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Journeying with Luke - Ordinary Time 1
Journeying with Luke - Ordinary Time 1
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
7 Ordinary Time 1 Exploring the text Ordinary Time, the time that falls between Epiphany and the start of Lent and between Pentecost Sunday and the kingdom season, gains its name not from what we think of as the meaning of ordinary (i.e. everyday) but from the Latin term tempus o…
Journeying with Luke - The Sundays before Lent
Journeying with Luke - The Sundays before Lent
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
3 The Sundays before Lent Exploring the text One of the themes which the passages we explore during Christmas and Epiphany bring to the fore is the question ‘Who is this Jesus?’ Who is the Jesus that the shepherds are summoned to visit? Who is the Jesus who can converse with his …
The Lion's World - Introduction The Lion's World
The Lion's World - Introduction The Lion's World
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Introduction The Lion’s World Not every reader has been charmed by C. S. Lewis’s Narnia stories, and the recent release of high-earning film versions of several of the books has renewed the controversy. Critics of Christian faith have been predictably vocal – though their comment…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Resurrection of Jesus
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Resurrection of Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Resurrection of Jesus Matthew 28.1-10 Everyone above a certain age, in the Western world at least, can remember where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Many people in other parts of the world will be able to remember where they were and w…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Warnings against Scribes and Pharisees
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Warnings against Scribes and Pharisees
by SPCK - N T Wright
Warnings against Scribes and Pharisees Matthew 23.1-12 The man in the camping shop was good at his job. ‘This is the kind of tent you’ll need,’ he said. ‘It’ll last through all weathers, enough room for all your kit, easy to put up.’ Gratefully, I added it to the pile of maps, so…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Peter's Declaration of Jesus' Messiahship
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Peter's Declaration of Jesus' Messiahship
by SPCK - N T Wright
Peter’s Declaration of Jesus’ Messiahship Matthew 16.13-20 The Tibetan Buddhists believe in the transmigration of souls. When someone dies, they suppose that the soul of that person goes immediately into a different body, the body of a child born at the same instant. This belief …
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Predicts His Death
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Predicts His Death
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus Predicts His Death Matthew 16.21-28 When Lewis Carroll had become famous through his story Alice in Wonderland, he decided to follow it up with a second book in which both he and his readers would need to learn how to think inside out. In Alice through the Looking Glass he …
friends, FOES and families - Take her and go! Rebekah ans Isaac
friends, FOES and families - Take her and go! Rebekah ans Isaac
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Take her and go! Rebekah and Isaac Genesis 24-27 God, who is guest at every wedding, seal us together as one. It is evening and a beautiful young woman steps lightly down the steps to the well, then, a few minutes later, reappears, a pitcher of water on her shoulder, careful not …
The Lion's World - 1 - The Point of Narnia The Lion's World
The Lion's World - 1 - The Point of Narnia The Lion's World
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
The point of Narnia The Lion’s World A middle-aged bachelor teaching English Literature at Oxford proposes to publish a children’s fantasy: in most publishers’ offices, it is a proposal destined for the wastepaper basket. Yet no one could deny the extraordinary and continuing app…
John for Everyone part 2 - Obeying and Loving
John for Everyone part 2 - Obeying and Loving
by SPCK - N T Wright
Obeying and Loving John 15.9-17 John for Everyone Part 2 Like an innocent child wandering by itself into a kitchen and pressing the switches that will set the house on fire, some biblical texts have been taken out of their original setting and used in ways that would have horrifi…
The Lion's World - 2 - Narnia and its crtitics
The Lion's World - 2 - Narnia and its crtitics
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Narnia and its critics I mentioned earlier the way in which Philip Pullman had conceived his own trilogy as a sort of riposte to the Narnia books. The parallels are clear enough – an alternative universe including talking animals, even (though Pullman might dispute this) an activ…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Question about John
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Question about John
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Question about John Matthew 21.23-32 When the police finally caught up with the man, they took him off to a police station and sat him down. They let him get his breath back, and then the questions began. ‘What were you doing in that street at that time of night? What right d…
The Lord and His Prayer - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
The Lord and His Prayer - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
by SPCK - N T Wright
Forgive Us Our Trespasses CHAPTER FOUR One of the most vivid images in the whole New Testament is that of a man running. These days, people of all sorts run to keep fit. Even presidents and politicians have been known to don jogging suits, and even to be photographed taking exerc…
The Lord and His Prayer - Deliver Us From Evil
The Lord and His Prayer - Deliver Us From Evil
by SPCK - N T Wright
Deliver Us From Evil CHAPTER FIVE The previous chapter focussed on the Running Father, as we looked at the prayer for forgiveness. This time, as we come to the prayer for Deliverance from Evil, the dominant image offered to us is that of the Waiting Mother. ‘The hopes and fears o…
The Lord and His Prayer - The Power and the Glory
The Lord and His Prayer - The Power and the Glory
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Power and the Glory CHAPTER SIX ‘In those days,’ says Luke, ‘there went out a decree from the Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.’ These words have become so well known, through constant repetition in carol services, that we may perhaps be forgiven for n…
The Lord and His Prayer - Thy Kingdom Come
The Lord and His Prayer - Thy Kingdom Come
by SPCK - N T Wright
Thy Kingdom Come CHAPTER TWO What are we praying for when we pray for God’s kingdom to come? The second main petition in the Lord’s Prayer – ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ – rules out any idea that the kingdom of God is a purely heavenly (that is, ‘otherworldly’) reality. Thy kingdom come, w…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Why not Hear My Story?
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Why not Hear My Story?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Why Not Hear My Story? Acts 21.23-22.11 A story is told of Bishop Kallistos Ware, the Greek Orthodox bishop who for many years taught theology at Oxford. Bishop Ware was born and bred in England (his original name was Timothy), and he converted to Greek Orthodoxy as he was growin…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Disturbing Prophecies