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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The God Who Intervenes
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The God Who Intervenes
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The God Who Intervenes Genesis 11: 3- 7 I was talking to a young man training to be a counselor. The program involves undertaking a chaplaincy in a trauma unit and working with people with brain or spinal cord injuries as a result of a sporting accident, car crash, gunshot wound,…
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Stairway to Heaven
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Stairway to Heaven
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Stairway to Heaven Genesis 28:6-15 When I would occasionally remember a dream and report it, my wife would say that she didn’t dream. Really she knew she did, because everyone does; it’s one reason why we sleep. But we don’t usually remember our dreams, maybe partly because t…
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Sin of Sodom
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Sin of Sodom
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Sin of Sodom Genesis 19: 1-14 I have a number of friends and acquaintances who are attracted to members of the same sex or are in long-term, committed, quasi-marital or actually marital relationships with members of the same sex. I don’t take the view that same-sex relationsh…
Job for Everyone - The Silence of Friends
Job for Everyone - The Silence of Friends
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Silence of Friends Job 2: 9-13 The day my first wife died, we were planning to go to the beach, so I went on my own the next day. This may sound weird, but it seemed to make sense at the time, and when I got home I was glad I had gone, because there were twelve messages on th…
Job for Everyone - Why Are Times Not Kept by Shadday?
Job for Everyone - Why Are Times Not Kept by Shadday?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Why Are Times Not Kept By Shadday? Job 24: 1-25 Some time ago I used to follow a set of daily scriptural readings called Daily Light on the Daily Path that included verses on different topics for each morning and evening. The verses were printed on the main body of the page, and …
Job for Everyone - Will You Just Listen?
Job for Everyone - Will You Just Listen?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Will You Just Listen? Job 13: 1-28 This afternoon I was on the phone with a friend who had moved to another city because he believed he had a call to go and work in a tough area there. He had joined a tiny church and had started a coffee bar that might be a meeting place for peop…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Third Sunday of Epiphany Nehemiah 8.1–3, 5–6, 8–10 1 Corinthians 12.12–31a Luke 4.14–21 The book of Nehemiah is an exciting and inspiring story. It is written in the first person, and its narrative is vivid and action-packed. Nehemiah, one of the many Jews carried away into e…
The Pastoral Letters - God's Revealed Plan
The Pastoral Letters - God's Revealed Plan
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Revealed Plan Titus 1.1-4 ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ It’s the standard question children face from well-meaning adults. Often the answers are surprising. A ballet dancer. A gardener. This girl wants to run a bookshop. This boy wants to play the oboe. Sometim…
Revelation bible study guide - Praise to the Creator
Revelation bible study guide - Praise to the Creator
by SPCK - N T Wright
PRAISE TO THE CREATOR Revelation 4 Scientists and anthropologists have often asked themselves, “What is it that humans can do that computers can’t do?” The writer David Lodge wrote a powerful novel on this theme, entitled Thinks . . . The heroine eventually discovers the answer: …
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 4 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 4 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Ordinary Time Proper 4 Genesis 6.9–22; 7.24; 8.14–19 Romans 1.16–17; 3.22b–28 [29–31] Matthew 7.21–29 ‘These words of mine.’ No wonder they thought Jesus was claiming an authority of his own, superior to that of the scribes. They would never have…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Demoniacs
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Demoniacs
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Demoniacs Matthew 8.28-34 I was listening to some music last night that kept surprising me. It was a great symphony, with a wonderful tune that turned this way and that, sweeping us along, catching our emotions and lifting our spirits. Then, just when you thoug…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday of Epiphany Isaiah 62.1–5 1 Corinthians 12.1–11 John 2.1–11 Nuptial imagery rings through the Bible like a peal of wedding bells. The first two chapters of Genesis reach their climax in the creation of man and woman in God’s image; the last two chapters of Rev…
Luke for Everyone - The Twelve Sent Out and Feeding the Five Thousand
Luke for Everyone - The Twelve Sent Out and Feeding the Five Thousand
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Twelve Sent Out and Feeding the Five Thousand Luke 9.1-17 When a new business starts up, it’s often the dream of one person that makes it happen. But if the business succeeds, more people need to come on board. Not just to do the detailed work that the founder hasn’t got time…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - To God Be The Glory
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - To God Be The Glory
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PRAYERS OF PAUL TO GOD BE THE GLORY Romans 11: 33-36 I was taken yesterday to see the site of a new bridge across a river. We parked the car in a grassy wood and set off to walk. The trees were quite thick to begin with, and I couldn’t see the …
Psalms for Everyone - Answer to Prayer Phase Two
Psalms for Everyone - Answer to Prayer Phase Two
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Answer to Prayer Phase Two Psalm 30 In connection with Psalm 16, I have mentioned how a few months ago I met, fell in love with, and proposed to someone, then discovered I had prostate cancer and arranged to have surgery. We had a very moving prayer time in church, and I knew God…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - How Saul Lost Some Donkeys and Found More Than He Bargained For
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - How Saul Lost Some Donkeys and Found More Than He Bargained For
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How Saul Lost Some Donkeys and Found More than He Bargained For 1 Samuel 8: 21- 9: 27 A friend of mine begins his church ministry tomorrow, fifteen years after he first had a sense that he might be called to the ministry. Of course he has been involved in ministry in different se…
Exodus and Leviticus - Improving on Creation