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Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Judgment on Jerusalem and It's Leaders
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Judgment on Jerusalem and It's Leaders
by SPCK - N T Wright
Judgment on Jerusalem and Its Leaders Matthew 23.34-39 For many city-dwellers, myself included, life on a farm can appear idyllic. Memories of brief visits to farming relatives when I was a child combine with the view of peaceful rural life seen from a car or a train. Living in c…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Live Up to Your Calling
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Live Up to Your Calling
by SPCK - N T Wright
Live Up to Your Calling Ephesians 4.1-10 If you buy a new car, what’s the first thing you do? Do you sit down for an hour and read through the manual, to make sure you know every little detail about it before you take to the road? Or do you at once get behind the wheel and go for…
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Paul's Fatherly Concern
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Paul's Fatherly Concern
by SPCK - N T Wright
Paul’s Fatherly Concern Thessalonians 2.9-12 Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Paul’s missionary work is that when he arrived in a new town the people there had quite literally never seen anything of the sort before. They had seen other travelling teachers, but none like th…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Ransomed by Grace
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Ransomed by Grace
by SPCK - N T Wright
Ransomed by Grace 1 Peter 1.10-21 John went into a junk-shop the other day, in a little town not far from here. He was looking for something in particular, and after wandering around for a while he thought he saw just the thing. It was a bowl, about eight inches across. Someone h…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Call to Holy Living
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Call to Holy Living
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Call to Holy Living ROMANS 6.12-14 We ended the last section with a picture of someone moving house, changing from one landlord to another. Let’s extend that a bit, and imagine that I am a smallholder living out in the countryside, about a thousand years ago. My little farm s…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Desolating Sacrilege
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Desolating Sacrilege
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Desolating Sacrilege Matthew 24.15-28 In many countries, one of the things children look forward to is going away to a summer camp. The weather is warm, there is swimming and boating, there are old friends and new ones, there are songs round a campfire, there are sports and g…
Mark for Everyone - The Demon-Possessed Boy
Mark for Everyone - The Demon-Possessed Boy
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 9.14–29 The Demon-Possessed Boy... ...Our mountain walk started quite easily. We strolled along the first mile or two, following the red flashes of paint on nearby rocks, which marked the route. Only a gentle incline; we didn’t even break into a sweat. We b…
Revelation for Everyone - The Letter to Ephesus
Revelation for Everyone - The Letter to Ephesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Letter to Ephesus Revelation 2.1-7 The first time I visited Ephesus, I was overwhelmed with the size and scale of the place. Massive buildings still stand, dating back to the first century and beyond. The amphitheatre alone takes your breath away. Streets, houses, shops: it’s…
Revelation for Everyone - The Letter to Philadelphia
Revelation for Everyone - The Letter to Philadelphia
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Letter to Philadelphia Revelation 3.7-13 I have been sitting here trying to imagine what it’s like to find yourself in an earthquake. I was once in a hotel in Los Angeles, a few dozen floors up, and was alarmed to find detailed instructions in the room on what I should do if …
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Mind of the Messiah
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Mind of the Messiah
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Mind of the Messiah When people in the ancient world thought of heroic leaders, rulers and kings they often thought of Alexander the Great (356–323 BC). At the age of 20 he succeeded his father Philip to the throne of Macedonia, quickly made himself master of all Greece, and …
John for Everyone part 2 - The Raising of Lazarus
John for Everyone part 2 - The Raising of Lazarus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Raising of Lazarus John 11.38-46 We saw a programme on the television last night about the fossilized remains of what looks like an ancient race of creatures. They seem to be like humans, but much taller. They appear to have been significantly different from any monkeys or ap…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Question about Elijah
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Question about Elijah
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Question about Elijah Matthew 17.9-13 The young student nervously approached the professor after the lecture. He’d been thinking for some while about doing graduate work after his degree, and this teacher’s lectures were the ones he’d most enjoyed. Could he perhaps have a bri…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Same Spirit at Work
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Same Spirit at Work
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Same Spirit at Work 1 Corinthians 12.1-11 One of the most exciting experiences of my teenage years was playing in an orchestra at school. I had learned the piano for a year or two, but you normally play that without other musicians joining in. Now I began the trombone. Of cou…
Hebrews for Everyone - The Sympathetic High Priest
Hebrews for Everyone - The Sympathetic High Priest
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Sympathetic High Priest Hebrews 4.14-5.3 I have just finished reading a fascinating wartime diary, written by an Anglican clergyman who was captured by the Germans in 1940 and spent the next five years in various prison camps, ministering as best he could to the thousands of …
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Table of the Lord and the Table of Demons
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Table of the Lord and the Table of Demons
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Table of the Lord and the Table of Demons 1 Corinthians 10.14-22 ‘Christianity’, declared the great Archbishop William Temple, ‘is the most materialistic of all religions.’ He had in mind the commitment of genuine Christianity to the faith that God really became human in Jesu…
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Truth Will Make You Free
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Truth Will Make You Free
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Truth Will Make You Free John 8.30-36 The square was crowded. Indeed, it was more than crowded: it was packed to overflowing. People were leaning from windows in the beautifully sculpted office blocks around the square. It was lunchtime, but nobody was thinking of eating. The…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Way of Love and Peace
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Way of Love and Peace
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Way of Love and Peace ROMANS 14.13-23 The snow was heavy that night – so heavy that by the time they opened the curtains they could only just see the top of the garden gate. There must have been at least three feet of the stuff. At the breakfast table, the son reminded his fa…
The Pastoral Letters - Vessels for God's Use