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Quick Expert Guide in PA
Quick Expert Guide in PA
by DM Music
PA systems are designed primarily to help the congregation hear the spoken word - sermons, readings and testimonies - and music, both live and pre-recorded. Any PA system comprises key links in the ‘audio chain’ including - input, control, amplification and output. Like a chain, …
Quick Expert Guide to Audio Mixers
Quick Expert Guide to Audio Mixers
by DM Music
A mixing desk is the central nerve centre of any sound system. It’s essential job is to combine multiple input sound sources such as microphones, musical instruments, CD players etc and balance sound levels before sending the signal out to the speaker system. Most mixers also off…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Jerusalem’s Fall and Future
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Jerusalem’s Fall and Future
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Jerusalem’s Fall and Future The second round of judgment/promise begins with a specific and detailed oracle against Jerusalem. The imagery here is graphic; it describes the rulers’ oppressive behaviour as tearing off the skin and flesh, consuming the people (3:1–3)…
Isaiah for everyone - Good News for People Who Are Broken and Flickering
Isaiah for everyone - Good News for People Who Are Broken and Flickering
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Good News for People Who Are Broken and Flickering In a movie we recently watched called Stuck between Stations, the protagonists, a man and a woman, tell each other stories that explicate something of who they are. The man is a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan who has watched one of …
Isaiah for everyone - The People Who Know What’s Best
Isaiah for everyone - The People Who Know What’s Best
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The People Who Know What’s Best I have been a student or a professor in four seminaries. One thing that students and faculty have in common is that they often think they know more about how to run the seminary than its head or the board of governors. For most of this time I was e…
Isaiah for everyone - God the Creator of Evil
Isaiah for everyone - God the Creator of Evil
by SPCK - John Goldingay
God the Creator of Evil My wife used to lead a women’s Bible Study where some women who came for a while would commonly give the existence of evil as their reason or excuse for not believing in God and not staying. Her comment is that the existence of evil surely makes it more im…
The Second Intercessions Handbook - And also...
The Second Intercessions Handbook - And also...
by SPCK - John Pritchard
AND ALSO… These are just seed ideas which can be developed in different ways. (61) . . . JIGSAWS It’s possible to cut a large piece of card into jigsaw-type shapes (maybe six or eight pieces) with a clear middle piece that holds the others together. You then ask the group what th…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Messenger, Justice, and the Father’s Special Possession
The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Messenger, Justice, and the Father’s Special Possession
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Messenger, Justice, and the Father’s Special Possession The three dialogues of 2:17–4:3 begin with an accusation: “You have wearied YHWH with your words.” The image of a weary Deity captures the emotional escalation that occurs in these passages…
The Second Intercessions Handbook - Prayer Bubbles
The Second Intercessions Handbook - Prayer Bubbles
by SPCK - John Pritchard
(58) PRAYER BUBBLES There’s something lastingly attractive about the delicate bubbles produced by blowing through the circular instrument in the little tubes of liquid you can easily buy from toy shops. The bubbles come out with a rush; some burst immediately; others drift slowly…
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Hope
The Womens' Bible Commentary - Hope
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Hope Only shreds of hope appear in this book to counterpoise the deep river of devastation, grief, and despair that pervades most of it (3:14–18; 12:14–17; 16:14–15; 17:24–26; 22:2–4; 23:5–8; 24:4–7; 29:10–14; 42:7–12). In a collection of prose and poetry called “the little book …
The Womens' Bible Commentary - God as "Father"
The Womens' Bible Commentary - God as "Father"
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
God as “Father” In addition to bringing about people’s transformation from the status of minor children under guardianship of the law to that of mature heirs able to enjoy their inheritance (see above on 3:23–26), the coming of Christ has other consequences as well…
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - The BEGINNING of the BIRTHPANGS