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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Christ the Seed, Christ the Mediator

by SPCK - N T Wright

Christ the Seed, Christ the Mediator Galatians 3.15-22 ‘It’s what he would have wanted.’ How often has that phrase been used to settle an argument, when someone has died and the family are trying to organize the funeral, or the disposal of property, or the appropriate way to brin…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Exhortation to Steadfastness

by SPCK - N T Wright

Exhortation to Steadfastness 2 Thessalonians 2.13-17 ‘Stand firm and hold on tight.’ When did you last hear those words? On an airport bus, perhaps, taking you from the terminal building to the plane. On a boat ferrying passengers across a busy river. On a narrow mountain ledge w…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Final Blessings and Charge

by SPCK - N T Wright

Final Blessings and Charge Thessalonians 5.23-28 When I was ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament, I received many cards and letters wishing me well and assuring me of the prayers and support of family and friends. The one that made the deepest impression on me at the ti…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Final Exhortations

by SPCK - N T Wright

Final Exhortations Thessalonians 5.12-22 We all learn our mother tongues without realizing that there is such a thing as grammar. By the time we are three or four, we are using nouns, verbs, prepositions and the rest to make complex and intricate sentences – just like baby birds …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Final Remarks

by SPCK - N T Wright

Final Remarks 2 Thessalonians 3.14-18 Every parent knows that there are times when a child has to be punished. No parent worthy of the name will want to do so in anger and bitterness. Every true father or mother faces the difficult task of communicating to a child the fact that, …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Freedom in Christ

by SPCK - N T Wright

Freedom in Christ Galatians 5.1-6 The lake freezes over for four months in the winter, to a depth of at least ten feet. People drive not only snowmobiles across it, but even cars and vans. It’s exciting – and also quite convenient – to be able to drive across the water to the vil…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Fruit of the Spirit

by SPCK - N T Wright

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 multicoloured decorations. Every shop seemed to have sparkling trees, …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Glossary

by SPCK - N T Wright

GLOSSARY apostle, disciple ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul sees not only himself but several others outside the Twelve as ‘…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - God's Promise and Abraham's faith

by SPCK - N T Wright

God’s Promise and Abraham’s Faith Galatians 3.1-9 A famous story tells of the tight-rope walker Charles Blondin (1824–97), who set up a rope across Niagara Falls and walked across several times. So confident did he become that he made the journey backwards as well as forwards, an…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Greetings and Thanksgiving

by SPCK - N T Wright

Greetings and Thanksgiving 2 Thessalonians 1.1-7a When our four children were younger, we had to spend Christmas Day taking notes. Once the four of them began to open presents from friends and relatives, there was so much paper and string around, and so many toys, books and games…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Instructions on Holy Living

by SPCK - N T Wright

Instructions on Holy Living Thessalonians 4.1-8 St Francis, famously, referred to his own body as ‘brother donkey’. It was a beloved part of himself, and yet it often seemed to have a mind of its own. It needed taming, bringing into obedience, as one would teach a large and heads…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Introduction

by SPCK - N T Wright

INTRODUCTION On the very first occasion when someone stood up in public to tell people about Jesus, he made it very clear: this message is for everyone. It was a great day – sometimes called the birthday of the church. The great wind of God’s spirit had swept through Jesus’ follo…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Justified by Faith, Not Works of Law

by SPCK - N T Wright

Justified by Faith, Not Works of Law Galatians 2.15-21 A well-known story is told of Margaret Thatcher during the time she was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She was visiting an old people’s home, going from room to room and meeting senior citizens who had lived there a lo…

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