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John The People's Commentary - The Light comes to a Blind Man
John The People's Commentary - The Light comes to a Blind Man
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
The Light comes to a Blind Man The story of how the light of the world comes to heal a blind man is beautifully written. Although it is self-contained in chapter 9, its part in the development of the gospel is significant…
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Light in the Darkness
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Light in the Darkness
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Light in the Darkness Greek philosophy and many eastern religions had an essential ‘dualism’, a separation between the material world and the spiritual realm. God exists in brilliant light in the world above, while we live in the darkness of created matter…
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Water into Wine
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Water into Wine
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
WATER into WINE John describes the events at Cana as the first of Jesus’ ‘signs’ and thus it stands at the start of his ministry as a foretaste of what is to come and an introduction to the rest. So what is the meaning of this miracle, apart from merely saving the blushes of the …
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Do You Want to be Healed?
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Do You Want to be Healed?
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Do You Want to be Healed? This new chapter begins with the mention of ‘a feast of the Jews’ (5:1). Various Jewish feasts provide the backdrop for the next chapters: we have already seen one Passover in 2:13, and the next Passover happens in 6:4. Then the feast of Tabernacles is t…
John The People's Commentary - I Am The Way, Truth & Life
John The People's Commentary - I Am The Way, Truth & Life
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
I Am The Way, Truth & Life People often start reading the Farewell Discourse here, but this section runs straight on from chapter 13. Starting here misses those opening themes about glory and loving each other, because Jesus is going away…
Letters to London - Preface and acknowledgements
Letters to London - Preface and acknowledgements
by SPCK - Stephen J.Plant and Toni Burrowes-Cromwell
Preface and acknowledgements Though Dietrich Bonhoeffer is one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, most of his fame came posthumously. When Ernst Cromwell met him in late 1934 orearly 1935 Bonhoeffer was 29 years old and relatively unknown…
How God Became King - 3 The Inadequate Answers
How God Became King - 3 The Inadequate Answers
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Inadequate Answers So what have the churches normally done with the ‘middle bits’, with the ‘body’ inside the ‘cloak’? I have on occasion challenged groups of clergy and laity to tell me what they or their congregations might say if asked what ‘all that stuff in the middle’ w…
The Minister as Entrepreneur - Introduction: Why ‘entrepreneur’?
The Minister as Entrepreneur - Introduction: Why ‘entrepreneur’?
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Introduction: Why ‘entrepreneur’? I am a Christian minister. I am also an entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur has rarely made me any money and in the context of this book, that is precisely the point. Here I shall instead be using the term ‘entrepreneur’ to refer to a way of bein…
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - LAZARUS, COME OUT!