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Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 2.42–7 1 Peter 2.19–25 John 10.1–10 It is easy to telescope these verses from St John’s Gospel with verses 11–18. The second parable is also about sheep, and it is much clearer and more vivid, beginning as it does with Jesus’s statement, …
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Get Rid of the "Leaven"!
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Get Rid of the "Leaven"!
by SPCK - N T Wright
Get Rid of the “Leaven”! 1 Corinthians 5.6-13 If you’ve ever been in a Jewish home at Passover-time, you’ll know what Paul is talking about in verses 7 and 8. It’s a tradition that’s been kept for more than three thousand years, ever since the Jewish people came out of Egypt at t…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - On Remaining Unmarried
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - On Remaining Unmarried
by SPCK - N T Wright
On Remaining Unmarried 1 Corinthians 7.25-31 I remember a cartoon from my childhood days. A young man sits in an office. He is talking on the telephone, but standing beside him is a huge figure with a bristling moustache, staring at him angrily: obviously the boss. The young man …
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Signs for Believers and Unbelievers
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Signs for Believers and Unbelievers
by SPCK - N T Wright
Signs for Believers and Unbelievers 1 Corinthians 14.20-25 ‘We need to take an adult attitude to this . . .’ ‘Of course, if we are to approach the problem as adults . . .’ ‘Since we’re all adults here, perhaps I could say . . . ’ What do you think these people are talking about? …
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Timothy and Apollos
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Timothy and Apollos
by SPCK - N T Wright
Timothy and Apollos 1 Corinthians 16.10-14 I have a vivid memory of the first time I stood up in front of a group of people to make an announcement. It was at school, and I had been given responsibility for organizing something; and suddenly the room went quiet, everybody was loo…
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - How to Undo a Reform
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - How to Undo a Reform
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Undo a Reform 2 Kings 22:1-23:24 The first time I visited the United States, I came to give a week’s guest lectures in a seminary. People must have thought the lectures were OK, because they were then interested in offering me a job, but it wasn’t a moment when I could thi…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Christmas Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Christmas Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Christmas - Year A Jeremiah 31:7–14 Ephesians 1:3–14 John 1:1–18 . It is very difficult, in the middle of the school run or the supermarket shop, to remember that in us God is fulfilling the whole purpose of creation. It is even more difficult to look at the …
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - On Adultery and Oaths
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - On Adultery and Oaths
by SPCK - N T Wright
On Adultery and Oaths Matthew 5.27-37 As I was getting ready to write this section, an email arrived from an old friend in another country. His church, he said, was facing a question that troubles a great many churches in our day. What did Jesus really mean in his teaching about …
Journeying With Mark Year B - ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Journeying With Mark Year B - ABOUT THE AUTHORS
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
ABOUT THE AUTHORS James Woodward is a Canon of Windsor. He has written extensively in the area of pastoral and practical theology. His recent publications include Valuing Age: Pastoral Ministry with Older People (SPCK, 2008). He is particularly interested in how Christian discip…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 39:1, 4, 5
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 39:1, 4, 5
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 39:1, 4, 5 The tongue and heart, two organs at the centre of life. As this psalm shows, what goes on in the metaphorical heart eventually comes out through the tongue literally. Bridling the tongue and muzzling the mouth especially when faced with those who have it in for y…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 49:3-4
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 49:3-4
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 49:3-4 The heart is the seat of the will. It is also the mat for meditation where we muse imaginatively about how God is at work within us. Stories, songs, music and poetry all help us to meditate. You can lose yourself in a story and then deep in the drama suddenly see you…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 45:1