Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Resurrection Gives Meaning to Present Christian Life
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Resurrection Gives Meaning to Present Christian Life
by SPCK - N T Wright
Resurrection Gives Meaning to Present Christian Living 1 Corinthians 15.29-34 We stood in the great Coliseum in Rome, and stared at the chambers and passages underneath where the floor would have been. ‘This is where they kept the wild animals,’ our guide said. ‘They used ropes a…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 17.22–31 1 Peter 3.13–22 John 14.15–21 In a spectacular (and presumably heavily abbreviated) speech, Paul takes on culturally sophisticated Athens with the new upside-down wisdom. He begins on their own territory, with the altar to the Unk…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Signs of the New Covenant
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Signs of the New Covenant
by SPCK - N T Wright
Signs of the New Covenant Acts 4. 32-37 Some politicians’ phrases pass into folk legend. I am old enough ( just) to remember Harold Macmillan saying, ‘You’ve never had it so good.’ Some Americans can remember Roosevelt talking about the ‘New Deal’. And generations to come will st…
Mark for Everyone - Signs of the End
Mark for Everyone - Signs of the End
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 13.1–13 Signs of the End... ...The place to start to understand this passage is in the middle, at verse 8: ‘These are the beginnings of the birthpangs.’ Jesus’ disciples would have known more about birthpangs than most modern men. I watched three of my four…
The Pastoral Letters - Slaves, Masters and Sound Teaching
The Pastoral Letters - Slaves, Masters and Sound Teaching
by SPCK - N T Wright
Slaves, Masters and Sound Teaching 1Timothy 6.1-5 Supposing the world goes on for another thousand years, and the Christians alive at that time look back at our generation, what will shock them most? We could each, no doubt, draw up our list of (other people’s) failings and fault…
John for Everyone Part 1 - Sower and Reaper Rejoice Together
John for Everyone Part 1 - Sower and Reaper Rejoice Together
by SPCK - N T Wright
Sower and Reaper Rejoice Together John 4.27-42 I was telephoned this morning by a colleague who was writing a piece about George Frideric Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. We agreed that it has a unique place in the affection not only of Christians, and of serious music-lovers, but …
Hebrews for Everyone - So - Come to Worship
Hebrews for Everyone - So - Come to Worship
by SPCK - N T Wright
So- Come to Worship! Hebrews 10.19-25 I watched as my mother came in from shopping, carrying several bulging bags. She called me to help get the rest from the car. I couldn’t think why she’d bought so much food, but I fetched and carried and unloaded as best I could. Then I remem…
Luke for Everyone - Simeon and Anna
Luke for Everyone - Simeon and Anna
by SPCK - N T Wright
Simeon and Anna Luke 2.21-40 I watched as the craftsman went about his task. He carefully set the lead into the window to be the framework for the beautiful glass he had been staining. Now came the moment: where before was a plain window, now there was a riot of colour and shape,…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Apostle's Freedom - to be Enslaved to Everyone
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Apostle's Freedom - to be Enslaved to Everyone
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Apostle’s Freedom – to be Enslaved to Everyone 1 Corinthians 9.19-23 One of the greatest thinkers and statesmen of the Roman world a century before Paul was Cicero. He was a sophisticated philosopher, a brilliant lawyer, a politician, and above all a passionate believer in th…
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…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The "Rights" of an Apostle
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The "Rights" of an Apostle
by SPCK - N T Wright
The “Rights” of an Apostle 1 Corinthians 9.1-12a One of the great moral gains of the second half of the twentieth century is the belief, shared by most people around the world, that all people are to be respected and valued. All people, not just some. Weak people, poor people, li…
John for Everyone part 2 - The Arrest of Jesus
John for Everyone part 2 - The Arrest of Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Arrest of Jesus John 18.1-14 He came, looking for someone. He came on the evening breeze, came as he had always come. Came because they knew each other, and used to spend time together. Came to the garden, because that’s where they always met. That’s where he was at home. And…
Luke for Everyone - The Beatitudes
Luke for Everyone - The Beatitudes
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Beatitudes Luke 6.12-26 Let us imagine that you are a schoolteacher. One day, you go out into the school playground, where there are dozens of children kicking footballs around. You go over to where they are, and call for them to gather round. Then you begin, slowly but surel…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - That They May Be One
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - That They May Be One
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PRAYERS OF JESUS THAT THEY MAY BE ONE John 17: 20-26 This afternoon I looked on the Internet for a website about an electric appliance that’s gone wrong. I’ve lost the instruction booklet and was hoping to find relevant information through the …
Mark for Everyone - The Authority of Jesus Is Questioned
Mark for Everyone - The Authority of Jesus Is Questioned
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 11.27–33 The Authority of Jesus Is Questioned... ...It is a busy Friday afternoon, in the middle of the city rush- hour. The traffic has built up for some time, and now there is gridlock. Nobody can move. Horns are blaring, taxi-drivers swearing. Hot and ti…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Badge, the Name and the Meaning
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Badge, the Name and the Meaning
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Badge, the Name and the Meaning ROMANS 2.25-29 From time to time one of the big supermarket chains decides to try to pass off its own products as though they were made by one of the regular manufacturers. I remember one store a while ago which sold breakfast cereal with a pac…
The Pastoral Letters - The Battle of Faith
The Pastoral Letters - The Battle of Faith
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Battle of Faith 1Timothy 1.18-20 In the days before ships could navigate by satellite, the compass was the most crucial item on board. Whether it was sunny or snowing, whether it was day or night, whether the ship was on course or off course, the compass was the vital sign th…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Call to the World, and the Father of Israel