SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday Holy Week Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday Holy Week Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK WEDNESDAY... ...I remember as a child being fascinated with some really old Russian dolls. Made out of thin wood, they came apart in the middle with a satisfying squeak, revealing a smaller one inside. Then the next, and the next. Eventuall…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday Holy Week Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday Holy Week Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK TUESDAY... ...Two generations ago, J. B. Phillips (best known for his translation of the New Testament) published a little book called Your God Is Too Small. It was a moving appeal for ordinary Christians to lift up their eyes and imaginati…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday Holy Week Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday Holy Week Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK MONDAY... How much did you earn last year? Or, if you don’t earn a regular wage, how much did it cost you to live last year? Think about that sum for a moment. Now imagine that someone who had that amount of money sitting in the bank decide…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Palm Sunday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Palm Sunday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK PALM SUNDAY... ...The guests arrived on time, and soon the party was in full swing. The little nibbles, a whole variety of tasty little morsels, were delicious. The wine sparkled in the glasses. A lovely smell wafted through from the kitche…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 SATURDAY... ...Reports suggest that there are plenty of people today who are so distant from the story of Jesus that they can watch a children’s play about him without realizing what’s going to happen. They are then shocked to the core at the …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 FRIDAY... ...It was late October 1991. The fishing boat Andrea Gail was five hundred miles out into the Atlantic, off the Massachusetts coast. A cold front was moving along the US–Canada border, causing turbulent weather in New England, while …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 THURSDAY... ...I have inherited from my father a splendid old set of nineteenth- century books. (Yes, I had quite a lot of books already, but there is always room for a few more.) This particular set is a collection of writing, and drawing, fr…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 WEDNESDAY... ...James stared at the machine doubtfully. ‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘Looks quite clever, but I can’t see how it can ever actually work.’ His brother, who had spent all winter building the new machine – they were farmers, and neede…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 TUESDAY... ...Mark Twain is reputed to have said that history never repeats itself, but that it often rhymes. In other words, although every event is unique, many events resemble others. They fall into a pattern. Sometimes, looking back along …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 MONDAY... Imagine you are standing on a high hill, overlooking a long valley. In the valley are villages, a river, fields and woods, with a network of small roads winding their way between them all. Now imagine that you can see a car, driving …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 5 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 5 SUNDAY... ...‘Sticks and stones may break my bones,’ goes the old jingle, ‘but words will never hurt me.’ It’s a lie. Don’t believe it. Words are far, far more powerful than anything else. A sword can maim or kill, but only in the crudest of f…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 SATURDAY... ...It happens all the time in spy movies and TV thrillers. Some- one does or says something which, by itself, seems quite unimportant. But the hero, or perhaps the villain, recognizes that this is the sign. This is the moment. He o…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 FRIDAY... ...One of the best sermons I have heard for a long time was an exposition of this passage. It took the theme of the blind man’s cloak. The cloak, the preacher pointed out, was the man’s security. Shade in summer, warmth in winter, it…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Thursday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 THURSDAY... ‘Sorry, you can’t have that seat. It’s already been booked.’ I was frustrated. It was one of my favourite train journeys, past some magnificent scenery. But the train was crowded, and there were hardly any seats on the side where o…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Wednesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 WEDNESDAY... ...‘With these binoculars,’ said the salesman, taking me outside the shop, ‘you can tell the time on the church clock half a mile away. With these ones, though’ (his assistant brought him out another pair), ‘you can lip-read what …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 TUESDAY... ...The building inspector hurried across the road to where the workmen had already got the wall a few feet up from the ground. ‘What are you doing?’ he asked, in some agitation. ‘We’re building this house!’ they replied. ‘Do you hav…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 4 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 4 MONDAY... In the last days of the old regime, the hardest thing for ordinary people in the capital was not knowing who they could trust. The old dictator was still in power, though increasingly weakened by rebellions from inside his country an…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 4 in Lent Year B