Mark for Everyone - The Healing of the Demoniac
Mark for Everyone - The Healing of the Demoniac
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 5.1–20 The Healing of the Demoniac... ...The east side of the Sea of Galilee, rising steeply up to the Golan Heights, is still disputed territory, 2,000 years on from this story. For many years, it belonged to Syria; the Israelis took it in the war of 1967;…
Mark for Everyone - The Healing of the Paralytic
Mark for Everyone - The Healing of the Paralytic
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 2.1–12 The Healing of the Paralytic... ...Everyone was astonished, and they praised God. ‘We’ve never seen anything like this!’ they said . Most people don’t realize that this was probably Jesus’ own house. He had moved to Capernaum from Nazareth; the point…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Demoniacs
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Demoniacs
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Demoniacs Matthew 8.28-34 I was listening to some music last night that kept surprising me. It was a great symphony, with a wonderful tune that turned this way and that, sweeping us along, catching our emotions and lifting our spirits. Then, just when you thoug…
Mark for Everyone - The Healing of the Leper
Mark for Everyone - The Healing of the Leper
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 1.35–45 The Healing of a Leper... ...Oscar Wilde said he could resist everything except temptation. In rather the same way, some people can keep anything except a secret. However much you say ‘You won’t tell, will you?’, and however much people say ‘Oh no! …
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Leper and the Centurion's Servant
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Leper and the Centurion's Servant
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Leper and the Centurion’s Servant Matthew 8.1-13 ‘Who’s in charge here?’ The policeman suddenly appeared in the doorway. Everyone stood still. It had been a wonderful party up to that point; a bit riotous, perhaps, but great fun. Now, we guessed, one of the nei…
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Cripple
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Cripple
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Cripple John 5.1-9a There were two small boys playing in the overgrown garden. The old man who lived in the big house had been ill for many weeks, and though nurses and doctors came and went to the house nobody seemed to bother about what happened in the garden…
Luke for Everyone - The Healing of the Demoniac
Luke for Everyone - The Healing of the Demoniac
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Demoniac Luke 8.26-39 I have a photograph, framed above my mantelpiece, of the sea of Galilee seen from the top of the Golan heights. I took it on a sunny day in late autumn: the scene is tranquil and clear, with the town of Tiberias just visible on the opposit…
Luke for Everyone - The Healing of the Centurion's Servant
Luke for Everyone - The Healing of the Centurion's Servant
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Centurion’s Servant Luke 7.1-10 The soldier walks forward slowly into the jungle. His task is to protect villagers from terrorists; every step means danger. Suddenly a command reaches him on his radio. His senior officer has seen where the enemy are hiding. He …
Luke for Everyone - The Healing of the Leper
Luke for Everyone - The Healing of the Leper
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Leper Luke 5.12-16 Imagine a man in prison for serious fraud. When he has served his sentence, and re-emerged into the community, what will happen if he goes to his old employer and asks for his job back? What will happen, indeed, if he goes to any employer and…
Simply Jesus - The Kingdom Present and Future
Simply Jesus - The Kingdom Present and Future
by SPCK - N T Wright
The kingdom present and future When Jesus healed people, when he celebrated parties with all and sundry, when he offered forgiveness freely to people as if he were replacing the Temple itself with his own work – in all these ways it was clear, and he intended it to be clear, th…
Mark for Everyone - The Last Supper
Mark for Everyone - The Last Supper
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 14.12–25 The Last Supper... ...On my fortieth birthday, my students gave me a surprise party. While I was taking a service in the college chapel, they carefully cleared the papers in my room, decorated it from floor to ceiling, and laid out a magnificent sp…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Last Supper
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Last Supper
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Last Supper Matthew 26.26-35 There is an article in the newspaper today about two families locked in a highly expensive legal battle. It’s all the sadder because they are next-door neighbours. The case turns on the right of one family to keep on the premises what by most peop…
Revelation for Everyone - The Last Three Plagues
Revelation for Everyone - The Last Three Plagues
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Last Three Plagues Revelation 16.10-21 The lunch had been substantial, the meeting was tedious, the room was warm, and the speakers droned on and on. The chairman noticed that one of his colleagues was finally subsiding into slumber. With cruel timing, he waited until the poo…
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Lamb and the Spirit
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Lamb and the Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Lamb and the Spirit John 1.29-34 ‘What I want to know is – what’s that sheep doing there?’ The student had been sick for several days, and I went to visit him. He was in his first year at university, and the whole world of cultural and intellectual enquiry was opening up in f…
Luke for Everyone - The Last Supper
Luke for Everyone - The Last Supper
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Last Supper Luke 22.1-23 When Jesus wanted to give his followers – then and now – a way of understanding what was about to happen to him, he didn’t teach them a theory. Theories about how Jesus’ death dealt with our sins have come and gone throughout church history. Many of t…
Revelation for Everyone - The Lamb's Elite Warrior
Revelation for Everyone - The Lamb's Elite Warrior
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Lamb’s Elite Warriors Revelation 14.1-5 Jesus himself, of course, used this image of the shepherd in the tenth chapter of John’s gospel. And his call to people to ‘follow him’ is one of the most persistent commands he ever issued. One might almost say that, in the gospels, ‘f…
Revelation bible study guide - The Lamb's Elite Warriors
Revelation bible study guide - The Lamb's Elite Warriors
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Lamb’s Elite Warriors Revelation 14: 1-13 On the hill in the distance I could see the little procession, tiny but silhouetted against the sky in the bright Middle-Eastern evening. In my country the sheep are brought from one field to another by people with sticks and dogs. In…
Simply Jesus - The Making of a First-Century Storm