Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Unity in Everything
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Unity in Everything
by SPCK - N T Wright
Unity in Everything Philippians 2.1-4 We sat and watched spellbound as the actors moved at what seemed like the speed of light. It was a complex and intricate play, with many layers and double or treble meanings. At times things were happening so fast, all around the stage, that …
Revelation bible study guide - Two Monsters
Revelation bible study guide - Two Monsters
by SPCK - N T Wright
Two Monsters Revelation 13 A parody is what you get when someone produces a fake which looks real but isn’t. Sometimes this is done deliberately, for comic effect, as when people turn a Shakespeare tragedy like Hamlet into a short, funny skit, or play a Mozart symphony on kazoos …
Revelation bible study guide - Two Witnesses and a Song of Triumph
Revelation bible study guide - Two Witnesses and a Song of Triumph
by SPCK - N T Wright
Two Witnesses and a Song of Triumph Revelation 11 People find many books puzzling, but the Bible is often the most puzzling of all. People find many parts of the Bible puzzling, but Revelation is often seen as the most puzzling book of all. And people find Revelation puzzling, bu…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Watch Out for Yourselves, the Flock and the Wolves
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Watch Out for Yourselves, the Flock and the Wolves
by SPCK - N T Wright
Watch Out for Yourselves, the Flock and the Wolves Acts 20.28-38 ‘I received an email this morning from a man I have never met. He has been studying a particular subject, and has come upon an article I wrote 25 years ago. In it, I quote a line from the scholar I was discussing (E…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - We Have Ways of Keeping You Safe
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - We Have Ways of Keeping You Safe
by SPCK - N T Wright
We Have Ways of Keeping You Safe Acts 23.23-35 Richard Adams’ celebrated novel Watership Down draws the reader into the dramatic and complicated world of a group of rabbits. We follow with increasing sympathy and fascination as Hazel and his companions go on their journey. (Adams…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 1 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 1: FRIDAY... ...I suspect, of course, that if we’d sat these poets down in a cool, easy moment and asked them, ‘Did you really think God was asleep?’, they might have said, ‘Well, no; he is God, after all; but it certainly seemed as though he’d …
Luke for Everyone - Watching for the Son of Man
Luke for Everyone - Watching for the Son of Man
by SPCK - N T Wright
Watching for the Son of Man Luke 21.34-38 Travel with me, back in time, to Jerusalem. The year is AD 58, nearly thirty years after Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Many people in the holy city came to believe in Jesus in the heady days nearly a generation ago, and many of the…
Mark for Everyone - Watching for the Son of Man
Mark for Everyone - Watching for the Son of Man
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 13.28–37 Watching for the Son of Man... ...Most modern Western houses don’t have a doorkeeper. It’s up to the owners to lock up, and perhaps set burglar alarms. But in some big cities, over the last few years, there has been quite a change. Many people now …
John for Everyone Part 1 - Water into Wine
John for Everyone Part 1 - Water into Wine
by SPCK - N T Wright
Water into Wine John 2.1-12 One of the first events I ever organized was a treasure hunt. It was during the school holidays, when I was about ten or eleven. I invited all my friends from neighbouring houses and streets to come and join in. With my mother’s careful help, I planned…
The Pastoral Letters - Watch Out For Disputes and Divisions
The Pastoral Letters - Watch Out For Disputes and Divisions
by SPCK - N T Wright
Watch Out for Disputes and Divisions Titus 3.8b-15 We received a charming wedding invitation today. In it, the young couple, both of whom are already working full time in the church, insisted that they didn’t want ordinary presents. Instead, they urged guests who wanted to do so …
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Wednesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: WEDNESDAY Matthew 11; focused on 11.1–19 Jesus is here being put on the spot. Today, when interviewers try to force politicians to say things they didn’t really want to let out, they tend to prevaricate, to ignore the question, or even to tell downright lies. We have pri…
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
Lent for Everyone Year A - Tuesday: Second Week in Lent Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
WEEK 2: TUESDAY Matthew 10.16 – 42; focused on 10.16 –25 Let’s stand on the edge of the crowd and listen as Jesus gives his twelve disciples these next instructions. Some of the Twelve are looking decidedly uncomfortable, but there’s nothing they can do about it. Jesus has called…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Second Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Second Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 2: WEDNESDAY... ...People sometimes have the idea that the world of the Bible is rather like the world of some old churches: quiet, serious, a bit old-fashioned, with nobody ever doing or saying anything to shock or frighten people. Sometimes, i…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Second Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Second Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 2: TUESDAY... ...I watched the bird take off from the field and, rising quickly into the sky, float and soar on the afternoon breeze. It was free, and expressing that freedom with a kind of light-hearted joy. I wondered, reading this story at th…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Second Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Second Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 2: THURSDAY... ...The true test of a pastor comes not in the set-piece events (big services, regular fellowship groups, the weekly Bible study) but in the unforeseen, unprepared moments. Especially the ones which, frankly, you not only hadn’t pl…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 2 In Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 2 In Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 2: SATURDAY... ...I checked my watch once more, and looked again in my diary. Yes: this was indeed the place we had agreed to meet. And this really was the time we had set. But where was my guest? It was only then that I noticed a man standing o…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 2 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 2 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 2: MONDAY... ...When Bertrand Russell wrote his famous book, Why I am Not a Christian, he listed various things about the life of Jesus which, he said, put him off. One was the story of Jesus cursing the fig tree (Mark 11.12–14, 20 –24). Another…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 2 in Lent Year B