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Hebrews for Everyone - The Practical Life of God's People
Hebrews for Everyone - The Practical Life of God's People
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Practical Life of God’s People Hebrews 13.1-8 ‘Sex, power, money, suffering. Tomorrow morning’s newspaper will be full of it; it’s what sells, it’s what some people think makes the world go round. Meanwhile, you can look through the newspaper from end to end for a mention of …
Luke for Everyone - Jesus and the Pharisee
Luke for Everyone - Jesus and the Pharisee
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus and the Pharisee Luke 14.1-11 Luke’s gospel has more meal-time scenes than all the others. If his vision of the Christian life, from one point of view, is a journey, from another point of view it’s a party. Several stories end with a festive meal – like, for instance, the p…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 4 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 4 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 4 1 Kings 18.20–21 [22–29] 30–39 Galatians 1.1–12 Luke 7.1–10 Elijah calls for fire, but the larger story is about rain. Drought has plagued the land. King Ahab is cross with Elijah, blaming the messenger for the message. Elijah, fresh from his triumph in restoring a boy t…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Last Sunday After Trinity Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Last Sunday After Trinity Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Last Sunday After Trinity Joel 2.23–end 2 Timothy 4.6–8, 16–18 Luke 18.9–14 The harvest and the law court are the lenses through which the prophet gazes, wide-eyed, into God’s future. Rain in abundance – easy to forget, in northern Europe, what a relief that would be in the M…
Luke for Everyone - The Calling of Zacchaeus
Luke for Everyone - The Calling of Zacchaeus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Calling of Zacchaeus Luke 19.1-10 Sunday schools love Zacchaeus. At least, they love to act out his story and sing about him. The little man who climbs up a tree to see Jesus provides one of the most vivid short stories in the whole Bible. Children can identify with Zacchaeus…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Kindle
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Kindle
by SPCK - N T Wright
Version ebook: Kindle 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 lively and accessible…
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