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Lent for Everyone Year A - Ash Wednesday
Lent for Everyone Year A - Ash Wednesday
by SPCK - N T Wright
ASH WEDNESDAY Matthew 1-2; focused on 1.18-25 We know very, very little about Joseph. Some legends make him an old man who died while Jesus was growing up, but we don’t know that for sure. We know he worked in the building trade, including what we call carpentry. We know he could…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Sunday: Week 3 in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Sunday: Week 3 in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent For Everyone WEEK 3: SUNDAY Psalm 95 A small boy I knew asked his grandfather, a retired priest, what ‘worship’ meant. The old man paused. He was over 80 years of age, he said; he had been a clergyman most of his life; and he still found it hard to say exactly what ‘worshi…
All peoples
All peoples
by Glen Scott Robson
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 34 The Agenda and Influence of the Pharisees
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 34 The Agenda and Influence of the Pharisees
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Agenda and Influence of the Pharisees cntd It is beyond a doubt that for quite some time before 63 bc there existed a pressure-group, known at least by its enemies as ‘Pharisees’. This group, not necessarily numerous, seems to have arisen around or after the time of the Macca…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature
The Women's Bible Commentary - Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature Genesis 34 is a tale of trickery involving female sexuality. Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, is raped by Shechem, the son of Hamor. The question of status that is addressed through trickery is not her status, however, but that of her b…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: First Week in Holy Week Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: First Week in Holy Week Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 1: SATURDAY... ...Fans of detective stories will know the drill. The main lines of the plot are reasonably clear, or so it appears. But somewhere on the way there will be a clue, a hint, a nudge, which the alert reader will pick up. The culprit …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: First Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: First Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 1: TUESDAY... You know the revolution has become serious when its leaders appoint an alternative government. The Western world watched and waited in the early months of 2011 as the Libyan rebels set up a kind of shadow body. There was still a ‘g…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 2 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 2 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 2: FRIDAY... ...So there we were on the boat, we didn’t know why he was in such a hurry that we should get away, and we didn’t know where he’d gone now or what he was expecting would happen next. It just seemed that there was quite a sense of ex…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 1: MONDAY... ...I am writing this not long after the worldwide commemorations that took place on the tenth anniversary of the terrible terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. In many countries around the globe, people…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Third Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Third Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3: TUESDAY... ...I once watched as an angry crowd burnt a Russian flag. Soviet military aircraft had shot down a Korean civilian plane on 1 September 1983, over the Pacific Ocean, on the suspicion that it had been spying. All on board were kille…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 WEDNESDAY... ...‘With these binoculars,’ said the salesman, taking me outside the shop, ‘you can tell the time on the church clock half a mile away. With these ones, though’ (his assistant brought him out another pair), ‘you can lip-read what …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 SUNDAY... ...Please read the whole Psalm. I know: it’s Sunday, you’re busy, nine verses is easier than forty-three. But please read it anyway. We live in an age of snippets: the British radio station Classic FM has got big, these last ten year…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 THURSDAY... ‘Sorry, you can’t have that seat. It’s already been booked.’ I was frustrated. It was one of my favourite train journeys, past some magnificent scenery. But the train was crowded, and there were hardly any seats on the side where o…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 TUESDAY... ...The building inspector hurried across the road to where the workmen had already got the wall a few feet up from the ground. ‘What are you doing?’ he asked, in some agitation. ‘We’re building this house!’ they replied. ‘Do you hav…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Day Year B