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The Jewish Trial
The Jewish Trial
by Dave Hopwood
Slaughter of the Innocent Bible Ref: Matthew 26 -27; Mark 14 -15; Luke 22-23; John 18-19 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to r…
Trinity
Trinity
by Andy Lindley
The father points to the son, and the son the spirit, and the spirit the father.... John 14:10 I am in the Father, and the Father is in me.THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights rese…
How God Became King - 4b Prequel and Sequel
How God Became King - 4b Prequel and Sequel
by SPCK - N T Wright
Prequel and Sequel Getting to the Heart of the Gospels In the year 1900, a book was published that changed the imagination of America. Its creator, L.Frank Baum, had stumbled into writing fantasy fiction some years before, mostly to while away time spent on the road as a travelli…
How God Became King - 10g Kingdom, Cross, Resurrection and Ascension
How God Became King - 10g Kingdom, Cross, Resurrection and Ascension
by SPCK - N T Wright
Kingdom, Cross, Resurrection and Ascension A word, in conclusion, about the immediate sequel. I have written extensively about the resurrection elsewhere (The Resurrection of the Son of God, Surprised by Hope) and a fair amount about the Ascension too (in addition to the above, s…
Great Christian Thinkers - 9 Eusebius of Caesarea
Great Christian Thinkers - 9 Eusebius of Caesarea
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
Eusebius of Caesarea In the history of early Christianity, there is a fundamental distinction between the first three centuries and those that followed the Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Ecumenical Council… Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI
Psalms for Everyone - Love Covers a Multitude of Sins
Psalms for Everyone - Love Covers a Multitude of Sins
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Love Covers a Multitude of Sins Psalm 32 Yesterday a federal court found six police officers guilty of shooting six citizens in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. My wife and I were reflecting about how the rest of us can’t simply dissociate ourselves from an event such as the s…
Mark for Everyone - David’s Son and the Widow’s Mite
Mark for Everyone - David’s Son and the Widow’s Mite
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 12.35–44 David’s Son and the Widow’s Mite... ...The final scene in the Temple courtyards takes us to a dense and difficult riddle which Jesus himself puts to his hearers (and which they cannot answer), and to a small but striking incident by the Temple trea…
Mark for Everyone - Jesus' Baptism
Mark for Everyone - Jesus' Baptism
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 1.9–13 Jesus’ Baptism... ...A famous movie-maker had a huge legal wrangle with his long- time mentor and guide. The younger man simply couldn’t handle criticism, and ended up rejecting the person who had helped him so much. When it was all over, a close fri…
The Women's Bible Commentary - My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man and I Am a Smooth Man
The Women's Bible Commentary - My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man and I Am a Smooth Man
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man and I Am a Smooth Man The ancestor hero of Israel, Jacob, father of the Israelites, is smooth, whereas the founding father of the neighboring, related, Semitic-speaking people, the Edomites, is hairy. Particular cultural messages are encoded in such…
The Women's Bible Commentary - A Series of Accusations
The Women's Bible Commentary - A Series of Accusations
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
A Series of Accusations That it is the elite men of Jerusalem who are the actual targets of Isaiah’s criticism becomes clear in the most explicit of the prophet’s accusations, a series of “woe” oracles detailing such atrocities as greedy accumulation of real estate at others’ exp…
LENT MEDITATION 1 - Pray, without ceasing pray,
LENT MEDITATION 1 - Pray, without ceasing pray,
by Andrew Pratt
LENT MEDITATION 1 Based on a Hymn by Charles Wesley -' Pray, without ceasing pray,' From the book 'Inextinguishable Blaze' also by Andrew Pratt - Click Here Extract: One of my favourite times of year is Lent. Don't get me wrong. I'm not one who gives up a lot in Lent. I was tak…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year B