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The Sending of Timothy Thessalonians 3.1-5 The young adult daughter of some friends of ours went on a trip round the world, and was so enjoying life that, at one stage, she didn’t phone home for several weeks. Her parents had no way of getting in touch, and were beside themselves…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Son and the Spirit

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Son and the Spirit Galatians 4.1-7 If you’ve ever tried to write a story, you have probably discovered that your characters get themselves into muddles from which it’s quite hard to get them out. Several nineteenth-century novelists faced this problem, often with heroes and h…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Table of the Lord and the Table of Demons

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Table of the Lord and the Table of Demons 1 Corinthians 10.14-22 ‘Christianity’, declared the great Archbishop William Temple, ‘is the most materialistic of all religions.’ He had in mind the commitment of genuine Christianity to the faith that God really became human in Jesu…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Thessalonians' Faith

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Thessalonians’ Faith Thessalonians 1.6-10 ‘Well,’ I said last week when my son came home from a movie, ‘did you enjoy it?’ I knew the answer as I asked the question. The movie was OK, but not that great. If he’d really enjoyed it, I wouldn’t have had to ask. He would have com…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Transformed Resurrection Body

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Transformed Resurrection Body 1 Corinthians 15.35-49 Imagine standing outside a car showroom, a hundred or more years from now. An advertisement has brought you and lots of others to see a new type of car. Different from all that went before, the slogan had said. ‘Looks prett…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Triumphant Reign of Grace

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Triumphant Reign of Grace ROMANS 5.18-21 God has done it; God will do it. That is the message of this dramatic little passage, summing up the whole story of the letter so far. That might sound strange, since the word ‘God’ doesn’t occur in these verses. But what Paul has done…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The True God and the False Gods

by SPCK - N T Wright

The True God and the False Gods Galatians 4.8-11 The whale is one of the greatest sights in the animal kingdom. To go out on a small boat, to wait perhaps for hours, and then to see one of these magnificent creatures come to the surface, or even leap from the water – few can resi…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Two Olive Trees

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Two Olive Trees ROMANS 11.16-24 ‘This place isn’t big enough for both of us!’ We’ve all heard it, or perhaps even said it. Sometimes it’s in an office where two managers are both wanting their plans to go ahead. Sometimes it’s in a sports team where two players both want to b…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Two Types of Slavery

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Two Types of Slavery ROMANS 6.15-19 One of our newspaper columnists came up with a bright idea for achieving two purposes at once. British society (in common with many others in the Western world) is facing a worrying rise in youth crime. Many young people have no jobs, no pu…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Unveiling of God's Covenant Justice

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Unveiling of God’s Covenant Justice ROMANS 3.21-24 There are many plays and movies which turn, often at the last minute, on a sudden intervention. Someone arrives, perhaps galloping in on horseback into a trial or a wedding or a lynching, bringing news of a reprieve, or a mes…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Way of Love and Peace

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Way of Love and Peace ROMANS 14.13-23 The snow was heavy that night – so heavy that by the time they opened the curtains they could only just see the top of the garden gate. There must have been at least three feet of the stuff. At the breakfast table, the son reminded his fa…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Weak and the Strong

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Weak and the Strong ROMANS 14.1-6 We have a friend whose son is a vegetarian. She was describing to us today how she has learned to cook special meals for him – and what sort of compromises with the code he has been prepared to make. In today’s Western world, vegetarianism ha…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Work of the Spirit

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Work of the Spirit ROMANS 8.5-11 Imagine rummaging around in an old attic and coming upon what looks like a standard lamp. It has a very strange type of bulb, but an elegant stem; and the shade, though a bit dusty, is quite attractive. You bring it down into the house and con…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Timothy and Apollos

by SPCK - N T Wright

Timothy and Apollos 1 Corinthians 16.10-14 I have a vivid memory of the first time I stood up in front of a group of people to make an announcement. It was at school, and I had been given responsibility for organizing something; and suddenly the room went quiet, everybody was loo…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Timothy's Report

by SPCK - N T Wright

Timothy’s Report Thessalonians 3.6-10 Learning to read Paul is a bit like learning to enjoy great music. It’s quite easy to whistle a tune that you’ve heard on the radio or sung in church. The tune probably only lasts for ten seconds or so, and you can recognize and remember it. …

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - To God Be the Glory

by SPCK - N T Wright

To God Be the Glory ROMANS 11.33-36 I was taken yesterday to see the site of a new bridge across a river. We parked the car in a grassy wood and set off to walk. The trees were quite thick to begin with, and I couldn’t see the river, though I could hear it. I assumed the bridge w…

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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…

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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…

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