Tom Wright
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God's Strange Wisdom
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God's Strange Wisdom
by SPCK - N T Wright
1 THE WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT GOD’S STRANGE WISDOM 1 Corinthians 2: 6-13 When my sister celebrated her twenty-first birthday, she and I were at university, a long way from home. So a cousin of my father’s, who lived nearby, invited the two of us to dinner to celebrate. He and his wi…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God's Powerful Mystery
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God's Powerful Mystery
by SPCK - N T Wright
1 THE WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT GOD’S POWERFUL MYSTERY 1 Corinthians 2: 1-5 Life is full of mystery. The deepest, richest and most complex theories that science can ever come up with only serve to highlight the fact that there is still a depth of mystery which goes way beyond it all. …
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Introduction
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
INTRODUCTION I worked for some years as a member of a team of nine. Every month we used to meet for the best part of a day and slog our way through all kinds of issues – big questions of policy, sensitive details about individual people, routine (but important) matters of adminis…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Dead to Sin, Alive to God
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Dead to Sin, Alive to God
by SPCK - N T Wright
Dead to Sin, Alive to God ROMANS 6.6-11 From time to time I hear of someone who has suffered a bad accident, or a particular kind of illness, and can no longer remember who they are. It must be deeply disturbing – both for the person concerned and for those trying to help. We are…
The Pastoral Letters - Glossary
The Pastoral Letters - Glossary
by SPCK - N T Wright
GLOSSARY accuser, see the satan age to come, see present age apostle, disciple, the Twelve ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul …
2 Corinthians - Glossary
2 Corinthians - Glossary
by SPCK - N T Wright
GLOSSARY accuser, see the satan age to come, see present age apostle, disciple, the Twelve ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul …
2 Corinthians - Grace, Love and Fellowship
2 Corinthians - Grace, Love and Fellowship
by SPCK - N T Wright
Grace, Love and Fellowship 2 CORINTHIANS 13.11-13 The final sentence of 2 Corinthians is one of the most famous lines anywhere in Paul – so famous, in fact, that many people who hear it, or say it regularly, don’t even realize it is by Paul, and wouldn’t be able to find it if the…
2 Corinthians - Test Yourselves!
2 Corinthians - Test Yourselves!
by SPCK - N T Wright
Test Yourselves! 2 CORINTHIANS 13.5-10 These days all sorts of machines come with their own inbuilt self-test system. My computer printer will run a self-test automatically if there has been some malfunction or error. Some modern cars have components that will check, all by thems…
2 Corinthians - What Will happen When Paul Arrives?
2 Corinthians - What Will happen When Paul Arrives?
by SPCK - N T Wright
What Will Happen When Paul Arrives? 2 CORINTHIANS 12.19-13.4 Three of the letters in the New Testament – the two letters addressed to Timothy, and the one to Titus – are known as ‘The Pastoral Epistles’. But actually, the more I read our present letter, 2 Corinthians, the more I …
2 Corinthians - The Sign of a True Apostle
2 Corinthians - The Sign of a True Apostle
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Signs of a True Apostle 2 CORINTHIANS 12.11-18 All the time I have been writing this book, great events have been going on around me. A royal death, followed by the lying-in-state, the official mourning, and then the majestic and solemn funeral, have made the whole country pa…
2 Corinthians - The Vision and the Thorn
2 Corinthians - The Vision and the Thorn
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Vision and the Thorn 2 CORINTHIANS 12.1-10 Daedalus was a legendary Greek sculptor and craftsman, famous throughout the ancient world for his many clever inventions. It’s probable that he really did exist, though many of the stories about him and his work are clearly made up …
2 Corinthians - Boasting of Weaknesses
2 Corinthians - Boasting of Weaknesses
by SPCK - N T Wright
Boasting of Weaknesses 2 CORINTHIANS 11.21b-33 You can see the war memorial from the other side of the valley. It stands on the slope just below the main school buildings, a simple but elegant cloister of grey stone, containing the names of boys from the school who died in the gr…
2 Corinthians - The Boasting of a Reluctant Fool
2 Corinthians - The Boasting of a Reluctant Fool
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Boasting of a Reluctant Fool 2 CORINTHIANS 11.16-21a There was a party going on downstairs, but the company president wasn’t at it. Normally he enjoyed a good party with the best of them, but today wasn’t the day. He knew the business was heading for difficult times, and ther…
2 Corinthians - No, They are False Prophets!
2 Corinthians - No, They are False Prophets!
by SPCK - N T Wright
No, They Are False Apostles! 2 CORINTHIANS 11.7-15 The door to my study was open when the telephone rang in the hall, so I couldn’t help overhearing the conversation, or rather this end of it. And what I heard was quite disturbing. ‘How could you think I imagined that . . .?’ ‘Bu…
2 Corinthians - Super Apostles?
2 Corinthians - Super Apostles?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Super-Apostles 2 CORINTHIANS 11.1-6 Many movies have as a stock theme the marriage service that goes wrong at the last minute. The famous 1960s movie, The Graduate, ended up with the hero dashing into the church where his true love was about to marry someone else, and snatching h…
2 Corinthians - Boasting in The Lord
2 Corinthians - Boasting in The Lord
by SPCK - N T Wright
Boasting in the Lord 2 CORINTHIANS 10.12-18 I took my son to school on a snowy morning. He was wearing boots, gloves, a woolly hat and a thick coat. When we got there – he was about five years old – we had quite a struggle to take it all off and get him ready for classes. To help…
2 Corinthians - The Battle for the Mind
2 Corinthians - The Battle for the Mind
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Battle for the Mind It was pitch dark, and the prickles from the bush I was hiding behind were sticking through my clothes and into my skin. I couldn’t see anything, but I could hear, very faintly, someone coming along the path. All chance of reaching my own goal had disappea…
2 Corinthians - God Loves a Cheerful Giver