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A Life of Love Thessalonians 4.9-12 ‘I don’t care too much for money,’ sang the Beatles (ironically, just as they were earning millions); ‘Money can’t buy me love.’ Now that is of course true. But ‘love’ is a strange word in most languages, and there are connections between love …

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - A Stumble with a Purpose

by SPCK - N T Wright

A Stumble with a Purpose ROMANS 11.7-15 When Jesus told a story about an older and a younger brother, he was picking up echoes from several powerful stories in the book of Genesis. In Jesus’ own parable in Luke 15, the younger son takes his share of the inheritance, goes off and …

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Abraham is the Father of All Believers

by SPCK - N T Wright

Abraham Is the Father of All Believers ROMANS 4.13-17 I had an angry email today from a Jewish Christian who objected strongly to something I had said, very cautiously, about the current problems in the Middle East. (I lived and worked in Jerusalem some years ago, and I still hav…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Abraham the Father of Both Uncircumcised and Circumcised

by SPCK - N T Wright

Abraham the Father of Both Uncircumcised and Circumcised ROMANS 4.9-12 One of the most solemn moments of a wedding ceremony comes when the bride and groom give or exchange rings. I have taken many weddings in my time. I have also stood there as a proud father for the weddings of …

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Abraham's Faith - and Ours

by SPCK - N T Wright

Abraham’s Faith – and Ours ROMANS 4.18-25 When my family and I emigrated to Canada in the early 1980s, we frequently thought about the early pioneers, arriving in a new and unknown country with no idea what they would find, what the weather would be like, what crops might grow, o…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Abraham's Two Families

by SPCK - N T Wright

Abraham’s Two Families ROMANS 9.6-13 When you walk or drive through unfamiliar territory, you have to rely on the map. It is the bottom line. If you find yourself somewhere you didn’t expect, you scratch your head, get out the map again, and figure out where you went wrong. You m…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Abraham's Two Sons

by SPCK - N T Wright

Abraham’s Two Sons Galatians 4.21-31 Not long ago, there was an international rugby match played in pouring rain. The pitch became muddier and muddier, and the players got dirtier and dirtier. The spectators couldn’t tell which side was which. Then the referee discovered that eve…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Aid for Jerusalem

by SPCK - N T Wright

Aid for Jerusalem ROMANS 15.25-33 I have now translated most of the New Testament for this present series, and I’ve discovered one or two interesting things as I’ve done so. The hardest Greek I have so far faced, without a doubt, is in one particular section of 2 Corinthians, nam…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Apostles on Display

by SPCK - N T Wright

Apostles on Display 1 Corinthians 4.6-13 We walked down the hill in the bright sunshine. This, our guide explained, is where the Roman generals would come when they returned to the city after winning a great victory. They built massive ‘triumphal arches’, some of which are still …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Bearing One Another's Burdens

by SPCK - N T Wright

Bearing One Another’s Burdens Galatians 6.1-5 I was reading the autobiography of a world-famous cricketer. He described how for his first ten years in the game the team he played for never succeeded in winning a major trophy. They had star players, many of them of much better qua…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Beware of Deceivers

by SPCK - N T Wright

Beware of Deceivers Colossians 2.8-12 One of the greatest philosophers of the seventeenth century was John Locke (1632–1704).He rejected several previous schemes of thought and sketched out a way of looking at the world which influenced the thought not only of his native England …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Beware of Divisions

by SPCK - N T Wright

Beware of Divisions! 1 Corinthians 1.10-17 I was woken up early this morning by beautiful birdsong. Right outside my window some little fellow was chirruping, squeaking and whistling like a virtuoso musician showing off before an admiring crowd. Then others joined in. The trees a…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Blessings on the Sovereign God

by SPCK - N T Wright

Blessings on the Sovereign God Ephesians 1.1-3 The most successful tourist attraction to appear in London in recent years is the ‘London Eye’. From a distance it looks like a giant Ferris wheel, but this is no fun-fair ride. For a start, it’s far, far bigger: it rises to 450 feet…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Boasting in the Cross

by SPCK - N T Wright

Boasting in the Cross Galatians 6.11-18 At least half of all the items that come through my letter-box each day are what we loosely call ‘junk mail’. Often I receive letters which, though they may have my name at the top, have in fact been mass-produced by a computer as part of a…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Celebrate in the Lord!

by SPCK - N T Wright

Celebrate in the Lord! 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-heard by the other; a bitter respon…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Chasing on to the Finish

by SPCK - N T Wright

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 first bend, and one of them was …

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Children of God, Led by the Spirit

by SPCK - N T Wright

Children of God, Led by the Spirit ROMANS 8.12-17 Debt is one of the great problems of today’s world. When I was younger, banks didn’t allow many people to run into debt. Credit cards hadn’t been invented. Student loans were not even thought of. Of course, people still got into d…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Children of the Light

by SPCK - N T Wright

Children of the Light Thessalonians 5.1-11 The story is told of a minister who dreamed that he was preaching a sermon, and woke up to find it was true. One can hardly imagine that happening to St Paul – although there is the famous story of the lad who nodded off during one of Pa…

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