NT Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 WEDNESDAY... ...James stared at the machine doubtfully. ‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘Looks quite clever, but I can’t see how it can ever actually work.’ His brother, who had spent all winter building the new machine – they were farmers, and neede…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 TUESDAY... ...Mark Twain is reputed to have said that history never repeats itself, but that it often rhymes. In other words, although every event is unique, many events resemble others. They fall into a pattern. Sometimes, looking back along …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 MONDAY... Imagine you are standing on a high hill, overlooking a long valley. In the valley are villages, a river, fields and woods, with a network of small roads winding their way between them all. Now imagine that you can see a car, driving …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 SUNDAY... ...‘Sticks and stones may break my bones,’ goes the old jingle, ‘but words will never hurt me.’ It’s a lie. Don’t believe it. Words are far, far more powerful than anything else. A sword can maim or kill, but only in the crudest of f…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 SATURDAY... ...It happens all the time in spy movies and TV thrillers. Some- one does or says something which, by itself, seems quite unimportant. But the hero, or perhaps the villain, recognizes that this is the sign. This is the moment. He o…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 FRIDAY... ...One of the best sermons I have heard for a long time was an exposition of this passage. It took the theme of the blind man’s cloak. The cloak, the preacher pointed out, was the man’s security. Shade in summer, warmth in winter, it…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 THURSDAY... ‘Sorry, you can’t have that seat. It’s already been booked.’ I was frustrated. It was one of my favourite train journeys, past some magnificent scenery. But the train was crowded, and there were hardly any seats on the side where o…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 TUESDAY... ...The building inspector hurried across the road to where the workmen had already got the wall a few feet up from the ground. ‘What are you doing?’ he asked, in some agitation. ‘We’re building this house!’ they replied. ‘Do you hav…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 MONDAY... In the last days of the old regime, the hardest thing for ordinary people in the capital was not knowing who they could trust. The old dictator was still in power, though increasingly weakened by rebellions from inside his country an…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 SUNDAY... ...Please read the whole Psalm. I know: it’s Sunday, you’re busy, nine verses is easier than forty-three. But please read it anyway. We live in an age of snippets: the British radio station Classic FM has got big, these last ten year…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3:SATURDAY... ...I sat for two hours with a young man who could not believe in God’s love. When I say ‘could not’, that is quite literally how it seemed. He could not believe in God’s love in much the same way that he was physically incapable of…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3:FRIDAY... ...The first time I went on live radio, I wasn’t conscious of being terrified until I began to speak. Even then, I didn’t feel it as a flutter in the stomach, or my knees knocking together, or anything like that. It came out – well, …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Third Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Third Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3:THURSDAY... ...I have a special memory of this passage, going right back to my university days. I had not been a very good pupil in my English Literature lessons at school. I had not really discovered something that any sensible reader of nove…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Third Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Third Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3: WEDNESDAY... ...He went to the door of the restaurant and looked in. Then he came back to the car, shaking his head. ‘It’s not our sort of place,’ he said. The other occupants of the car understood. They drove on to another part of town, to t…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Third Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Third Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3: TUESDAY... ...I once watched as an angry crowd burnt a Russian flag. Soviet military aircraft had shot down a Korean civilian plane on 1 September 1983, over the Pacific Ocean, on the suspicion that it had been spying. All on board were kille…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3: MONDAY... ...We were staying in a remote part of Scotland for a holiday. Our hosts, welcoming us, pointed out that we didn’t need a key for the door. They never locked it. The risk of intruders or burglars in that part of the world was more o…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: First Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: First Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 1: TUESDAY... You know the revolution has become serious when its leaders appoint an alternative government. The Western world watched and waited in the early months of 2011 as the Libyan rebels set up a kind of shadow body. There was still a ‘g…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 1 in Lent Year B