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网页My most recent publications are: 'The reimagining of theological time: Revelation's use of the Old Testament' in The Scriptures in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature. 'The genre of Revelation' (including two new proposals!) in The Apocalypse of John amongst its Critics. The New Testament's Vision of Mission Grove booklet, exploring key themes from the teaching and
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网页August 6, 2024. Jesus feeds everyone who comes to him in John 6 August 5, 2024. What is the problem with a Third Province in the Church of England? August 1, 2024. Should Christians take offence? July 31, 2024. Jesus is the bread of life in John 6 July 30, 2024.
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网页Pebbles were also used for casting your vote in elections, and in modern Greek the verb psephizo means ‘to vote [for]’. The puzzling figure at the centre of all this, Jesus, is challenging and puzzling at times, but the only one who has the words of eternal life. Once we have ‘done the math’, we then need to make a decision: will we ...
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网页2019年1月21日 · October 4, 2022 by Ian Paul. Stephen Kuhrt writes: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis was first published in February 1942. The book is made up of thirty one letters from a senior demon called Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood. Wormwood is a junior tempter assigned to lead a man who has recently become a Christian away from God.
Biblical Studies - Psephizo
网页2024年9月12日 · The Turning Point of the Gospel at Mark 8. September 9, 2024 by Ian Paul. The reading for Trinity 16 in this Year B (Trinity 15 in other years) is Mark 8.27–38, the encounter with forms the pivot in the second gospel: until now, there has been power, success, dynamism and crowds, but from now on, Jesus walks the lonely path to …
Jesus’ radical inversion of our community values in Mark 9
网页6 天之前 · The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 17 in this Year B is Mark 9.30–37 (the reading for Trinity 16 three years ago because of where the weekends fall). In our reading of Mark, we have leap-frogged from the confession at Ceasarea Philippi, over the Transfiguration (which is considered at other times in the lectionary) and the following deliverance episode, to a short cluster of ...
Year: 2021 | Psephizo
网页2021年12月24日 · The lectionary gospel reading for this Sunday is either the Ephiphany in Matt 2.1–12, or the readings for Christmas 2 in Year C, which is John 1.1–18 or John 1.10–18.
What is worship? - Psephizo
网页2018年2月22日 · Responding to God’s initiative, confessing our sins, celebrating in song, locating ourselves in the story of God’s people, reflecting on theology, living with tensions and contrasts, and expressing all this in bodily action as we meet together—all these are essential parts of our worship.If any of them is missing, God is reduced, our worship is diminished and we are the less for it.
Month: October 2022 - Psephizo
网页Andrew Goddard writes: What follows builds on the previous article’s account of where the Church of England is in its LLF process of discernment, the importance of the bishops providing a theological argument for the way forward, and the need to recognise that we begin with an existing, long-established teaching on what constitutes a chaste …
Month: October 2020 - Psephizo
网页2020年10月29日 · The lectionary reading for the so-called ‘Last Sunday after Trinity’ as we near the end of Year A is Matthew 22.34–46. Having had three symbolic actions from Jesus (entering the city, overturning the tables, withering the fig tree) and three parables (the two sons, the wicked tenants, the wedding banquet), we have now reached the …