Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and the subsequent Equality Act 2010 both define a disabled person as someone who ‘has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry o…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Standing up for justice
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Standing up for justice
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
3 Standing up for justice 2 Samuel 4.4, 9.1–11; Mark 10.46 –52 Purpose: to explore the idea of inclusion as a matter of justice, not charity; to look at self-worth, identity and dignity; to consider disabled people as contributors…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Knowing we're made in his image
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Knowing we're made in his image
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
1 Knowing we’re made in his image Genesis 1.26 –31; 1 John 3.2 Purpose: to explore what it means to be human, made in God’s image; to challenge prejudices about what is ‘normal’. Prayer Thank God for the Bible – his inspired message to us all – and for all that it can teach us of…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Annotated Suggestions for Further Reading
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Annotated Suggestions for Further Reading
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Annotated Suggestions for Further Reading CHAPTER 1: FOUR GOSPELS On gospel criticism Richard A. Burridge, What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography, SNTS Monograph Series 70 (Cambridge University Press, 1992; revised second edition, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Quoted on the Disability Wall
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Quoted on the Disability Wall
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Quoted on the Disability Wall Laurence Banks Laurence Banks is Deaf. He has worked with Go! Sign for over ten years and is currently employed as their part-time ministry director. He preaches and teaches around the UK and overseas and has recently completed a theology degree at t…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Experiencing God in togetherness
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Experiencing God in togetherness
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
4 Experiencing God in togetherness Genesis 2.18 –22; Psalm 68.5, 6; John 17.20 –23 Purpose: to explore God-given models of community; to consider the challenge of isolation and loneliness as a particular issue for disabled people…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Jerusalem - the lion's lair or robber's den?
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Jerusalem - the lion's lair or robber's den?
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Jerusalem – the lion’s lair or robbers’ den? The Temple, Mark 11—13 Mark’s gospel is like a symphony in three movements: we rushed through the first half in a flurry of activity, power and conflict, healings and exorcisms (1—8.26); the second movement was an interlude at a slower…
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer D
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer D
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
12 Eucharistic Prayer D Eucharistic Prayer D is something different, in every way far removed from Prayer C. It was specially written for Common Worship, drafted by Bishop James Jones of Liverpool in consultation with his children, though worked on and developed within the Liturg…
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer E
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer E
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
13 Eucharistic Prayer E Eucharistic Prayer E is another new prayer created for Common Worship, initially the work of Canon Jeremy Haselock. The intention was to produce a classic ‘Western’ Eucharistic Prayer, in the sense of one that has the epiclesis before the narrative of the …
Echoing the Word - Introduction
Echoing the Word - Introduction
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
Introduction There must be very few Christians who do not acknowledge the importance of the Bible in worship. At the very least they will read the Scriptures, often under the discipline of a lectionary that ensures they read a wide and balanced selection. They may also sing the S…
Transforming Preaching - The word of God
Transforming Preaching - The word of God
by SPCK - David Heywood
1 Why preach? The word of God Written words, spoken words Since the invention of the printing press over 500 years ago the printed word has been the world’s dominant form of communication. Once the privilege of a few, reading and writing have become a universal gateway to a world…
Transforming Preaching - A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation
Transforming Preaching - A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation
by SPCK - David Heywood
3 A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation If you want to bake a cake, you need to include certain basic ingredients. You can vary the amounts and there is a huge variety of other things you can add to make cakes of many different kinds. But without the basics, you don’t have a…
Transforming Preaching - Learning through reflection
Transforming Preaching - Learning through reflection
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event Preaching for learning If our ministry of preaching is to be effective we need to do at least two things: to understand the role of sermons in the context of the learning that is already taking place in our congregations through reflection; and to…
Transforming Preaching - Remembering
Transforming Preaching - Remembering
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event Remembering Since both listening and memory are elements in the way our minds work to take in, store and use information, remembering shares many characteristics with listening. Like listening, it is an active process, deeply affected by our value…
Transforming Preaching - Learning
Transforming Preaching - Learning
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event Learning We have looked at two of the specific ‘components’ of the learning process, listening and remembering. We have seen that listening is an active process; it requires a decision to pay attention to some new information or situation, whether…
journeying with mark yr B - Preface: What is this book about?