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The Gospel in a Feed Trough
The Gospel in a Feed Trough A sermon on Luke 2:1-20 by Nathan Nettleton, The Feast of the Nativity, 2006 Who have we gathered to celebrate tonight? Who is the one whom we gather to greet? Who is the one whose presence with us at the table we anticipate tonight? The baby of Bethlehem? The […]
Galatians (N T Wright)
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=”Windows-1252″; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 The Letter to the Galatians: Exegesis and Theology (Originally published in Between Two Horizons: Spanning New Testament Studies and Systematic Theology Joel B. Green and Max Turner, eds., 2000, Grand Rapids: […]
Galatians (N T Wright)
thought about these things, it might become clear that the attacks, though sometimes interesting and important, are not ultimately valid. But most people in western Europe, and many in North America, do not think very hard about such issues. They assume, not least because the media tell them so, that “God†and “religion†are somehow […]
Born in Continuity and Change
Sunday, December 10, 2006 Topic: Born in Continuity and Change Text: Luke 1: 67-79 Introduction: A friend in Canada once told me this story. Her parents had been visiting from England and had stayed with the family for a couple of months. One afternoon when Heather, my friend, was driving in the car, her daughter, […]
The Marian Vision
Dec. 24, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Luke 1: 39-56 No persona in the literary and artistic traditions of Christianity has captured the imagination as has Mary – or Mariam (MUD-ee-ahm) – said to have been the mother of Jesus. Unlike others in the cast of the drama known as the New Testament – say, […]
Bethlehem
19 DECEMBER 2006 Text of Archbishop of Canterbury’s, Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s, Wogan Just to complicate Christmas preparations a bit more this year, I’ll be off to Bethlehem on Wednesday with some of my colleagues. We’re planning to be there for a few days just before Christmas, and with luck – we’ll […]
Innkeeper’s Story
I have written the following story for my column in the local paper this week. The readers of that small-town weekly might miss half the subtleties but I hope it inspires someone. I thought I’d offer it here for a wider readership. It’s a bit longer than usual – 1200 words. Of course, the innkeeper […]
John and Baptist and Mary
Dec. 17, 2006 Plain and Unvarnished By Harry T. Cook Luke 3: 7-18 We meet in quick succession in the last half of Advent two of the most compelling characters in the gospel drama: John the Baptist and Mary the mother of Jesus. Outwardly they are quite different, and it is easy to miss the […]
Bethlehem welcomes Church Leaders’ visit
ACNS 4228 | MIDDLE EAST | 12 DECEMBER 2006 Bethlehem welcomes Church Leaders’ visit The Catholic and Anglican bishops of Jerusalem have welcomed the announcement by UK church leaders of their pilgrimage to Bethlehem. The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the Moderator of the Free Churches the […]
Orthodox Liturgy for Feast of the Circumcision
The celebration of the circumcision of the Lord Christ is one of the Minor feasts of the Lord, falling on January 14th. Here is the synaxarion readings for that day, as well as the saints who departed on that date from the ancient church: The Coptic Synaxarium Readings for: Tubah 6 [1] The Commemoration of […]
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