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A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…

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Messy Church 2 - Spring Festivals

by BRF - Lucy Moore

Spring festivals To cover some of the spring festivals, such as Mothering Sunday and Good Friday, and to follow the story of the end of Jesus’ life and the new beginning of Easter…

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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 124 10/07/16

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A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…

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MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - MARK’S GOOD NEWS— A RETROSPECTIVE

by BRF - Dick France

MARK’S GOOD NEWS— A RETROSPECTIVE Now that we have reached the end of Mark’s story, it is worth while to pause and ask what we have learned from it…

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Deep Church Rising - Preface

by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry

Preface Andrew This book is a reflection of the debates of an informal network of Christians in Greater London that regularly met in St Paul’s Church, Hammersmith, and King’s College, London, from 2006 to 2008…

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John The People's Commentary - Healing an Official's Son

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Healing an Official's Son After all the excitement in Samaria, Jesus finally returns to Galilee (4:43). Although the Galileans welcomed him, it was only because they had seen what he had done at the festival in Jerusalem (4:45)…

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John THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Show Us the Father

by BRF - Richard A. Burridge

Show Us the Father Thomas misunderstood Jesus’ claim to be ‘the way, the truth and the life’ as a physical way to God. Jesus took him deeper into the spiritual relationship between himself and his Father, so that to know Jesus is to know the Father (14:6–7)…

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Body - Chapter 4 - A spiritual body? (part 2)

by SPCK - Paula Gooder

A spiritual body? (part 2) Mortal bodies Where Paul’s language about bodies overlaps with his language of flesh is precisely when he is talking about bodies of the old creation. One of the important features of Paul’s theology is that he appears to be attempting to make a new and…

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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…

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THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 21 History and Narrative

by SPCK - N T Wright

History and Narrative The task of the historian is not simply to assemble little clumps of ‘facts’ and hope that somebody else will integrate them. The historian’s job is to show their interconnectedness, that is, how one thing follows from another, precisely by examining the ‘in…

Letters to London - 4 Bonhoeffer’s “classes” with Ernst

by SPCK - Stephen J.Plant and Toni Burrowes-Cromwell

Bonhoeffer’s “classes” with Ernst Among the most striking features of the way Bonhoeffer tackled preparing Ernst for confirmation is the extent to which it looks forward to his future interests more than it looks back to his former interests…

readings for weddings - 21 From A Marriage of True Minds

by SPCK - Mark Oakley

From A Marriage of True Minds [Virginia Woolf] said – and as though addressing herself rather than me [Bobo Mayer]: ‘What do you think is probably the happiest moment in one’s whole life?’…

How God Became King - Preface (part 1)

by SPCK - N T Wright

Preface (part 1) It has been slowly dawning on me over many years that there is a fundamental problem deep at the heart of Christian faith and practice as I have known them. This problem can be summarized quite easily: we have all forgotten what the four gospels are about…

How God Became King - 2d The Orthodox Response

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Orthodox Response Reimarus and his colleagues were not the only people reading the gospels in the eighteenth century. Within the church, the challenge of the sceptics put the church on the defensive…

How God Became King - 4 The Story of Israel

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Story of Israel Imagine, if you will, that you have set up a new sound system in your living room. You have installed a quadraphonic set of speakers, one in each corner. But you haven’t yet worked out how to adjust them individually, and the sound is strange and distorted. Ea…

How God Became King - 6d The End Is the Beginning

by SPCK - N T Wright

The End Is the Beginning The gospels, in fact, do not really ‘end’ in the way many stories do. Or rather, their ending is framed as, in a sense, a new beginning…

How God Became King - 10 The Remaking of Meanings

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Remaking of Meanings We noted in part 1 of this book the way in which we have been conditioned to read the gospels as though the themes of the kingdom and the cross could be held at arm’s length from one another…

THE AWESOME JOURNEY - 7 The shaking of the foundations

by SPCK - David Adam

The shaking of the foundations O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world unknowable, we know thee, Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!…

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