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Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Lent
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Lent
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
5 Lent Exploring the text The Lectionary provides us with slim pickings from Matthew during Lent, since during Lent most of the Gospel readings are from John. This gives us time, therefore, to reflect more deeply on the story of Jesus’ temptation in Matthew...
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Great Commission
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Great Commission
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Great Commission Matthew 28.16-20 You sometimes wonder, when listening to some of the great classical composers, whether they really know how to bring a piece to an end. One of the most notorious is Beethoven. There are times when, at the end of a symphony, you think you’re j…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within Contemporary Culture
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within Contemporary Culture
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture within Contemporary Culture Scripture in Today’s World: Five Areas The Bible doesn’t just live within the church, because the church (if it is true to its own nature and vocation) is always open to God’s world. Our contemporary culture impinges on the questions that are…
Hymn: The troubles of the age
Hymn: The troubles of the age
by Michael Docker
The troubles of the age, from fear to endless war, As wealth flows to the rich While walls surround the poor, Are by God's power Promised to be Destroyed by He Whose love is sure. The landscapes of the mind, from lower thoughts to high ; From cold indifference to every hurt we cr…
Hymn: Caught between the world and heaven
Hymn: Caught between the world and heaven
by Michael Docker
Caught between the world and heaven We seek God's face, Looking down yet upward driven; We seek God's face; Always facing daily dangers, Never far from dreams of angels; Trusting that God's truth will change us, Ours is God's grace. Taught of Christ who shared our sorrow, We seek…
The Lion's World - 3 - Not a tame lion
The Lion's World - 3 - Not a tame lion
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Not a tame lion The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe carefully prepares the way for Aslan’s appearance. When in Chapter 7 Mr Beaver confides ‘in a low whisper’ that ‘They say Aslan is on the move’ (p. 141), we are given a glimpse of what is instantly evoked by the name for the ch…
The Lord and His Prayer - Give Us This Day
The Lord and His Prayer - Give Us This Day
by SPCK - N T Wright
Give Us This Day CHAPTER THREE The danger with the prayer for bread is that we get there too soon. We come to prayer, aware of urgent needs, or at least wants. It’s tempting to race through the Lord’s Prayer, as far as ‘on earth as it is in heaven’, so that we can then take a dee…
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A) Reflection accompanying images “Autumn leaves in abandoned steel sink” A pile of autumn leaves in the bottom of a kitchen sink is a profoundly incongruous and unex…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 23 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 23 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Ordinary Time - Proper 23 Exodus 32.1–14 Philippians 4.1–9 Matthew 22.1–14 The party was ready, the guests were on the way, but somehow they got distracted. Today’s gospel fits Exodus 32 like a glove, forming a combined warning. Readers of Exodus perceive the golden calf incident…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday Before Advent Daniel 12.1-3. Hebrews 10.11-25 Mark 13.1-8 All of today’s readings are set against the background of a disintegrating world, and all see that as something joyful. Daniel and Mark seem to be talking about the future, though there is no indication a…
Revelation bible study guide - New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem
Revelation bible study guide - New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem
by SPCK - N T Wright
New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem Revelation 21:1-21 There are some moments in life when we say to ourselves, “Everything is going to be different now. This is entirely new. This is a whole new world opening up.”...
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Inheritance and the Spirit
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Inheritance and the Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PRAYERS OF PAUL THE INHERITANCE AND THE SPIRIT Ephesians 1: 11-14 Not far from where I was born there is an ancient castle. It stands imposingly, high above the banks of a river, defying anyone to attack it. These days, the likely attacks come …
Acts for Everyone part 1 - When, What and How?
Acts for Everyone part 1 - When, What and How?
by SPCK - N T Wright
When, What and How? Acts 1.6-8 ‘Are we nearly there yet?’ Any parent who has been on a car journey with small children will know the question – and the tone of voice in which it’s usually asked. Sometimes the child is so eager (or so bored), so quickly, that the question gets ask…
Meditation/Monologue: The New Jerusalem