2 Corinthians - New creation, New Ministry
2 Corinthians - New creation, New Ministry
by SPCK - N T Wright
New Creation, New Ministry 2 CORINTHIANS 5. 16-6.2 When a new world is born, a new way of living goes with it. This is true in so many stages of life. It is true when a couple have their first baby; a whole new chapter has opened in their lives, and nothing will be the same again…
John for Everyone part 2 - Mary and her Ointment
John for Everyone part 2 - Mary and her Ointment
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mary and her Ointment John 12.1-8 I always hate it when, in a movie or a novel, a social event suddenly becomes tense and fraught. People who write novels and screenplays seem to like them: anger and bitterness bubbling to the surface, family members losing their tempers with eac…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Dance and Slaughter
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Dance and Slaughter
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Dance and Slaughter Psalm 148-149 As a teenager, I did not learn to dance or to shoot a gun for different reasons. I didn’t learn to dance because my church regarded dancing as “worldly”; it wasn’t appropriate to people who were really committed to God. I didn’t learn to shoot be…
John for Everyone part 2 - Your Heart Will Rejoice
John for Everyone part 2 - Your Heart Will Rejoice
by SPCK - N T Wright
Your Hearts Will Rejoice John 16.12-22 How do you talk about things that are not just out of the ordinary but that take you into a whole new world? One way of doing it is through music. That’s why some of the greatest songs are love poems. Faced with the glory and thrill of human…
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - The Low Murmuring Sound
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - The Low Murmuring Sound
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Low Murmuring Sound 1 Kings 19:1-21 I am inclined to think that nothing I do in seeking to fulfill my vocation achieves anything. My vocation is to help people understand the Old Testament and let their thinking and their lives be shaped by it. I am passionately committed to …
Drama: The Vine
Drama: The Vine
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama: The Vine On stage one figure, ‘the vine’, stands centrally with arms raised. Other people – as many as you like, but at least five – are attached to the central figure in lines on either side, by holding hands, or belts, or green ribbons. Each figure should have leaves and…
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Bridegroom and His Friend
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Bridegroom and His Friend
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Bridegroom and His Friend John 3.22-36 Millions of television viewers around the world remember the moment when Lady Diana Spencer got the words wrong in her marriage to Prince Charles. It wasn’t a serious mistake – her husband had rather a lot of names, and she got two of th…
Hebrews for Everyone - Outside the Old City, Seeking the New
Hebrews for Everyone - Outside the Old City, Seeking the New
by SPCK - N T Wright
Outside the Old City, Seeking the New Hebrews 13.9-16 I mentioned earlier that I had been reading the diary of a clergyman who had been a prisoner of war from 1940 to 1945. It was both fascinating and frustrating. Fascinating as a firsthand, day-by-day account of the life such pe…
Hebrews for Everyone - The Practical Life of God's People
Hebrews for Everyone - The Practical Life of God's People
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Practical Life of God’s People Hebrews 13.1-8 ‘Sex, power, money, suffering. Tomorrow morning’s newspaper will be full of it; it’s what sells, it’s what some people think makes the world go round. Meanwhile, you can look through the newspaper from end to end for a mention of …
Luke for Everyone - Jesus and the Pharisee
Luke for Everyone - Jesus and the Pharisee
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus and the Pharisee Luke 14.1-11 Luke’s gospel has more meal-time scenes than all the others. If his vision of the Christian life, from one point of view, is a journey, from another point of view it’s a party. Several stories end with a festive meal – like, for instance, the p…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Third Sunday Before Advent Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Third Sunday Before Advent Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Third Sunday Before Advent Job 19.23–7a 2 Thessalonians 2.1–5, 13–17 Luke 20.27–38 The book of Job has always inspired strong feelings – hardly surprising, as its themes are suffering and justice. At the heart of the many paradoxes that belief in the God of the Bible presents…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Parable of the Weeds Explained