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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Choice and the Plan
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Choice and the Plan
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Choice and the Plan Ephesians 1.4-10 Have you noticed how sometimes you have a story in the back of your mind which keeps peeping out even when you’re talking about something else? Imagine you’ve come back from work and the train has been late again. You stood for half an hou…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Christian Household
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Christian Household
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Christian Household Colossians 3.18-4.1 There was once a country ruled by a strict and severe president. He made laws about everything and enforced them rigidly. He laid down what time people were to get up and go to bed. He told them what food they should eat and how to cook…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Dying and the Rising with Christ
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Dying and the Rising with Christ
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Dying and the 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 more like ten. They were sta…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Fellowship of Prayer
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Fellowship of Prayer
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Fellowship of Prayer Colossians 4.2-9 The best teachers make sure they get their pupils to take on some responsibility of their own. It’s a lesson some never learn, in school, in church, or in the home. Most people, from quite small children upwards, are ready to rise to the …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Gospel in Public
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Gospel in Public
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Gospel in Public Philippians 1.27-30 ‘Don’t let him see you’re afraid.’ My aunt hissed the words into my ear as the big dog came bounding up the street towards us. It seemed silly advice at the time. I was afraid. I was only seven years old and the previous year a small dog h…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Gospel in Public
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Gospel in Public
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Gospel in Public Philippians 1.27-30 ‘Don’t let him see you’re afraid.’ My aunt hissed the words into my ear as the big dog came bounding up the street towards us. It seemed silly advice at the time. I was afraid. I was only seven years old and the previous year a small dog h…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Hidden Secret
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Hidden Secret
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Hidden Secret Philippians 4.10-13 It was very dark and gloomy that March. There was still snow in the air, and sometimes on the ground, until mid-way through the month. The sun seemed hardly to peer out from behind grey clouds, and a sharp north-easterly wind blew in off the …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Inheritance and the Spirit
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Inheritance and the Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Inheritance and the Spirit Ephesians 1.11-14 Not far from where I was born there is an ancient castle. It stands imposingly, high above the banks of a river, defying anyone to attack it. These days, the likely attacks come from bank managers and tax-collectors rather than mar…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Kindness that Imitates God Himself
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Kindness that Imitates God Himself
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Kindness that Imitates God Himself Ephesians 4.25-5.2 The best-known literary figure in eighteenth-century England was Dr Samuel Johnson. A native of Lichfield in Staffordshire, he spent most of his adult life in London. He wrote many works, especially his famous Dictionary a…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The King is Proclaimed
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The King is Proclaimed
by SPCK - N T Wright
The King is Proclaimed Philippians 1.12-18a One of the most dramatic stories anywhere in ancient literature is that of Joseph, the second youngest son of the patriarch Jacob. His father spoiled him rotten, and his older brothers were jealous. They wanted to kill him, then they de…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The King, Living within You
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The King, Living within You
by SPCK - N T Wright
The King, Living within You Colossians 1.24-29 If trees could talk, imagine the sort of conversation that might go on. Here is an old, weathered and seasoned oak tree, talking to the small sapling that’s just started to grow up nearby. ‘Soon it will be autumn, and the winds will …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Law and the Cross
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Law and the Cross
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Law and the Cross Colossians 2.13-19 The crowd was already angry, and it got angrier as we watched. They had come together to protest about the shooting down of a Korean jumbo jet over the southwest Pacific. Most of them had lost relatives or friends in the disaster. And, whe…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Mind of the Messiah
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Mind of the Messiah
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Mind of the Messiah When people in the ancient world thought of heroic leaders, rulers and kings they often thought of Alexander the Great (356–323 BC). At the age of 20 he succeeded his father Philip to the throne of Macedonia, quickly made himself master of all Greece, and …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - To Live or to Die?
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - To Live or to Die?
by SPCK - N T Wright
To Live or to Die? Philippians 1.18b-26 One of the great questions that people have asked throughout human history, and still address particularly to religious leaders, is this: where do we go when we die? Until recently, most people in what used to be the Christian Western world…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Two into One Will Go
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Two into One Will Go
by SPCK - N T Wright
Two into One Will Go Ephesians 2.11-16 We lived for four years by the banks of the Ottawa river, north-west of Montreal. It is a great river, already over 400 miles long by the time it passed our village. By the time it reached us it was over a mile wide. Not far downstream, howe…
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 …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Unveiling the New Temple
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Unveiling the New Temple
by SPCK - N T Wright
Unveiling the New Temple Ephesians 2.17-22 One of the greatest worldwide problems of our time is the plight of refugees and asylum-seekers. People in the West sometimes try to pretend that the world is now a civilized place where most people can go about their business in peace, …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Warning Signs on the Wrong Road