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Unclean Desires, Dishonoured Bodies ROMANS 1.24-27 Imagine someone who knows nothing of music coming across a violin bow. It would be very puzzling. It has obviously been carefully made, they might think; but what is it for? It’s too narrow to be a kind of polishing implement; it…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - United Praise under the Messiah's Universal Role

by SPCK - N T Wright

United Praise under the Messiah’s Universal Rule ROMANS 15.7-13 The great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius brought the art of writing symphonies to a new glory. His first six were each splendid in their own way, developing the form which previous composers had used and flooding it …

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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 …

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Unity: Modelled by the Messiah, Encouraged by Scripture

by SPCK - N T Wright

Unity: Modelled by the Messiah, Encouraged by the Scripture ROMANS 15.1-6 We went to Venice last month, and marvelled again at the extraordinary achievement of the people who built that unique city many centuries ago. Just as remarkable, actually, is the achievement of those who …

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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, …

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Warning Signs on the Wrong Road

by SPCK - N T Wright

Warning Signs on the Wrong Road Ephesians 2.1-7 Many years ago, I was staying for a few days in Cape Town, South Africa. Among the people I wanted to meet was an elderly man who lived on the edge of the city, in one of the outer suburbs. We arranged by telephone that I should dri…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Warning: Don't Trust the Flesh

by SPCK - N T Wright

Warning: Don’t Trust in the Flesh Philippians 3.1-6 If you saw a movie advertisement which highlighted the word FLESH, you would know what it meant. Pornography, no doubt. Graphic sexual scenes, quite likely. Or at least that’s what they would want you to think, to try to lure yo…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Warnings Against Compromise

by SPCK - N T Wright

Warnings Against Compromise Galatians 5.7-12 One of the few times I watch television is when I’m travelling, and find myself in a strange place, with my body-clock telling me I should be awake when it’s the middle of the night. Sitting in a hotel room, and wishing I could go to s…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Warnings and Greetings

by SPCK - N T Wright

Warnings and Greetings ROMANS 16.17-24 It had been a difficult meeting. Several complex issues had been on the table, some of them involving delicate political issues, others involving money. It was right at the end of a busy university term, and everyone was tired and inclined t…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - What if the Messiah Wasn't Raised?

by SPCK - N T Wright

What if the Messiah Wasn’t Raised? 1 Corinthians 15.12-19 Robert had longed to play in the school football team. He had watched every game since he had come to the school. He had idolized the players and thought about the different styles of play, the different skills that were n…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - What is the Body For?

by SPCK - N T Wright

What Is the Body For? 1 Corinthians 6.12-20 I once knew a student who never bothered to buy a screwdriver. He had a couple of knives that he used instead, one larger and one smaller; and most of the things he needed to screw or unscrew he could do quite well with the point of one…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - When the Law Arrived: Sinai Looks Back to the Fall

by SPCK - N T Wright

When the Law Arrived: Sinai Looks Back to the Fall ROMANS 7.7-12 The house was quiet when the workmen arrived, and when someone came to the door they assumed it was the owner himself. They had come to install a new alarm system on the doors and windows. The owner had been anxious…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Where the Two Roads Lead

by SPCK - N T Wright

Where the Two Roads Lead ROMANS 6.20-23 One of the things you have to learn when you move house is which roads lead where. I was Christmas shopping the other day in the new town where we have just settled, and as I drove out of a car park I saw a long queue of cars backed up down…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Wisdom for the Rulers

by SPCK - N T Wright

Wisdom for the Rulers Ephesians 3.8-13 There was once a young prince whose distant uncle was king of a great empire. The prince was carefree and happy, neither very rich nor very poor. One day, a great disaster struck. The king, his uncle, was killed in an earthquake, and all the…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Wives and Husbands

by SPCK - N T Wright

Wives and Husbands Ephesians 5.21-33 At the start of the twenty-first century, it has been remarked that it is harder than ever to be a boy. Today, in the supposedly civilized and sophisticated countries of the world, there is growing up a whole generation of young men who feel t…

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