many years that there is a fundamental problem deep at the heart of Christian faith and practice as I have known them. This problem can be summarized quite easily: we have all forgotten what the four gospels are about…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 20 Stability of Heart