John The People's Commentary - Destroy This Temple
John The People's Commentary - Destroy This Temple
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Destroy This Temple It is not only in his placing of the temple incident at the start of Jesus’ ministry that John differs from the other gospels. He also has this story concerning a saying of Jesus about the destruction of the temple…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Dividing the Kingdom
The Women's Bible Commentary - Dividing the Kingdom
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Dividing the Kingdom THE WOMEN’S BIBLE COMMENTARY (1 Kings 12-15) From the death of Solomon at the end of 1 Kings 11 until the fall of the northern kingdom in 2 Kings 17, the narrative generally alternates between accounts of the kingdom of Judah and the kingdom of Israel. The co…
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Do You Want to be Healed?
John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Do You Want to be Healed?
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Do You Want to be Healed? This new chapter begins with the mention of ‘a feast of the Jews’ (5:1). Various Jewish feasts provide the backdrop for the next chapters: we have already seen one Passover in 2:13, and the next Passover happens in 6:4. Then the feast of Tabernacles is t…
The Vine Sample
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The Vine Fully scripted local arrangement services for every Sunday - available here. Is your church and circuit facing a rising number of local arrangements, a shortage of preachers or a sense that your Sunday worship is missing something? The Vine resources are weekly local arr…
Eco Lectionary July
Eco Lectionary July
by Keynsham Methodist Church Eco Group
ECO-HINTS FROM THE LECTIONARY July 2011 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time—3 July 2011 Zechariah 9: 9-12 Psalm 145: 8-14 (H&P 884) Romans 7: 15-25a Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 In Romans 7, Paul says “I do not understand what I do.” But we ought to be convinced that our actions (and it is …
Eco Lectionary notes year A 2 before Lent
Eco Lectionary notes year A 2 before Lent
by Keynsham Methodist Church Eco Group
Celebrating the Environment in Springtime Second Sunday before Lent (Creation Sunday) Year A Genesis 1: 1 – 2: 3 Psalm 136: 1-9, 23-26 Romans 8: 18-25 Matthew 6: 25-34 Genesis 1: 1 - 2: 3: This creation story is a long reading. It could be presented by two voices—one being the na…
Eco Lectionary August
Eco Lectionary August
by Keynsham Methodist Church Eco Group
ECO-HINTS FROM THE LECTIONARY August 2011 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time—7 August 2011 I Kings 19: 1-8 Psalm 85: 8-13 Romans 10: 5-15 Matthew 14: 22-33 Elijah shows us just how important decent food is to us. Our intercessions today might consider the imbalance of food production…
Eco Lectionary April
Eco Lectionary April
by Keynsham Methodist Church Eco Group
ECO-HINTS FROM THE LECTIONARY April 2011 Fourth Sunday in Lent— 3 April 2011 I Samuel 16: 1-13 Psalm 23 (H&P 842) Ephesians 5: 8-14 John 9: 1-41 Mothering Sunday Exodus 2: 1-10 Psalm 34: 11-20 (H&P 847) II Corinthians 1: 3-7 Luke 2: 33-35 Paul uses a metaphor of ‘light and dark’…
Eco Lectionary March