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Tree rings
Tree rings
by Heather Stanley
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
God cares for our insides too
God cares for our insides too
by Andy Lindley
A sculpture, beautiful on one side, but rough and unfinished on the rear. A reminder that in our celebrity adoring society humans care about the face we present one another, and not the beauty within. God, however, is concerned for our whole being, from the moment of our creati…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 20 From Event to Meaning
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 20 From Event to Meaning
by SPCK - N T Wright
From Event to Meaning (i) Event and Intention History, then, is real knowledge, of a particular sort. It is arrived at, like all knowledge, by the spiral of epistemology, in which the story-telling human community launches enquiries, forms provisional judgments about which storie…
Simply Jesus - A very odd sort of king
Simply Jesus - A very odd sort of king
by SPCK - N T Wright
A very odd sort of king ‘As Jesus was going along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. When he came to the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began to celebrate and praise God at the tops of their voices’ (Luke 19.36 –37). The crowd went wild…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - True and False Wisdom
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - True and False Wisdom
by SPCK - N T Wright
1 THE WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT TRUE AND FALSE WISDOM James 3: 13-18 It all began with a wrong diagnosis. I came upon the obituary of a famous actress in the newspaper just the other day. She wasn’t particularly old – in her early 70s, quite young these days. Her doctor hadn’t seen th…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Prayer in Secret
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Prayer in Secret
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 1 NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING ON PRAYER THE TEACHING OF JESUS PRAYER IN SECRET Matthew 6: 5-6 Once, when living in the Middle East, I went out for a walk in the afternoon. On my way home, feeling slightly hungry, I bought a bar of chocolate at a wayside stall. I got back home, we…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 23 THEOLOGY, AUTHORITY AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 23 THEOLOGY, AUTHORITY AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
by SPCK - N T Wright
THEOLOGY, AUTHORITY AND THE NEW TESTAMENT It should be clear by now that the task of reading the New Testament can never be a matter of ‘purely literary’ or ‘purely historical’ study, as though either of these could be removed from wider considerations of culture, worldviews, and…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 29 The Sources
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 29 The Sources
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Sources The sources which are particularly relevant for our purposes are those which reflect the situation in Palestine before the two great rebellions of ad 66–70 and 132–5, and particularly before the first of these…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 22 Historical Study of First-Century Religious Movements
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 22 Historical Study of First-Century Religious Movements
by SPCK - N T Wright
Historical Study of First-Century Religious Movements The main focus of this project is nothing more nor less than the history of certain first-century religious movements. That description is, I think, as little likely to mislead as any other catch-all heading…
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