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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 183
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 183
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
Mere Apologetics - 8d Working the Angles: Applying the Case Studies
Mere Apologetics - 8d Working the Angles: Applying the Case Studies
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Working the Angles: Applying the Case Studies In the previous two sections of this chapter we have explored some themes relating to two classic questions of Christian apologetics and identified some components of answers to two important anxieties about faith. But apologetics is …
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 208
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 208
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Levirate Marriage
The Women's Bible Commentary - Levirate Marriage
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Levirate Marriage In numerous preindustrial societies, a male relative of a deceased man is expected to marry or to have sex with the dead man’s widow. Such relationships, called “levirate” from the Latin levir, “brother-in-law,” vary in form and purpose from culture to culture…
embodying mark - 3 Following the Healer
embodying mark - 3 Following the Healer
by SPCK - meda a a stamper
3 Following the Healer Hearing the healing in Mark The teacher on the boat of Mark 4 has crossed over to the other side. Beyond the stormy seas, he is confronted by the torment of human suffering in its various guises: the raging of a tortured demoniac, the desperation of the fat…
glimpses of glory - The Third Sunday of Epiphany - Year C
glimpses of glory - The Third Sunday of Epiphany - Year C
by SPCK - David Adam
The Third Sunday of Epiphany Lord as you have called us to share in your outreach of your love to the world, fill us with the power of your Spirit, that, in your strength and by your guidance, we may lead others to be aware of you, and live to your praise and glory, through Jesus…
Great Christian Thinkers - 68 St. Bridget of Sweden
Great Christian Thinkers - 68 St. Bridget of Sweden
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Bridget of Sweden On the eve of the Great Jubilee in anticipation of the Year 2000, the Venerable John Paul II proclaimed St. Bridget of Sweden co-patroness of the whole of Europe. I now present her, her message, and the reasons why - still today - this holy woman has much to…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 29 Spiritual Gifts and the Upbuilding of the Body
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 29 Spiritual Gifts and the Upbuilding of the Body
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Spiritual Gifts and the Upbuilding of the Body Paul includes two homilies (14:1-12, 13-25) in this section of the larger essay and displays the text of the first of the two. Taken from Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - The TEACHER is TAUGHT HEAVENLY THINGS
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - The TEACHER is TAUGHT HEAVENLY THINGS
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
The TEACHER is TAUGHT HEAVENLY THINGS After Jesus’ comparison of the Spirit with the wind, poor old Nicodemus has to ask for yet further explanation (3:9). As ‘a teacher of Israel’ (3:10), he should have known the old prophecies about God giving his people ‘a new heart and a new …
JOHN: The people's bible commentary - LIFTING UP the SON of MAN