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The Living God - Creation and science
The Living God - Creation and science
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Creator of heaven and earth 4 Creation and science Christianity understands the universe to be a created reality that is distinct from God yet reveals God’s fingerprints at point after point. There is an obvious spiritual lesson here: to study God’s creation is to catch glimpses …
The Living God - Mystery or muddle? The Trinity
The Living God - Mystery or muddle? The Trinity
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Mystery or muddle? The Trinity 5 When I was an atheist I regarded religious people as deluded and irrational souls who believed all sorts of ridiculous nonsense. If I had been asked to single out what I regarded as the most absurd aspect of Christian belief, I would have pointed …
The Living God - I believe in God the Father
The Living God - I believe in God the Father
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
A personal God: love and faithfulness 2 I believe in God the Father As we saw in the last chapter, the creeds help us put into words our trust in ‘the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation’ (2 Corinthians 1.3). One reason wh…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 18 Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - Proper 18 Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 18 Proverbs 22.1-2, 8-9, 22-23 James 2.1-10[11-13], 14-17 Mark 7.24-37 James’ comments about faith and works, part of his wide- ranging application of ‘the law of liberty’ (1.25, 2.12), have become famous because of their apparent contradiction of Paul’s insistence on just…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Sundays Before Advent The Second Sunday Before Advent Zephaniah 1.7, 12–18 1 Thessalonians 5.1–11 Matthew 25.14–30 The word ‘gospel’ means ‘good news’, and Christians believe that, in Jesus Christ, the whole world is offered the good news of God’…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - "My Servant" Israel
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - "My Servant" Israel
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Beginning in chapter 41, Israel is proffered a re-envisioned role as God’s servant. The relationship between Israel and the servant was obscured for decades by Bernhard Duhm’s theory of four servant songs in chapters 42, 49, 50, and 53, discontinuous with their contexts...
Numbers in the Bible Assembly Collection - The 10 Commandments Assembly
Numbers in the Bible Assembly Collection - The 10 Commandments Assembly
by Christian Assembly Team
The Ten Commandments (10) Bible ref: Exodus 20:1-17 and Exodus 32:7-8 Story One day a young boy asked his father to take him to the after school football game. When they arrived at the pitch they found it was just a field with no markings. The teacher had not yet arrived and so t…
Disciples stories
Disciples stories
by Avis Palmer
Disciples stories Chorus: Christ is the way, and the truth and the life, In every age the same. Listen and pray, in joy and in strife, All ways he speaks your name. Walking along by the lake shore Christ talked with fishermen. "Follow me now, come and explore", Each day he calls …
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Rise to the Challenge
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Rise to the Challenge
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book HOW TO LIVE RISE TO THE CHALLENGE By Stuart Kerner Suitable for Key Stage Three Aim To encourage spiritual discipline and effort, through the analogy of an athlete. Preparation and materials • You might like to dress in a tracksuit and t…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 14 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 14 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 14 John 6: 35, 41-51 Gaze on Jesus trying to reason with the crowd. See how very human this story is, how the crowd’s mood swings from worship and surprise to doubt and grumbling so quickly. Listen to the ripples of argument and the shocked whispers, for this man’s claims …
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 7 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 7 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 7 Mark 4: 35-41 Gaze on the sea in stormy weather. Hear the roar of the gale crashing against the sails at full stretch and the creak of the feeble wooden hull. Watch the disciples, bailing out in vain. The rain is lashing their faces, soaking their clothes. Hear the fear …
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Fourth Sunday before Advent Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Fourth Sunday before Advent Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fourth Sunday before Advent Mark 12: 28-34 Gaze on Jesus still in the Temple after hours of debate. Imagine him standing in the outer Temple courts where the doves are fluttering and goats bleating and penned ready for sacrifice. Five hundred years old, the Temple is the gold…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 12 Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 12 Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Lectionary reflections - Year A Ordinary Time Proper 12 1 Kings 3.5–12 Romans 8.26–39 Matthew 13.31–33, 44–52 With this piling up of images of the kingdom, I think you need first of all to listen to them and get an overall feel, and then to start trying to tease out some of the p…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 22 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 22 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 22 Genesis 2. 18-24 Hebrews 1.14; 2.5-12 Mark 10.2-16 It is very tempting to go straight for the second half of the passage from Mark’s Gospel set for today, and just speculate, if possible with some sentimentality, about what Jesus meant by ‘theirs is the Kingdom of Heave…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 25 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 25 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 25 Mark 10:46-52 Gaze on this scene: where are you in it? Are you one of those standing over the beggar, a look of disapproval on your face? It’s easy to become one of the pretentious bystanders eager to protect Jesus, pompously insisting they know what is right for him. ‘…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 18 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 18 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 18 Mark 7: 24-37 Gaze on the miles and miles Jesus covers in this story, wandering around the perimeter of Galilee, unwilling to return to where he is so well known. For there, some want him king, and some want him killed. Gaze on Jesus trying to remain unrecognized. Why w…
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