Welcome to the Word for the Week 2009 archive. Here you’ll find copies of the weekly emails which have provided a source of stimulation, encouragement and challenge to many thousands of people over the last eight years. Read them again, or read them for the first time. A new Word for the Week article is produced every week and is added to this archive, so check back regularly
Date:
08-03-2010
Author:
Helen Parry
The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44
Date:
01-03-2010
Author:
Margaret Killingray
We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him… For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are ...
Date:
22-02-2010
Author:
Antony Billington
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us… The creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not o...
Date:
15-02-2010
Author:
Margaret Killingray
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces… You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once...
Date:
08-02-2010
Author:
Helen Parry
It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. Philippians 3:1
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