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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Dying to the Law
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Dying to the Law
by SPCK - N T Wright
Dying to the Law ROMANS 7.1-6 I have done my best, in this book and the others like it, to use illustrations which will help my readers get to the heart of the point in each passage. Some reviewers have questioned both the wisdom of this attempt and my skill in achieving it, but …
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Faith Wins the Victory
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Faith Wins the Victory
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith Wins the Victory 1 John 5.1-12 The first time I went snorkelling on a tropical reef, I was overwhelmed by the sight. Face down in the water by the Great Barrier Reef, off the north-east coast of Australia, I knew at once that this was a totally new experience. All around me…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Faith and Works
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Faith and Works
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith and Works James 2.14-26 That’s the wrong way round, isn’t it? That’s what we are inclined to think as we read that final verse. If I were to use ‘the body and the spirit’ as a picture for ‘faith and works’, I would make ‘faith’ correspond to the ‘spirit’ and ‘works’ to the …
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Final Blessings and Charge
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Final Blessings and Charge
by SPCK - N T Wright
Final Blessings and Charge Thessalonians 5.23-28 When I was ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament, I received many cards and letters wishing me well and assuring me of the prayers and support of family and friends. The one that made the deepest impression on me at the ti…
Luke for Everyone - Further Warnings
Luke for Everyone - Further Warnings
by SPCK - N T Wright
Further Warnings Luke 12.1-12 It started off as an ordinary walk in the country. We decided to head off across open moorland towards a distant crag; the map suggested there might be a good view from the top. Much of the walk was relaxed. The five of us went at our own paces, in t…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Action in Messiah and Spirit
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Action in Messiah and Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Action in Messiah and Spirit ROMANS 8.1-4 PAUL FOR EVERYONE ROMANS PART 1 1So, therefore, there is no condemnation for those in the Messiah, Jesus! 2Why not? Because the law of the spirit – the one who gives life in the Messiah, Jesus – released you from the law of sin and …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - God's Complete Armour
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - God's Complete Armour
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Complete Armour Ephesians 6.10-17 For some reason, almost whenever I write about passages like this one, dealing with spiritual warfare, I run into problems. One time a workman outside the house drove a nail through a main electricity cable, and I lost half an hour’s writin…
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus and the Disciples
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus and the Disciples
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus and the Disciples John 20.19-23 ‘I couldn’t possibly do that!’ He stood staring at the committee. They had just offered him, not the job he had applied for, but the one above it. The senior position in the whole division. He would be running an entire department. A huge bud…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus' Genealogy
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus' Genealogy
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus’ Genealogy Matthew 1.1-17 In Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest, the hero is asked about his family background, and is forced to confess that he had lost both his parents. He had been found, as a tiny baby, in a handbag. The indignation that greets these rev…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Many Members, One Body
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’…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Off With The Old, On With The New
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Off With The Old, On With The New
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF 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…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Peter Goes to Cornelius
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Peter Goes to Cornelius
by SPCK - N T Wright
Peter Goes to Cornelius Acts 10.17-33 ‘Four days ago’, he said, ‘I was praying in my house at around this time, about three o’clock, and suddenly a man stood beside me in shining clothes. 31“Cornelius,” he said, “your prayer has been heard, and your almsgiving has been remembered…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Preaching and Prison in Philippi
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Preaching and Prison in Philippi
by SPCK - N T Wright
Preaching and Prison in Philippi Acts 16. 11-24 A friend of mine, a few years after being ordained, was sent to work in an inner suburb where, for a long time, vice had reigned unchecked. The police knew what was going on but were following a policy of containment rather than con…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 19 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 19 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 19 Jeremiah 4.11–28 1 Timothy 1.12–17 Luke 15.1–10 In a recent article, a priest from another tradition described the cheerful mixture of spiritualities which made up his regular personal prayer. It was a vivid and moving account of a busy man nourishing and cherishing a s…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 8 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 8 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 8 2 Kings 2.1–14 Galatians 5.1, 13–25 Luke 9.51–end ‘Leave the dead to bury their dead.’ One of Jesus’ starkest commands, this flies in the face of the sacred Jewish obligation to attend to the burial of one’s father ahead of all other duties, even saying one’s daily praye…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Spiritual or Merely Human?
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Spiritual or Merely Human?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Spiritual or Merely Human? 1 Corinthians 2.14-3.4 Once, during the ‘hippy’ era in the late 1960s, I sang and played my guitar in a folk club on the west side of Vancouver. I was there a week, and got to know some of the other regular performers quite well. One was a young man wit…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Suffering for Doing Right
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Suffering for Doing Right
by SPCK - N T Wright
Suffering for Doing Right 1 Peter 3.17-22 The older I get, the more I dislike things which need to be put together, after you buy them, by following complicated instructions and diagrams. Part of my dislike is my sense that I will probably get it wrong, force something where it w…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Birth of Jesus