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Word for the Week 2011

Welcome to the Word for the Week 2011 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 for the last ten 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.

The Extraordinary in the Ordinary (2): What if God Was One of Us?

Date:
19-12-2011
Author:
Antony Billington

Yes, you read that right - 'no guest room'. That's how the revised New International Version translates Luke 2:7. It comes as a surprise...

The Extraordinary in the Ordinary (1): There’s Something About Mary

Date:
12-12-2011
Author:
Antony Billington

While it has always been possible to make too much of Mary, it has been all too easy to make too little of her. Because...

James (9): Doing and Being

Date:
05-12-2011
Author:
Helen Parry

To James the word 'religion' describes neither the Christian faith nor Christian, 'churchy', activities. He is talking here about what the Christian faith looks like...

James 1 (8): Careless talk costs lives

Date:
28-11-2011
Author:
Helen Parry

I can't help wondering about James' experience of the church. To us, perhaps, this verse conjures up a picture of gossiping and back-biting - the 'religious'...

Ephesians 1 (6) The blessing of the big picture

Date:
21-11-2011
Author:
Margaret Killingray

Most of us live pretty much from day to day most of the time. It's what to eat tonight; where to go on holiday; whether we've done enough work for tomorrow's...

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