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John for Everyone Part 1 - Philip and Nathanael
John for Everyone Part 1 - Philip and Nathanael
by SPCK - N T Wright
Philip and Nathanael John 1.43-51 Jacob was a schemer and twister. All his early life he had one eye on the main chance, especially if it meant getting one up on his older twin, Esau. In fact, even the story of how they were born included the telling detail: he’d been holding on …
Revelation for Everyone - Praise to the Creator
Revelation for Everyone - Praise to the Creator
by SPCK - N T Wright
Praise to the Creator Revelation 4.6b-11 Scientists and anthropologists have often asked themselves, ‘What is it that humans can do that computers can’t do?’ Computers, after all, can play chess better than most of us. They can work out answers to all kinds of questions that woul…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Reconciled and Firm in Faith
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 …
Luke for Everyone - Reading the Signs of the Times
Luke for Everyone - Reading the Signs of the Times
by SPCK - N T Wright
Reading the Signs of the Times Luke 12.49-59 The great composer Ludwig van Beethoven used sometimes to play a trick on polite salon audiences, especially when he guessed that they weren’t really interested in serious music. He would perform a piece on the piano, one of his own sl…
Revelation for Everyone - The Lamb's Elite Warrior
Revelation for Everyone - The Lamb's Elite Warrior
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Lamb’s Elite Warriors Revelation 14.1-5 Jesus himself, of course, used this image of the shepherd in the tenth chapter of John’s gospel. And his call to people to ‘follow him’ is one of the most persistent commands he ever issued. One might almost say that, in the gospels, ‘f…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Lord's Prayer
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Lord's Prayer
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Lord’s Prayer Matthew 6.7-15 I was talking to a friend who had the reputation of being one of the finest preachers in the area. How did he go about it, I asked. He had no particular technique, he said; he just puzzled over the biblical readings that were set for that day unti…
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Messiah and the Father
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Messiah and the Father
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Messiah and the Father John 10.19-30 It was the third winter after the disaster. Many of the people had begun to lose hope that good fortune would ever return to them. The enemy had come in and trampled all over their lovely city. Many had been killed, many captured. Some of …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Unveiling the New Temple
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Unveiling the New Temple
by SPCK - N T Wright
Unveiling the New Temple Ephesians 2.17-22 One of the greatest worldwide problems of our time is the plight of refugees and asylum-seekers. People in the West sometimes try to pretend that the world is now a civilized place where most people can go about their business in peace, …
John for Everyone Part 1 - Water into Wine
John for Everyone Part 1 - Water into Wine
by SPCK - N T Wright
Water into Wine John 2.1-12 One of the first events I ever organized was a treasure hunt. It was during the school holidays, when I was about ten or eleven. I invited all my friends from neighbouring houses and streets to come and join in. With my mother’s careful help, I planned…
The Ascension-Jesus Returns to Heaven
The Ascension-Jesus Returns to Heaven
by Dave Hopwood
Back for Good Bible Ref: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 1 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking…
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Bridegroom and His Friend
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Bridegroom and His Friend
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Bridegroom and His Friend John 3.22-36 Millions of television viewers around the world remember the moment when Lady Diana Spencer got the words wrong in her marriage to Prince Charles. It wasn’t a serious mistake – her husband had rather a lot of names, and she got two of th…
A Tale from a Riverbank
A Tale from a Riverbank
by Roger Price
This is one of a number of monologues that I have written for use in worship or some other reflective purpose. This one deals with the events of baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan by John from the point of view of a bystander waiting his turn to be baptised . A Tale From a Rive…
Body - Chapter 3 - The resurrection body