Some very brief study questions / notes / passages to discuss for our book group: What’s the basic idea of the book? Where does it sta...

Psalm 10: A poem Not rhyme but parallelism And a broken acrostic with Psalm 9 A poetic description not a systematic theol...

There has been much discussion in recent years over the grouping of the Psalms. Presumably the editors of the Psalter did not merely throw t...

Mrs Lloyd has been reading an extract about caffeine from The Revd Steve Hoppe's new book, Sipping Salt Water, on the Good Book Company ...

The Bible is not a Systematic Theology text book. Arguably, at least, the books of Proverbs and Psalms are particularly far from being so. ...

I am currently preaching a little sermon series off and on in the Psalms and I am thinking of using the following at a forthcoming family se...

He was not keen that people should call themselves Lutherans rather than Christians. He said, how should I, poor stinking maggot-fodder that...

Ryrie tells us that the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I had been dying for years. From 1514 till his death in 1519, he took a coffin with hi...

I don't know what they were but Ryrie tells us that Luther himself had "published" theses many times before on different subje...

Were a new form which "cost roughly the same as a hen in sixteenth-century Germany and could offer more lasting and spicier nourishment...

Rightly or wrongly, one proverb claimed that once the church had golden priests who served from wooden chalices whereas now wooden priests s...

Thus far I have read only a fraction of Alec Ryrie's Protestants: The Radicals who made the modern world (London: William Collins, 2017)...

In his biography of Martin Luther, Peter Stanford explains that at a literary festival historian Prof Peter Hennessy delighted the audience ...

Basil: “The Holy Spirit sees how much difficulty mankind has in loving virtue, and how we prefer the lure of pleasure to the straight an...

I wrote this prayer towards the beginning of my sabbatical . Here's something of what I've been praying this final week of my sab...

In case these are of any use to others: Psalm 13: http://marclloyd.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/psalm-13-jottings.html Psalm 12: http://m...

Psalm 13 notes Uses: When prayer seems unanswered / God seems far away or absent or appears to hide / when feeling forgotten...

It looks like I may have neglected to post these notes when I made them so just in case they are of any interest: Psalm 7 notes ...

Much of life is, on the whole, simple but not easy. Take healthy living as an example. Eat a moderate balanced diet and exercise and so on...

Scripture and Supper are both signs related to a reality. How do they refer? If we might say that the “language” of the Supper, including ...