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Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Intercessions - Advent 3 - Year C
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Intercessions - Advent 3 - Year C
by SPCK - Ian Black
Intercessions - Advent 3 - Year C Rejoice in the Lord always Sing aloud to God. Let us rejoice and give you thanks, O Lord, for you challenge and inspire your people. Make your Church expectant with your promise . . . As we rejoice in you, let your gentleness be known. Let us rej…
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Intercessions - Advent 1 - Year C
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Intercessions - Advent 1 - Year C
by SPCK - Ian Black
Intercessions - Advent 1 - Year C Remember us in your love, O Lord We put our trust in you. Lord Jesus Christ, we look for signs of your dawning Kingdom. Keep your Church expectant for the fulfilment of your promises . . . Keep us alert and focused on the hope of your coming. Lor…
Simply Good News - The Problem with Progress
Simply Good News - The Problem with Progress
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Problem with Progress Doctrine – isn’t that a strong, almost Christian word for a philosophical teaching? Yes, and that is exactly how progress is used. I spoke two chapters ago about the way the scientific discoveries and political innovations of the eighteenth century gave …
Simply Good News - Roman Good News
Simply Good News - Roman Good News
by SPCK - N T Wright
1, part c Roman Good News Let me turn now to another illustration. This one comes from the time and place where Jesus himself burst on the scene with his original good news, where Saint Paul went with the gospel: the world of the early Roman Empire. Come back with me to the first…
Arthur's Call - Arthur's life with us
Arthur's Call - Arthur's life with us
by SPCK - Frances Young
1 Arthur’s life with us It was in June 2012, when he’d just had his 45th birthday, that Arthur finally left home and we ceased to be his carers. This chapter tells the human story, not just articulating what it’s like to have a child born with severe disabilities, but also giving…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - How to get the best out of this resource
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - How to get the best out of this resource
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
How to get the best out of this resource This book is written for any church, home group or individual believing that any disabled person should be welcomed, valued and enabled to make a contribution to the work of God in his or her community. The contributors hope that you will …
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Introduction
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Introduction
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Introduction Enabling is what I believe the Church should be about: enabling all people to discover God’s amazing love; and enabling each person in the body of Christ to play his or her part, so the Church of Christ can function to its full potential…
Transforming Preaching - Preaching for transformation
Transforming Preaching - Preaching for transformation
by SPCK - David Heywood
1 Why preach? Preaching for transformation In the previous sections we have looked briefly at preaching in the contexts of contemporary culture and the Church’s life and worship. We saw that preaching is related to worship, teaching, pastoral care, leadership and evangelism. All …
Transforming Preaching - A microcosm of ministry
Transforming Preaching - A microcosm of ministry
by SPCK - David Heywood
1 Why preach? A microcosm of ministry At the heart of the Church’s worship and life is the expectation that people will encounter God, and preaching is the activity that focuses and expresses this expectation. Karl Barth called it the ‘representative event at the centre of the Ch…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - On Keeping One’s Mouth Shut
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - On Keeping One’s Mouth Shut
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Alternative to a Bulletproof Vest Psalm 140 Not surprisingly (I recently read in a magazine), the best place to buy a bulletproof vest is Bogotá, Colombia, where two students at the University of the Andes noticed that bodyguards didn’t wear their bulletproof vests because th…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Get Prayer to Work
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Get Prayer to Work
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Get Prayer to Work Psalm 142 In connection with Psalms 120–121, I mentioned the visit a group of my friends were making to one of the poorest and most dangerous countries in Africa, in connection with their commitment to letting the voice of refugees there be heard in the …
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Restore Us Again
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Restore Us Again
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Restore Us Again Psalm 85 It is easy for me as a Brit to be resentful of the U.S. media’s critiques of Britain and Europe. “Why do they think it’s their business to criticize when the United States can’t solve its own problems?” I wonder. “Are the British media so critical of the…
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Hard Sayings
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Hard Sayings
by BRF - Dick France
Hard Sayings These verses contain a collection of sayings, probably originally independent of each other, which are linked by ‘catch-words’: stumbling, fire, salt. They draw out some of the demands and the perils of discipleship, and warn against an easy, lax approach which refus…
Simply Good News - Can we Trust the Gospels?
Simply Good News - Can we Trust the Gospels?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Can we Trust the Gospels? Let’s start with the obvious problem. Can we trust the Gospels? Answering that properly would take another whole book, and indeed I’ve written one or two on that topic. Despite a continuing chorus of scepticism, I and many other scholars who have studied…
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of Kingdom
Simply Good News - A Different Kind of Kingdom
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Different Kind of Kingdom Americans often tell me this. ‘We used to have kings,’ they say, ‘but we gave them up. You British understand these things; we don’t.’ This is a misunderstanding. The constitutional monarchy we have today in the United Kingdom is quite different from a…
Arthur's Call - Creation
Arthur's Call - Creation
by SPCK - Frances Young
4 Creation In creation there is fragility and vulnerability; that is the nature of creation. That was one of the wise sayings collected at our first L’Arche meeting. My original anguished question had been, ‘How can I go on believing in a good Creator God when something so drasti…
The Post Evangelical - 4 Longing to grow