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Leaving the State of Sin through Baptism ROMANS 6.1-5 Everybody knows Jesus’ spectacular story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15.11–32). The younger son twists his father’s arm for his share of the property, goes off and spends it all, and comes home, he thinks, in utter disgrace. The…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Life Within Marriage

by SPCK - N T Wright

Life Within Marriage 1 Corinthians 7.1-7 I was staying for a week in the suburbs of an American city where I hadn’t been before. I had some free time lined up, and after a long flight and many hours at a desk I fancied going for a good walk. I asked my host where he would recomme…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Light and Darkness

by SPCK - N T Wright

Light and Darkness Ephesians 5.11-20 When I was studying for my undergraduate degree, which was in Classics, I had an idea for a special project. Keen as I was on music, I wanted to find out what sort of music people played and sang in the first century. I became quite excited ab…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Live Up to Your Calling

by SPCK - N T Wright

Live Up to Your Calling Ephesians 4.1-10 If you buy a new car, what’s the first thing you do? Do you sit down for an hour and read through the manual, to make sure you know every little detail about it before you take to the road? Or do you at once get behind the wheel and go for…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Living Alongside the World

by SPCK - N T Wright

Living Alongside the World ROMANS 12.14-21 The headline said one word, in thick black letters right across the top of the front page: REVENGE. The story was a classic tale of spurned love. A woman whose husband had cheated her and gone off with her best friend had bided her time,…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Living Together in the Messiah

by SPCK - N T Wright

Living Together in the Messiah ROMANS 12.6-13 The seven friends met, as they had arranged, at ten o’clock the next morning. It had been a late night. They had all been excited. Now they were a little apprehensive at how they were going to take the project forward. They had discov…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Looking Back on Life under the Law

by SPCK - N T Wright

Looking Back on Life under the Law ROMANS 7.13-20 Try reading this passage out loud, quickly. Unless you have a very smooth tongue I can guarantee you’ll trip up at some point. I remember this being given to a choirboy to read out in church, in an Advent carol service in fact. Po…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Love, Peace and Thanksgiving

by SPCK - N T Wright

Love, Peace and Thanksgiving Colossians 3.12-17 Here’s the acid test for whether Paul is talking sense or not. Read again through the list of sexual and speech-related misbehaviour in verses 5–9. Then read through verses 12–17. Ask yourself this: supposing there was a town in whi…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Love, the Law and the Coming Day

by SPCK - N T Wright

Love, Law and the Coming Day ROMANS 13.8-14 When I was at boarding school, I often used to wake up early on summer mornings as the daylight came streaming in from four or five o’clock onwards. I often used to think how silly it was not to get up then. Frequently the day would be …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Love: The Bridge to God's Future

by SPCK - N T Wright

Love: The Bridge to God’s Future 1 Corinthians 13.8-13 When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a young man, living with his father Leopold (himself a fine musician) in Vienna, he is said to have played a trick on him from time to time. Young Wolfgang would come home from spending a riot…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Love: The Bridge to God's Future

by SPCK - N T Wright

Love: The Bridge to God’s Future 1 Corinthians 14.1-5 One morning many centuries ago, two builders went off to work. The first walked through the twisting streets of the old town until he came to the little plot of land where he was labouring steadily day by day. He was building …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Male and Female in the Worshipping Church

by SPCK - N T Wright

Male and Female in the Worshipping Church 1 Corinthians 11.2-16 Many years ago I was lecturing as a guest in a college in the United States. After my lecture I was told that several of the students had been studying St Paul; would I be happy to answer questions about particular p…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Many Members, One Body

by SPCK - N T Wright

Many Members, One Body 1 Corinthians 12.12-20 Paul uses one of his most spectacular and famous illustrations in this and the following passage. It would be gilding the lily to introduce it by another one of our own, so we may as well jump straight to the point. But the point isn’…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Marriage and Divorce

by SPCK - N T Wright

Marriage and Divorce 1 Corinthians 7.8-16 Divorce has swept the Western world like a plague. When I was young, nobody I knew, in our street, my school, anywhere, was divorced. There were occasional mentions of marriage breakdown well outside our close family and friends, but it w…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Meat Offered to Idols

by SPCK - N T Wright

Meat Offered to Idols 1 Corinthians 8.1-6 There is a restaurant in Rome which is built around the ruins of an old temple. Two of the pillars are still visible. The restaurant makes a feature of them, and is proud of the ancient origins of the building where they now serve excelle…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Mercy Upon All

by SPCK - N T Wright

Mercy Upon All ROMANS 11.25-32 I have only once knowingly met a man who had committed murder. He grew up in the deep South of the United States, and learnt from an early age to hate all black people and to believe that they were part of a great conspiracy to take over the world a…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Nothing Separate Us from God's Love

by SPCK - N T Wright

Nothing Shall Separate Us from God’s Love ROMANS 8.31-39 Terrible tales emerge from wars, terrorist action, and other violent scenes. Those held hostage in Lebanon in the 1980s tell of more than one occasion when they were taken off, blindfolded, and told they were going to die. …

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Off with the Old, On with the New

by SPCK - N T Wright

Off with the Old, On with the New Ephesians 4.17-24 We couldn’t understand why the agency was being so unhelpful. We had answered the advertisement and were eager to rent the apartment that we had been offered. There were some minor problems, but nothing too difficult to sort out…

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