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Angels ascending, visions of wonder
Angels ascending, visions of wonder
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Angels ascending, visions of wonder Proper 11 year A Genesis 28: 10-19a Angels ascending, visions of wonder, dreams bringing grace and offering hope; Jacob had rested, tired from the journey, holy his resting, now he could cope. Waking from slumber, now he could see it, hol…
Poem/Reflection: Amos
Poem/Reflection: Amos
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Reflection: Amos Was he a professional prophet? No, he wasn’t. Was he the son of a prophet? No. he wasn’t. Did he earn money from preaching? No, he didn’t. Amos had been a shepherd. Amos had worked as a farmer Amos had been called from the fields and sent out into other fiel…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:111-112
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:111-112
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 119:111, 112 The word of God comes to us in several ways. Supremely in Jesus who was ‘the Word made flesh’ (cf. John 1.14). Without the Bible Jesus is a contentless word. It is Scripture that gives substance and meaning to his life, death and resurrection. Jesus’ own atti…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Visions of Destruction
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Visions of Destruction
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Visions of Destruction The progression of Amos’s visions (in 7:1–9:11) serves to communicate to Amos, as well as to his audience, that judgment on the people is inevitable and that God has attempted to act mercifully in the past, forgiving and ceasing to destroy…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Status Crisis and the Cross
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Status Crisis and the Cross
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Status Crisis and the Cross The status problems hinted at in chapters 1–7 are presented in chapters 10–13 as a full-blown crisis. Paul has been shamed and humiliated by some rivals he calls “super-apostles,” itinerant ministers who have captured the minds and hearts of his Corint…
How God Became King - 9d Kingdom, Cross and God part 2
How God Became King - 9d Kingdom, Cross and God part 2
by SPCK - N T Wright
Kingdom, Cross and God part 2 This is how it works. First, the vision. Daniel has a dream of four monsters trampling the earth in great wickedness and violence. Then a court scene develops in heaven: ‘Thrones were set in place, and an Ancient One took his throne’ (7.9)…
THE LATER NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS AND SCRIPTURE - 5 Revelation and Scripture
THE LATER NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS AND SCRIPTURE - 5 Revelation and Scripture
by SPCK-Steve Moyise
The book of Revelation is like no other book in the New Testament. It begins like a letter and ends like a letter but instead of the usual body of a letter, it consists almost entirely of visions and oracles.
Reflection: Visionary
Reflection: Visionary
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/dialogue/drama: Visionary (Could be read as a dialogue, or monologue) If your country was being over-run by an invading force and you were under siege in your own city, would you tell your king that God was prepared to hand over the city to the enemy? Jeremiah did. If …
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday of Easter Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Third Sunday of Easter Acts 3.12-19 1 John 3.1-7 Luke 24.36-48 The ancient world knew all about ghosts, visions, apparitions, and spooks. Ancient literature has plenty of people being found alive after being supposed dead, plenty of spirits of the dead returning to haunt, spy…
Hope is built in present moments
Hope is built in present moments
by Andrew Pratt
Hope is built in present moments, times of visions, times of dreams, times when love transcends the present, long outlasting human schemes. Hope will open gates of promise, herald dawns of glorious light, help us live within this moment, lead us onward from the night. Verses 3-4 …
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Is Saul among the Prophets Too?
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Is Saul among the Prophets Too?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Is Saul among the Prophets, Too? 1 Samuel 10: 1- 16 For most of church history, visions and prophecies and miraculous healings have been uncommon events in the mainline churches, but during the time when I was teaching in England, they came to be more common once more, and we use…
Willows hung with harps are weeping
Willows hung with harps are weeping
by Andrew Pratt
Willows hung with harps are weeping like the sorrow of our song, deep reflection of the mourning for the hurt of human wrong. Hurt which seems to have no ending, still rings on from age to age, still our human hearts are bleeding, still our grief takes centre stage. Verses 3-4 fo…
Peter's Sermon
Peter's Sermon
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 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 read the linking…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Signs of the Judgment
The Women's Bible Commentary - Signs of the Judgment
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Signs of the Judgment The material in chapters 12–24 is an uneven mixture of dense allegories and sign actions interspersed with prose accounts of Israel’s history. The metaphorized women in chapters 16 and 23 will be the focus of our attention, but the women prophets in 13:17–23…
The Women's Bible Commentary - “Alas for You Who Heap Up What Is Not Your Own”
The Women's Bible Commentary - “Alas for You Who Heap Up What Is Not Your Own”
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
“Alas for You Who Heap Up What Is Not Your Own” This section includes five woe oracles against Babylon (2:6b; 2:9; 2:12; 2:15; 2:19), but it is not a continuation of the vision that God promised the prophet in 2:3…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Moses' Final Words and His Death
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Moses' Final Words and His Death
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Moses’ Final Words and His Death (Deuteronomy 32: 1- 34: 12) As noted in the introduction to this essay, the Deuteronomic redactors shaped the whole of their book as the last will and testament of Moses. After the discussion of law and covenant, redactors have appended materials …
Hymn: Visions of paradise: heaven disclosing