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GOD's rich Pattern - GOD's rich pattern
GOD's rich Pattern - GOD's rich pattern
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
GOD’s rich pattern I write this book from the starting point of having experienced a spiritual breakdown. I’m a fully accredited Methodist Local Preacher with almost fourteen years experience of preaching. By some people’s standards that might be classed as minimal, but my callin…
GOD's rich Pattern - Coming out of the darkness
GOD's rich Pattern - Coming out of the darkness
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
Coming out of the darkness Blindness makes you draw on inner resources and get in touch with the world around you in a different way. Sound is all important. Music can be a wonderful comforter, enabling one to get on a higher spiritual plane. My first introduction to classical mu…
The Gospel According to twilight - Engaging the Powers
The Gospel According to twilight - Engaging the Powers
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
Engaging the Powers Chapter 8 The Reconciliation of All Things When I was in junior high, my brother and I spent many Saturday afternoons mesmerized by old vampire movies. White-knuckled, we watched as the handsome vampire hunter descended the staircase into the crypt, wooden sta…
friends, FOES and families - Betrayed by a word, betrayed with a kiss: Judas and Jesus
friends, FOES and families - Betrayed by a word, betrayed with a kiss: Judas and Jesus
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Betrayed by a word, betrayed with a kiss: Judas and Jesus Matthew 26, 27 God our Judge, none of us sees clearly the consequences of our actions: when we know we’ve made a wrong decision, give us strength to seek reconciliation...
friends, FOES and families - Woe to you, you hypocrites: Philemon's reply
friends, FOES and families - Woe to you, you hypocrites: Philemon's reply
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Woe to you, hypocrites: Philemon’s reply Philemon Jesus, it is our hypocrisy you most deplore. May I never be scornful of others, or shut the door of the Kingdom in another person’s face. (cf. Matthew 23.13)...
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Introduction
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
INTRODUCTION I worked for some years as a member of a team of nine. Every month we used to meet for the best part of a day and slog our way through all kinds of issues – big questions of policy, sensitive details about individual people, routine (but important) matters of adminis…
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
The Open Gate - Thanksgiving
by SPCK - David Adam
Thanksgiving The psalmist says, ‘Come into his gates with thanksgiving, enter his courts with praise.’ One of the easiest ways to seek God is to think and thank; literally to count your blessings, to see the world as His creation, to see your life, and your eternal life, as in Hi…
The Open Gate - Dedication
The Open Gate - Dedication
by SPCK - David Adam
Dedication Not only is God forever giving us gifts, He is giving us Himself. In fact it is because He gives us Himself, that His gifts are available to us. God is present in our lives and the more we open ourselves to Him, the more His gifts are able to flow into us and through u…
The Open Gate - Confession - Prayers 1&2
The Open Gate - Confession - Prayers 1&2
by SPCK - David Adam
Confession We come to you, Lord, for you alone can heal and restore us. We are not able to heal ourselves, We are not able to forgive ourselves, We are not able to restore ourselves, We are not able to sanctify ourselves, We are not able to satisfy ourselves...
Simply Jesus - The Campaign Starts here
Simply Jesus - The Campaign Starts here
by SPCK - N T Wright
The campaign starts here Keep these spectacles on, then, as we come back to Jesus and to what he was saying about God – about Israel’s God. Jesus was going about declaring, after the manner of someone issuing a public proclamation, that Israel’s God was at last becoming king. ‘Th…
Simply Jesus - God's in charge now
Simply Jesus - God's in charge now
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s in charge now The reason there were crowds with Jesus that day as he rode into Jerusalem is that there were always crowds around Jesus, from the beginning. He attracted them. The first thing most people knew about Jesus was that when he arrived in the village there was a pa…
A Bit Like Jesus - The parable of the prodigal, his brother and their compassionate Father