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The Meal Jesus Gave Us - New meal, new family - 4
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - New meal, new family - 4
by SPCK - Tom Wright
4 New meal, new family Part One HOW IT ALL BEGAN One more scene, and then we’ll stop play-acting. This, though, is where the story really starts, so we’re going to go into it a little more deeply, and take three chapters over it. We’re going back to Turkey, to a little town a hun…
Deep Church Rising - 4 Deep Calls to Deep
Deep Church Rising - 4 Deep Calls to Deep
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Deep Calls to Deep In an important book on scriptural approaches to knowledge, Biblical Knowing, Dru Johnson points out that the meaning of things is not there on the surface of reality to read off, raw facts that simply are self-evident…
Simply Good News - The Back Story
Simply Good News - The Back Story
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 part c The Back Story In particular, Paul was saying that they didn’t need the old gods any more. At this point he was presenting to the world an essentially Jewish message. The Jewish people cherished their ancient scriptures, in which, across many centuries, prophets, scribes…
Simply Good News - Creator, Judge, Lover
Simply Good News - Creator, Judge, Lover
by SPCK - N T Wright
Creator, Judge, Lover The first is that the one true God is the creator of the world. We have thought about this before, but I want to stress here that this really is good news. We are not cast adrift in an alien environment. There’s an old hymn that begins, ‘This is my Father’s …
The Second Intercessions Handbook - (20) FREEDOM
The Second Intercessions Handbook - (20) FREEDOM
by SPCK - John Pritchard
(20) FREEDOM The cry for freedom is universal. We hear it from ethnic groups, political minorities, subjugated peoples, oppressed women – and teenagers everywhere! It has a ready echo in our hearts and a deep resonance in the gospel where the promise is that, ‘if the Son shall se…
Many will fall at the sign of the child
Many will fall at the sign of the child
by Michael Docker
Many will fall at the sign of the child, Just as many will rise with him too: The words of the prophecy speak to our world Lord, inspire us with what we must do When the sign is opposed many thoughts will be known As the actions of some make them plain; The Saviour who died holds…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Praying With Mind As Well As Spirit
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Praying With Mind As Well As Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 1 NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING ON PRAYER THE TEACHING OF PAUL PRAYING WITH MIND AS WELL AS SPIRIT 1 Corinthians 14: 13-19 When you look at another person, what do you see? I don’t mean what shape, what colour, what size of person are you looking at; I mean, how do you think about …
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 24 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 24 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Ordinary Time - Proper 24 Exodus 33.12–23 1 Thessalonians 1.1–10 Matthew 22.15–22 The multiple echoes of Exodus 33 bounce around the New Testament. The first letter to the Thessalonians, held by many to be the first surviving Christian writing, offers another reminder that the go…
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