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2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF BUILDING A CHRISTIAN CHARACTER 2 Peter 1: 1-11 My grandson, aged one and a half, was taken the other day into a big toyshop. It was a riot of exciting things, all in bright colours. From floor to ceiling, from one end of the shop to the other, and…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Chasing On To The Finish

by SPCK - N T Wright

4 THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE CHASING ON TO THE FINISH Philippians 3: 12-16 The athletics match had reached a critical stage. One of the final races was left to be run: the 440 yards (the old version of today’s 400 metres). The athletes were bunched together as they came to the firs…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Creation Renewed

by SPCK - N T Wright

5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD CREATION RENEWED Romans 8: 18-25 I walked through the wood several times before I realized what the signpost meant. The wood was thick, with paths leading this way and that. I knew some of them quite well, and had my favourites among them. There was the…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Do Not Worry

by SPCK - N T Wright

4 THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE DO NOT WORRY Matthew 6: 25-34 Has it ever struck you what a basically happy person Jesus was? Oh yes, we know that, according to the prophecies, he was ‘a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief ’. We know that the darkness and sadness of all the world…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Dying and Rising With Christ

by SPCK - N T Wright

2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF DYING AND RISING WITH CHRIST Colossians 2: 20- 3: 4 ‘I’ll just be two minutes,’ I said, leaving my friends on the street corner while I went to fetch the car. It was raining, and we’d just come out of the theatre. But I wasn’t two minutes. I took …

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Everything Belongs To You

by SPCK - N T Wright

1 THE WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT EVERYTHING BELONGS TO YOU 1 Corinthians 3: 18-23 I remember a wise address given at a graduation ceremony by a respected senior professor. (I was present in order to say the opening prayer.) In his address, the great man said many things, and gave a lot…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Fruit of the Spirit

by SPCK - N T Wright

2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5: 22-26 The Christmas decorations were spectacular. I went down the street from store to store, and in each window – and indeed in the street itself – there were pretty lights and multi-coloured decorations. Every sh…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God Is Love

by SPCK - N T Wright

3 THE GREAEST OF THE VIRTUES GOD IS LOVE 1 John 4: 7-21 God is love; those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. 17This is what makes love complete for us, so that we may have boldness and confidence on the day of judgment, because just as he is, so are we withi…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God's Patience

by SPCK - N T Wright

5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD GOD’S PATIENCE 2 Peter 3: 11-18 By the time 2 Peter was written, Paul’s letters had already been circulating for some while in many of the churches, both in Turkey and Greece (where all of Paul’s letters except Romans were addressed), and possibly furth…

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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. …

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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…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Godliness and Contentment

by SPCK - N T Wright

5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD GODLINESS AND CONTENTMENT 1 Timothy 6: 6-10 It is hardly an exaggeration to say that this famous passage is an indictment of modern Western culture. Never before in history has there been such a restless pursuit of riches, by more and more highly develo…

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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…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - It's Easy To Get Lost

by SPCK - N T Wright

4 THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE IT’S EASY TO GET LOST 2 Peter 2: 1-10a ‘I told you it was easy to get lost.’ Our host stood on the doorstep with a wry smile on his face. We had assumed we more or less knew the way. We have a good sense of direction. We had even been there before; sure…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Joy and Peace in God

by SPCK - N T Wright

2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF JOY AND PEACE WITH GOD Philippians 4: 2-9 You never know when it’s going to happen. Two people who one day are good friends, working alongside each other in the church or community, can suddenly get across each other. A sharp word from one, half-h…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Looking To Jesus

by SPCK - N T Wright

4 THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE LOOKING TO JESUS Hebrews 12: 1-3 I went to a school that prided itself on its outdoor pursuits. Set high in the Yorkshire Dales in north-west England, it celebrated its location in several ways, the annual climax being a ten-mile cross-country race over…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Love One Another

by SPCK - N T Wright

3 THE GREAEST OF THE VIRTUES LOVE ONE ANOTHER John 15: 9-17 Like an innocent child wandering by itself into a kitchen and pressing the switches that will set the house on fire, some biblical texts have been taken out of their original setting and used in ways that would have horr…

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New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Off With The Old, On With The New

by SPCK - N T Wright

2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF OFF WITH THE OLD, ON WITH THE NEW Ephesians 4: 17-24 We couldn’t understand why the agency was being so unhelpful. We had answered the advertisement and were eager to rent the apartment that we had been offered. There were some minor problems, but…

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