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PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Reflections on the Religious World of Paul's Day
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Reflections on the Religious World of Paul's Day
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter Four A COCK FOR ASCLEPIUS: ‘RELIGION’ AND ‘CULTURE’ IN PAUL’S WORLD 3. Reflections on the Religious World of Paul’s Day The main thing to emerge for our purposes from this short survey is that what Cicero and others referred to loosely with the word religio penetrated mor…
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Easter
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Easter
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
7 Easter Exploring the text The stories of Jesus’ resurrection begin, oddly perhaps to our minds, in the stories of his burial. The accounts of the burial of Jesus’ body are often skipped over as we move from a focus on his death to his resurrection. However, all the Gospel accou…
Mark for Everyone - The Twelve Sent Out
Mark for Everyone - The Twelve Sent Out
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 6.7–13 The Twelve Sent Out... ...‘No time for coffee this morning,’ I told my teenage son today. ‘You’ve got a train to catch. You need to be at that meeting.’ He had emerged, sleepily, half an hour before his train left; it takes at least 20 minutes to get…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Searcher of Hearts
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Searcher of Hearts
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 1 NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING ON PRAYER THE TEACHING OF PAUL THE SEARCHER OF HEARTS Romans 8: 22-23, 26-27 How many names can you think of for God? It may sound an odd question. God’s proper name in the Old Testament is of course YHWH; but he is referred to in a great many other …
Jesus Commissions the Twelve
Jesus Commissions the Twelve
by Dave Hopwood
A New Kind of Fishing Bible Ref: Matthew 4,8,9 &12; Mark 1-3; Luke 4-6; John 4 & 5 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to …
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 11 The Death of Jesus
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 11 The Death of Jesus
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Death of Jesus The crucifixion and death of Jesus is the “crucial” event of the shared gospel story, the climactic occurrence to which the whole course of events has been leading. Crucifixion was an excessively cruel and drawn-out mode of execution, designed to shock and inti…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Last Sunday after Trinity Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Last Sunday after Trinity Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Lectionary reflections - Year A Ordinary Time The Last Sunday After Trinity Leviticus 19.1–2, 15–18 1 Thessalonians 2.1–8 Matthew 22.34–46 1 Thessalonians is almost certainly the oldest document in the New Testament. As in so many other things, Paul is a pioneer. It is hard for u…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 14 Year A