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Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 2 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 2 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 2 Jeremiah 17.5–10 1 Corinthians 15.12–20 Luke 6.17–26 Blessings and woes: the upside-down world of the gospel, addressing, as Jeremiah had done, the heart’s self-deceptions, and allowing YHWH to test the mind and search the heart. The woes read like a list of contemporary…
3 Cheated Hearts
3 Cheated Hearts
by Kate Abbott
Imaginative account based on Genesis 29 - Lectionary Proper 12 year A 2 voice dialogue of Jacob and Leah telling their experience of becoming husband and wife. included are 3 pages : Page 1 - as in preview, account in full colour Page 2 - low ink version of page 1 Page …
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Did Jesus Really Mean It?
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Did Jesus Really Mean It?
by BRF - Dick France
Did Jesus Really Mean It? As in 7:17 and in chapter 4 a startling pronouncement is followed by the disciples asking Jesus to explain it. Surely he could not really want to sweep away the whole possibility of divorce (which Moses apparently allowed) at one go? So what did he mean?…
How God Became King - 1b The Empty Cloak: The Puzzle of a Lifetime
How God Became King - 1b The Empty Cloak: The Puzzle of a Lifetime
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Empty Cloak: The Puzzle of a Lifetime Come forward about fifteen years from that early experience. In my late twenties, out of the blue, I was asked to give a Bible exposition to the student Christian Union at Cambridge…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 6b Recovering moral agency in a global neighbourhood
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 6b Recovering moral agency in a global neighbourhood
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Recovering moral agency in a global neighbourhood Contemporary globalization links people and places thousands of miles apart in a myriad daily exchanges of goods, including food, drink, clothing and energy resources. The governance of these spatially distant exchange relationshi…
embodying mark - 4 Following the Shepherd
embodying mark - 4 Following the Shepherd
by SPCK - meda a a stamper
4 Following the Shepherd As in the last chapter, so also here Mark begins a story, interrupts it with another, and then comes round to the first story again. The passage we are exploring now follows on from Jesus’ sending of the disciples two by two in 6.7–13 to participate in hi…
journeying with John - 4 Passion and Holy Week
journeying with John - 4 Passion and Holy Week
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
4 Passion and Holy Week Each of the Gospels brings its portrayal of Jesus to a climax with his death. Although the themes are different in each Gospel, it is important to pay close attention to the themes that come to the fore in the crucifixion accounts, since they tell us somet…
Great Christian Thinkers - 52 William of Saint-Thierry
Great Christian Thinkers - 52 William of Saint-Thierry
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
William of Saint-Thierry The biographer of Bernard of Clairveaux, and a friend who esteemed him, was William of Saint-Thierry, on whom I reflect in this chapter… Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI
The Monastery Of The Heart - 7 Retreat and Reflection
The Monastery Of The Heart - 7 Retreat and Reflection
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Retreat and Reflection “The life of a monastic ought to be a continuous Lent.” There is a time in every life when the very act of looking back and taking stock becomes essential to going forward… Taken from The Monastery Of The Heart by Joan Chittister
The Monastery Of The Heart - 6 Prayerful Reading