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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Let Me Tell You Another Story
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Let Me Tell You Another Story
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Let Me Tell You Another Story On the way out of chapel yesterday, we bumped into the provost (his position stands midway between being the principal and the vice-principal in U.K. terms). Before he became provost a few months ago, we had dinner with him and his wife, but we have …
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 27 Theology, Narrative and Authority
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 27 Theology, Narrative and Authority
by SPCK - N T Wright
Theology, Narrative and Authority I shall now argue that the conception of the task, the way of reading the New Testament, for which I have been arguing in the last three chapters, enables us to do what pre-modern Christian readers assumed they could do without difficulty, and wh…
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 204
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 204
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Drink Is a Brawler
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Drink Is a Brawler
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Drink Is a Brawler A friend who is a recovering alcoholic sometimes comments with dark humour on the process whereby drinking ruins people’s lives. It all but ruined his life, and it has ruined the lives of people he knows…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Enjoy Your Life Mindful of Your Creator
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Enjoy Your Life Mindful of Your Creator
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Enjoy Your Life Mindful of Your Creator I remember the first time I heard Ray Charles perform. Having been blind for many years, he had to be guided toward the piano, but he needed much more help than his blindness alone would have required…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - How to Live as Exiles in the Empire
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - How to Live as Exiles in the Empire
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
How to Live as Exiles in the Empire Having asserted the identity of the community with images that distinguish Israel from other nations, the author recalls that identity with the phrase “aliens and exiles,”…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - For Lenten Thought
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - For Lenten Thought
by SPCK - John Goldingay
For Lenten Thought It’s the third week in Lent, and we have the third of our Lent Study Groups this evening. The group is studying the Psalms, and I’ve been excited at the way people have been finding this a means of discovering new resources for their praying, as they have been …
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Have Not Found A Woman
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Have Not Found A Woman
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Have Not Found A Woman I just had a message from a young friend who will be in town next week and wants to come to see us. It’s only a few months since she emailed to tell us that she had maybe found the man of her dreams, a man whose instincts about Christian ministry match he…
Isaiah for everyone - Three Ways a Prophet Speaks
Isaiah for everyone - Three Ways a Prophet Speaks
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Three Ways a Prophet Speaks It’s Pentecost Sunday. I came home from church with some mixed feelings. There were fewer people in church than usual (it happens also to be a holiday weekend), but the day had a sense of celebration, including red balloons flying from the pews. People…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Yahweh Tests Minds
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Yahweh Tests Minds
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Yahweh Tests Minds A year after we came to California, one Sunday evening my son called to tell us that they had just had their first child on Monday morning in London. When Monday morning came in California, I rushed to book an air ticket to go back to London for the next weeken…
Jeremiah for everyone - If You Can Find Anyone
Jeremiah for everyone - If You Can Find Anyone
by SPCK - John Goldingay
If You Can Find Anyone Last night we watched a Woody Allen movie called Match Point about a man who commits adultery and murder but by pure luck gets away with it. The last shots of the movie make clear that he’ll always live with the burden of what he’s done…
Jeremiah for everyone - No Shrugging of God’s Shoulders