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Life Within Marriage 1 Corinthians 7.1-7 I was staying for a week in the suburbs of an American city where I hadn’t been before. I had some free time lined up, and after a long flight and many hours at a desk I fancied going for a good walk. I asked my host where he would recomme…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Love: The Bridge to God's Future

by SPCK - N T Wright

Love: The Bridge to God’s Future 1 Corinthians 13.8-13 When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a young man, living with his father Leopold (himself a fine musician) in Vienna, he is said to have played a trick on him from time to time. Young Wolfgang would come home from spending a riot…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Love: The Bridge to God's Future

by SPCK - N T Wright

Love: The Bridge to God’s Future 1 Corinthians 14.1-5 One morning many centuries ago, two builders went off to work. The first walked through the twisting streets of the old town until he came to the little plot of land where he was labouring steadily day by day. He was building …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Male and Female in the Worshipping Church

by SPCK - N T Wright

Male and Female in the Worshipping Church 1 Corinthians 11.2-16 Many years ago I was lecturing as a guest in a college in the United States. After my lecture I was told that several of the students had been studying St Paul; would I be happy to answer questions about particular p…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Many Members, One Body

by SPCK - N T Wright

Many Members, One Body 1 Corinthians 12.12-20 Paul uses one of his most spectacular and famous illustrations in this and the following passage. It would be gilding the lily to introduce it by another one of our own, so we may as well jump straight to the point. But the point isn’…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Marriage and Divorce

by SPCK - N T Wright

Marriage and Divorce 1 Corinthians 7.8-16 Divorce has swept the Western world like a plague. When I was young, nobody I knew, in our street, my school, anywhere, was divorced. There were occasional mentions of marriage breakdown well outside our close family and friends, but it w…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Meat Offered to Idols

by SPCK - N T Wright

Meat Offered to Idols 1 Corinthians 8.1-6 There is a restaurant in Rome which is built around the ruins of an old temple. Two of the pillars are still visible. The restaurant makes a feature of them, and is proud of the ancient origins of the building where they now serve excelle…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - On Remaining Unmarried

by SPCK - N T Wright

On Remaining Unmarried 1 Corinthians 7.25-31 I remember a cartoon from my childhood days. A young man sits in an office. He is talking on the telephone, but standing beside him is a huge figure with a bristling moustache, staring at him angrily: obviously the boss. The young man …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Praying with the Mind as Well as Spirit

by SPCK - N T Wright

Praying with Mind as Well as Spirit 1 Corinthians 14.13-19 Paul for Everyone When you look at another person, what do you see? I don’t mean what shape, what colour, what size of person are you looking at; I mean, how do you think about who they are? How do you observe them as a w…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Puffed Up or Powerful

by SPCK - N T Wright

Puffed Up or Powerful 1 Corinthians 4.14-21 We all know the difference between talk and power. Imagine you are driving along a road, without worrying too much about how fast you’re going. All of a sudden a large car with flashing lights overtakes you and motions you to pull over.…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Recognizing the Body

by SPCK - N T Wright

Recognizing the Body 1 Corinthians 11.23-34 I once witnessed a moving reconciliation scene, and the most moving thing about it was that no words were necessary. A lay minister had been storing up resentments against the clergyman who was the senior pastor in the church where they…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Respecting Weak Consciences

by SPCK - N T Wright

Respecting Weak Consciences 1 Corinthians 8.7-13 I never found out what had really been wrong, but it could have been serious. I was leading a party of walkers in the Scottish highlands, and we found ourselves high up among the crags when the mist came down. I got out the compass…

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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…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Rich and Poor at the Table of the Lord

by SPCK - N T Wright

Rich and Poor at the Table of the Lord 1 Corinthians 11.17-22 The school groundsman was working to get the sports field ready for the big match the next day. The same pitch had been used for both hockey and football, and he needed to be sure that it was now marked out afresh with…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Scandal and Judgment

by SPCK - N T Wright

Scandal and Judgment 1 Corinthians 5.1-5 When I was a boy, studying Greek and Latin classics, the texts we were given to study often had bits cut out. There were lines missing from poems, and sometimes entire sections; in one case (in the Roman writer Juvenal, I recall) a whole p…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Signs for Believers and Unbelievers

by SPCK - N T Wright

Signs for Believers and Unbelievers 1 Corinthians 14.20-25 ‘We need to take an adult attitude to this . . .’ ‘Of course, if we are to approach the problem as adults . . .’ ‘Since we’re all adults here, perhaps I could say . . . ’ What do you think these people are talking about? …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Speaking Clearly in Church

by SPCK - N T Wright

Speaking Clearly in Church 1 Corinthians 14.6-12 Two days ago I went to a meeting where seven or eight different languages were used in quick succession. There was a large crowd being addressed, including people from many parts of the world. One by one the speakers got up and spo…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Spiritual or Merely Human?

by SPCK - N T Wright

Spiritual or Merely Human? 1 Corinthians 2.14-3.4 Once, during the ‘hippy’ era in the late 1960s, I sang and played my guitar in a folk club on the west side of Vancouver. I was there a week, and got to know some of the other regular performers quite well. One was a young man wit…

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