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Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Mocked on the Cross
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Mocked on the Cross
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus Mocked on the Cross Matthew 27.39-44 A friend of mine was leading a party of explorers through underground caverns and tunnels. They had trained for this expedition and knew the way. Not all the caves had been explored before, and my friend was convinced that there was a wa…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Before Caiaphas
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Before Caiaphas
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus Before Caiaphas Matthew 26.57-68 Have you ever watched two people speaking to each other in different languages, neither understanding the other? Sometimes it’s funny, and effective. I remember watching with surprise and delight as my daughter, aged about five, played on ho…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Arrested
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Arrested
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus is Arrested Matthew 26.47-56 A radio station telephoned me, and before I knew what was happening I found myself talking, live, to a large and invisible audience. A leading Muslim writer in Britain had been urging the Government to tighten up the blasphemy laws – the laws th…
Mark for Everyone - Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany
Mark for Everyone - Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 14.1–11... ...If the storm clouds are gathering over Jerusalem in chapter 13, in chapter 14 they are coming together over the head of Jesus himself. The parallel between the two is important: the fate Jesus has predicted for the Temple (destruction at the h…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Passover and Betrayal
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Passover and Betrayal
by SPCK - N T Wright
Passover and Betrayal Matthew 26.14-25 ‘And I thought you were my friend!’ The words were meant to sting, and they did. I looked from one man to the other. The meeting had collapsed into bitter accusations, and this was the final one. The speaker got up from his chair and went ov…
Mark for Everyone - The Crucifixion
Mark for Everyone - The Crucifixion
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 15.16–32 The Crucifixion... ...Peacekeeping forces, which have become a regular feature of our world, often have to contain themselves in the face of severe local provocation. They can easily build up a backlog of resentment and anger against the people who…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Death of God's Son
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Death of God's Son
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Death of God’s Son Matthew 27.45-56 In many Christian bookshops around the world today you can buy posters to hang on the wall which remind you of some aspect of the Christian faith and life. Often they have biblical texts, set against a background of glorious scenery. Someti…
Exodus and Leviticus - Surviving in the Wilderness
Exodus and Leviticus - Surviving in the Wilderness
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Surviving in the Wilderness EXODUS 15: 22- 17: 7 A former colleague of mine used sometimes to say of a seminary student, “He [I don’t remember it ever being a she] needs to learn to love the church.” The comment would be aroused by the student’s reaction to some piece of apparent…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Three Strong Women and Three Feeble Men (I)
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Three Strong Women and Three Feeble Men (I)
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Three Strong Woman and Three Feeble Men(I) JUDGES 4:1- 24 Men can have mixed feelings about strong women, though for me strong women are not as worrying as strong men. Before my wife became disabled, she was quite capable of standing up to me; in my head I can still hear her sayi…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Gethsemane
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Gethsemane
by SPCK - N T Wright
Gethsemane Matthew 26.36-46 There was once a small girl who had never seen her father anything but cheerful. As long as she could remember, he seemed to have been smiling at her. He had smiled when she was born, the daughter he had longed for. He had smiled as he held her in his …
Mark for Everyone - The Last Supper
Mark for Everyone - The Last Supper
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 14.12–25 The Last Supper... ...On my fortieth birthday, my students gave me a surprise party. While I was taking a service in the college chapel, they carefully cleared the papers in my room, decorated it from floor to ceiling, and laid out a magnificent sp…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Last Supper
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Last Supper
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Last Supper Matthew 26.26-35 There is an article in the newspaper today about two families locked in a highly expensive legal battle. It’s all the sadder because they are next-door neighbours. The case turns on the right of one family to keep on the premises what by most peop…
All saints sermon
All saints sermon
by Jonathan Miller
A sermon for All saints day or halloween What an image! Thousands upon thousands of people clothed in the brightest white giving God the worship he deserves. Lots of people this weekend and tomorrow have and will be celebrating Halloween, and very few of them have any idea that i…
There is a season - Introduction
There is a season - Introduction
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
Introduction ‘To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.’ Ecclesiastes 3.1 ‘We don’t have time to relax! We’re too busy rejoicing !’ Marion Pritchard, age six, on hearing a radio broadcast telling people to relaxing Easter weekend’ It is one o’cl…
Times and Seasons - Full service - Proper 19 (24) - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full service - Proper 19 (24) - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 19(24) - Year A Hymn: Great [Lord] God your love has called us here or Bright morning maker, as your sun breaks through Prayer: Great God, your love Poem: How much more Reading: Psalm 114 - Exodus 14:19–31 Hymn: Guide me O thou great Jeh…
There is a season - Ash Wednesday Liturgy
There is a season - Ash Wednesday Liturgy
by SPCK - Margaret Pritchard Houston
ASH WEDNESDAY Behold, I make all things new We enter the church in silence. We sit in chairs in a semi-circle around the altar. Leader….. O God, make speed to save us. All….. O Lord, make haste to help us. reading Isaiah 53.3 – 6...
Journeying with Luke - The Sundays before Lent