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Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - ipad/iphone/itouch - Sony
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - ipad/iphone/itouch - Sony
by SPCK - N T Wright
Version ebook: ipad/iphone/itouch - Sony The third in the massively successful Lent for Everyone series focuses on the Gospel of Mark, taking the reader through the designated Lectionary readings for every day of Lent and Easter. The New Testament passages are Tom Wright’s own li…
BigRead 2012 Housegroup material Week 5
BigRead 2012 Housegroup material Week 5
by BigBible
Week 5: Signposts Nibbles: Think back over the previous week. Did you ‘eat your chocolate’, e.g. tweet #Jesus120? How do you choose your direction, whether that be your route in life, or just getting from A to B? What ‘signs’ do you take that you’re on the right path? You might e…
BigRead 2012 Housegroup material Week 6
BigRead 2012 Housegroup material Week 6
by BigBible
Week 6: Finale? Nibbles: Think back over the previous week. Did you ‘eat your chocolate’, e.g. do something more slowly? Our society is very media literate, being able to ‘read’ storylines in books, films, etc. How do you ‘know’ when something is ‘finished’? What signals are give…
BigRead 2012 Housegroup material Week 7
BigRead 2012 Housegroup material Week 7
by BigBible
Week 7: Transformation Nibbles: Think back over the previous week. Did you ‘eat your chocolate’, e.g. read with a paper in one hand, the Bible in the other? Talk about what you’ve taken from this course, and start to think about what happens next. You may enjoy: http://youtu.be/B…
The Real Good News
The Real Good News
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Real Good News First, though, the inadequate and misleading accounts. Jesus’s resurrection does not mean that God somehow gave him a free pass on a personal basis, either because he was God’s son or for any other reason. The resurrection was not a special favour granted to Je…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - A First Monster
Lectionary Reflection Year C - A First Monster
by SPCK - N T Wright
A First Monster Revelation 13.1-10 He wasn’t acting alone. That was the conclusion the enquiry reached after a long investigation into the background of a strange murder in a city street. A foreign diplomat had been stabbed by a young man who ran away, but was caught. At his tria…
Revelation for Everyone - Final Judgement
Revelation for Everyone - Final Judgement
by SPCK - N T Wright
Final Judgement Revelation 20.7-15 John was not the first to suppose that after God’s great act of rescue and restoration there might be a further challenge, a final fling of the powers of evil against the already-redeemed people of God. In one of his favourite books of scripture…
Simply Good News - The Problem with Progress
Simply Good News - The Problem with Progress
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Problem with Progress Doctrine – isn’t that a strong, almost Christian word for a philosophical teaching? Yes, and that is exactly how progress is used. I spoke two chapters ago about the way the scientific discoveries and political innovations of the eighteenth century gave …
Simply Good News - Roman Good News
Simply Good News - Roman Good News
by SPCK - N T Wright
1, part c Roman Good News Let me turn now to another illustration. This one comes from the time and place where Jesus himself burst on the scene with his original good news, where Saint Paul went with the gospel: the world of the early Roman Empire. Come back with me to the first…
Simply Good News - Can we Trust the Gospels?
Simply Good News - Can we Trust the Gospels?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Can we Trust the Gospels? Let’s start with the obvious problem. Can we trust the Gospels? Answering that properly would take another whole book, and indeed I’ve written one or two on that topic. Despite a continuing chorus of scepticism, I and many other scholars who have studied…
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of Kingdom
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of Kingdom
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Different Kind of Kingdom Americans often tell me this. ‘We used to have kings,’ they say, ‘but we gave them up. You British understand these things; we don’t.’ This is a misunderstanding. The constitutional monarchy we have today in the United Kingdom is quite different from a…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Before and After Julius Caesar