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Paul’s Reasons for Thanks Philippians 1.1-11 . There is a wonderful old prayer attributed to the sixteenth century sailor Sir Francis Drake (1540–96).He prays that when God leads us to undertake any great piece of work, he will also remind us ‘that it is not the beginning, but th…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Paul's Words of Blessing

by SPCK - N T Wright

Paul’s Words of Blessing Thessalonians 3.11-13 Prayer and music have always gone together in the Christian church, and another musical illustration may help us find ways of making Paul’s prayers our own. When children begin to learn a musical instrument, or to sing, the teacher o…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Peace and Hope

by SPCK - N T Wright

Peace and Hope ROMANS 5.1-5 I recently heard of a famous comedian who had been a familiar figure on radio and television for many years. His quick wit and endless supply of jokes guaranteed him a big audience. But when he died, the published obituaries told a darker story as well…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Practical Support in the Church

by SPCK - N T Wright

Practical Support in the Church Galatians 6.6-10 For some years I helped to organize a fund-raising campaign for a church. It was a good cause, lots of people wanted to help, there was great enthusiasm and initiative, and eventually the money was raised. But I found it one of the…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Prayer and Peace

by SPCK - N T Wright

Prayer and Peace Ephesians 6.18-24 Imagine an eagle with clipped wings. Imagine a great oceangoing liner stuck in the Sahara sands. Imagine a basketball player with his ankles tied together. Imagine a railway locomotive in a ploughed field. Now imagine an ambassador wearing chain…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Prayer for Wisdom and Gratitude

by SPCK - N T Wright

Prayer for Wisdom and Gratitude Colossians 1.9-14 We watched, holding our breath, as the mother duck left the pond at the head of her brood. There were seven ducklings in all: four black ones and three yellow ones. They were lively and squeaky, scuttling to and fro. For days they…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Prayer, Sonship and the Sovereignty of God

by SPCK - N T Wright

Prayer, Sonship and the Sovereignty of God ROMANS 8.26-30 How many names can you think of for God? It may sound an odd question. God’s proper name in the Old Testament is of course YHWH; but he is referred to in a great many other ways as well, such as ‘the Almighty’, the Holy On…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Praying with the Mind as Well as Spirit

by SPCK - N T Wright

Praying with Mind as Well as Spirit 1 Corinthians 14.13-19 Paul for Everyone When you look at another person, what do you see? I don’t mean what shape, what colour, what size of person are you looking at; I mean, how do you think about who they are? How do you observe them as a w…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Puffed Up or Powerful

by SPCK - N T Wright

Puffed Up or Powerful 1 Corinthians 4.14-21 We all know the difference between talk and power. Imagine you are driving along a road, without worrying too much about how fast you’re going. All of a sudden a large car with flashing lights overtakes you and motions you to pull over.…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Recognizing the Body

by SPCK - N T Wright

Recognizing the Body 1 Corinthians 11.23-34 I once witnessed a moving reconciliation scene, and the most moving thing about it was that no words were necessary. A lay minister had been storing up resentments against the clergyman who was the senior pastor in the church where they…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Reconciled and Firm in Faith

by SPCK - N T Wright

Reconciled and Firm in Faith Colossians 1.21-23 People come from all over the world to see it, but I would have been just as happy to stay away. On the edge of Minneapolis, in the United States, is a shopping centre so vast that there is room for an entire fun-fair in the middle …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Redeemed from the Law's Curse

by SPCK - N T Wright

Redeemed from the Law’s Curse Galatians 3.10-14 I sat in the traffic jam for two hours. The road signs told me I was pointing in the right direction. From what I knew of the road it looked as though I was in the right place. But nothing was moving. The clock ticked slowly on; I w…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Requests for Prayer

by SPCK - N T Wright

Requests for Prayer 2 Thessalonians 3.1-5 Among all the strange dreams that visit us at night, one of the most frustrating – which happens to me quite frequently – is the dream of trying to run and discovering that it’s impossible to do so. My legs feel like lead: they become hop…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Respecting Weak Consciences

by SPCK - N T Wright

Respecting Weak Consciences 1 Corinthians 8.7-13 I never found out what had really been wrong, but it could have been serious. I was leading a party of walkers in the Scottish highlands, and we found ourselves high up among the crags when the mist came down. I got out the compass…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Resurrection Gives Meaning to Present Christian Life

by SPCK - N T Wright

Resurrection Gives Meaning to Present Christian Living 1 Corinthians 15.29-34 We stood in the great Coliseum in Rome, and stared at the chambers and passages underneath where the floor would have been. ‘This is where they kept the wild animals,’ our guide said. ‘They used ropes a…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Rich and Poor at the Table of the Lord

by SPCK - N T Wright

Rich and Poor at the Table of the Lord 1 Corinthians 11.17-22 The school groundsman was working to get the sports field ready for the big match the next day. The same pitch had been used for both hockey and football, and he needed to be sure that it was now marked out afresh with…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Scandal and Judgment

by SPCK - N T Wright

Scandal and Judgment 1 Corinthians 5.1-5 When I was a boy, studying Greek and Latin classics, the texts we were given to study often had bits cut out. There were lines missing from poems, and sometimes entire sections; in one case (in the Roman writer Juvenal, I recall) a whole p…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Signs for Believers and Unbelievers

by SPCK - N T Wright

Signs for Believers and Unbelievers 1 Corinthians 14.20-25 ‘We need to take an adult attitude to this . . .’ ‘Of course, if we are to approach the problem as adults . . .’ ‘Since we’re all adults here, perhaps I could say . . . ’ What do you think these people are talking about? …

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