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With My WholeHeart - Psalm 57:8
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 57:8
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 57:8 Whatever we fix on to in the end absorbs us, so much so that we become dependent on it. That dependency becomes a way of life, integrated into our being. It’s as if we were made to be dependent. ‘No man is an island’, and even those loners who seem so independent of ot…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Word of God and Scripture in the Apostolic Church
Scripture and the Authority of God - Word of God and Scripture in the Apostolic Church
by SPCK - N T Wright
“Word of God” and Scripture in the Apostolic Church Apostolic Preaching of ‘the Word’: the Jesus-Story Fulfils the (OT) Scripture-Story The earliest apostolic preaching was neither a standard Jewish message with Jesus added on at the end, nor a free-standing announcement of a new…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture From the Second to the Seventeenth Century
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture From the Second to the Seventeenth Century
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture from the Second to the Seventeenth Century Early Challenges (Marcion, the Gnostics, etc.) were Met with Response from Scripture, and (When Scripture Itself was Contested) with an Appeal to Early Tradition and Good Exegesis We must now compress a very long and complicate…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within the Christian-People,BC
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within the Christian-People,BC
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture within the Kingdom-People, BC ‘God’s Kingdom’, in Old Testament and Judaism, Affirms God’s Victory over Evil The question of God’s ‘kingdom’ or ‘kingship’ is raised, in the Old Testament and in subsequent Judaism, by the presence of radical evil within the good creation…
The Gospel According to twilight - Is Twilight Bad News for Girls?
The Gospel According to twilight - Is Twilight Bad News for Girls?
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
Is Twilight Bad News for Girls? Chapter Three First of all, we have to acknowledge that something about Bella resonates with girls around the world. At the time of this writing the Twilight series has been translated into more than forty languages. Even when readers dislike Bella…
The Gospel According to twilight - Born Again
The Gospel According to twilight - Born Again
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
Born Again Chapter 5 Vampire stories are all about forbidden fruit, which means they are about hunger, temptation, deceit, sin, and death. Twilight is thoroughly vampiric in this way. But as anyone who has read Genesis knows, sin doesn’t have the last word. Love wins the day. The…
The Gospel According to twilight - Golden Eyes and Granite Flesh
The Gospel According to twilight - Golden Eyes and Granite Flesh
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
Golden Eyes and Granite Flesh Chapter 6 For the first three-and-a-half novels of the Twilight series, Bella longs to become a vampire. She wants to stay young forever with Edward. She yearns to be part of the Good Family, the Cullens. And she craves freedom from the clumsiness, w…
The Gospel According to twilight - Those Who Must Be Obeyed
The Gospel According to twilight - Those Who Must Be Obeyed
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
Those Who Must Be Obeyed Chapter 7 The Volturi and the Corruption of Power The first time we read of the Cullens a mere handful of pages into Twilight, we encounter the language of the angelic. The Cullens are beautiful in the manner of angels in a Renaissance masterpiece. With t…
The Gospel According to twilight - I'm Only Half Of Me
The Gospel According to twilight - I'm Only Half Of Me
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
I’m Only Half of Me Chapter Two The Dread of Being Single in Twilight In Twilight, as we’ve seen, the basic unit of the Good Family is a man and woman paired for eternity. At the heart of the narrative universe of family life is the expectation that all “normal” people are with p…
The Gospel According to twilight - The Good Family
The Gospel According to twilight - The Good Family
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
The Good Family Chapter One Every great story lives in a narrative universe with its own internal logic. Readers quickly come to recognize the logic of the story world. In Tolkien’s Middle-earth, for example, hobbits are comfort-loving creatures of small stature who fear going on…
The Power of the Parable - The Challenge of Collaboration
The Power of the Parable - The Challenge of Collaboration
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
chapter 6 The Kingdom of God The Challenge of Collaboration Although he himself did not coin the term “paradigm shift,” it was The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,* by Thomas S. Kuhn, then professor of the history of science at the University of California, Berkeley, that mad…
The Power of the Parable - The Lure of Parabolic History
The Power of the Parable - The Lure of Parabolic History
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
The Lure of Parabolic History Caesar At The Rubicon We no longer know the exact course of the ancient Rubicon, let alone the exact spot where Julius Caesar crossed it. Yet, from then to now, “crossing the Rubicon” has been a cliché for passing the point of no return in an endeavo…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 24 May 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 24 May 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 24 MAY 1930 This has been a week of wonders. God is at work everywhere preparing the way for His work in Lanao. I shall tell you some of the wonders presently. But just at this moment you must hear more of this sacred evening. The day had been rich but strenuous, so I…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 22 April 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 22 April 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 22 APRIL 1930 The “experiment” is interesting, although I am not very successful, thus far. The idea of God slips out of my sight for I suppose two-thirds of every day, thus far. This morning I started out fresh, by finding a rich experience of God in the sunrise. The…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 July 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 July 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 9 JULY 1930 Never did I so feel the need of a silent typewriter as at this moment, for every stroke clashes with the marvelous silence of the hills tonight. I am still under the spell of that hush and of that sunset. In all my life I have never seen a sight so beautif…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 June 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 June 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 15 JUNE 1930 I walk out in the street full of Moros, and if my soul is as full of God as it sometimes is, I see what happens as I look into their eyes and pray for them. No man need try to persuade me that God does not reach them, for I see the thing happen, and now I…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 112:7-8
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 112:7-8
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 112:7-8 A sign of the heart established in God is that it does not shrink. Nor is it ‘afraid of any evil tidings’. The reason for this is that ‘unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darkness’ (v. 4). That light is none other than the mercy of God which rescues us fro…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 28:8