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Intercessions Years A, B and C - Proper 14 Year A
Intercessions Years A, B and C - Proper 14 Year A
by SPCK - Ian Black
Proper 14 Year A Give thanks to the Lord Call upon his name. Lord, it is you who comes when we cry out in storm-tossed moments. Reach out to your Church when sight of the strong wind brings fear… Open our ears to hear you say ‘take heart’…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Parable of the Yeast
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Parable of the Yeast
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Parable of the Yeast By teaching in parables, Jesus assumes Wisdom’s role. The third of seven parables gathered in chapter 13 presents a woman as a main character. Paralleling 13:31–32, the immediately preceding parable of the Mustard Seed…
Body - Chapter 8 - The body of Christ
Body - Chapter 8 - The body of Christ
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The body of Christ The fugue on the body, which we explored in the previous chapter, brings us at last to Paul’s central and key exploration of a body – the body of Christ. We are so familiar with this image that it is easy to overlook its significance in Paul and how it relates …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 29 (34) - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 29 (34) - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Proper 29 (34) - Year C - Christ the King – Sunday before Advent Service contents: Hymn: King of kings, majesty or Christ, our King before creation or Some king, who hangs as others taunt Prayer: Surprising God Reading: Jeremiah 23:1-6 Hymn: Light of the world, you stepped down i…
Body - Chapter 7 - Beautiful Bodies (part 2)
Body - Chapter 7 - Beautiful Bodies (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
Beautiful bodies? (part 2) Two knotty issues Before we return in the next chapter to look in more detail at what Paul had to say about the body of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12, there are two issues that we need to pause over briefly. One is sex; the other is the mortification of th…
Body - Chapter 7 - Beautiful Bodies?
Body - Chapter 7 - Beautiful Bodies?
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
Beautiful bodies? We are now in the position to return to the place from which we began and, I hope, to see it in new light and from a fresh perspective. A position that assumes that Paul is opposed to bodies, that merges body and flesh together as though they are a single word, …
Body - Chapter 6 - The "me" that is "me (part 2)"
Body - Chapter 6 - The "me" that is "me (part 2)"
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The “me” that is “me” (part 2) Setting your mind on… The final element of the ‘me-ness of me’ that we need to explore, before turning our attention back to the body in the final two chapters, is the mind. Within Western thought, particularly philosophical thought, the mind has be…
Body - Chapter 6 - The "me" that is "me"
Body - Chapter 6 - The "me" that is "me"
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The “me” that is “me” It is high time that we return to an issue that has been lurking behind this book’s reflections now for some time. If the argument made so far is correct that Paul does not use the word ‘soul’ in the way that Plato did; that, in his writings, the word refers…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 28 (33) - Year C
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Proper 28 (33) - Year C
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Full Service Proper 28 (33) - Year C Service contents: (Additional resources for Remembrance Sunday can be found elsewhere on the website and two hymns and a poem are added at the end of this order of service.) Hymn: Jesus,stand among us or God is here, as we his people or A hous…
Body - Chapter 5 - The life giving Spirit (part 2)
Body - Chapter 5 - The life giving Spirit (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The life giving Spirit (part 2) The difference between psuch? and pneuma As we saw above, in the Old Testament there is a considerable overlap between nephesh and rua.: both brought life to the body; both came from God; both could be described, in differing ways, as being the lif…
Body - Chapter 5 - The life-giving spirit
Body - Chapter 5 - The life-giving spirit
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
The life-giving Spirit By now it should be clear that, for Paul, the Spirit/spirit plays a vital role in his positive understanding of bodies. This may cause you to wonder whether we have come a very long way only to arrive back where we began…
Body - Chapter 4 - A spiritual body? (part 2)