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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Arrogance Goes before Shattering
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Arrogance Goes before Shattering
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Arrogance Goes before Shattering So I wrote a third draft and I now have responses from some other members of our church council, and I must finalize and send the message later today. In a sense it’s easy enough to think through the issues, but it may be harder to work out exactl…
The Act of Prayer Year C - First Sunday of Christmas - Year C
The Act of Prayer Year C - First Sunday of Christmas - Year C
by BRF - John Birch
The First Sunday of Christmas Year C Opening prayer A lot has happened in the last week. Some of us have spent time travelling to visit family and old friends. Gifts and greetings have been exchanged; carols have been sung to remind us of the birth of the Christ-child. Now a sens…
The Joy Of God's Word
The Joy Of God's Word
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn is based on the prayer of the Venerable Bede (673-735), teacher of the faith and translator of the Scriptures: “I pray you, good Jesus, that, as you have given me the grace to drink in with joy the word that gives knowledge of you, so, in your goodness, you will grant m…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 90:10, 12
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 90:10, 12
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 90:10, 12 This prayer also swims against the tide of our culture where youthfulness is coveted and ageing dreaded. Yet in spite of the worship of agelessness, where the vitamin pills are the sacraments of the day and the workout a religious ritual, we can never escape the i…
The Women's Bible Commentary - From the Household into the World
The Women's Bible Commentary - From the Household into the World
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
From the Household into the World Proverbs 1–9 culminates at a crossroads. The youth hears the voices of wisdom (9:3–6) and folly (9:16–17) beckoning him home for supper, each with initially identical invitations (“you who are naive, turn in here,” 9:4, 16). Wisdom and folly, it …
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 16 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 16 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 16 Luke 13: 10-17 Gaze on the woman, bent double from her youth. Slowly her shoulders curved. Left behind by sisters who married, she remained alone, ridiculed, and treated as an outcast. Children shouted ‘Hunchback!’ at her. She made friends with ants and caterpillars and…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Apocalyptic Visions
The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Apocalyptic Visions
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Apocalyptic Visions These chapters, which were written in the very different historical circumstances of the persecution of Jews by Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 167–164 BCE, present a correspondingly different critique of power…
The Act of Prayer Year C - Proper 6 - Year C
The Act of Prayer Year C - Proper 6 - Year C
by BRF - John Birch
Proper 6 Year C Opening prayer In the meeting of our lives, Lord, be the focus of all we are; in the singing of the hymns, the prayers that we shall make, the reading of your word and the preaching of the same. In the meeting of our lives, Lord, be the focus of all we are…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Acquire Truth Don't Sell It
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Acquire Truth Don't Sell It
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Acquire Truth Don't Sell It As we were walking toward our car after a concert, we passed a store front where a man was working a Heidelberg letterpress printing machine. It was odd because it was 10 p.m. and because I didn’t think anyone printed that way nowadays and because the …
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Be Realistic
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Be Realistic
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Be Realistic Reading the line in Ecclesiastes 4 about a triple cord not breaking quickly, I remembered an occasion in seminary when I gave our professor of preaching a hard time for using that line to support the idea that a sermon ought to have three points…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Exhortation to Righteousness