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Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Earthquake and Salvation
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Earthquake and Salvation
by SPCK - N T Wright
Earthquake and Salvation Acts 16.25-34 I remember old Bishop Stephen Neill, who was winning classical scholarships around the time my father was born, telling me how we should translate verse 30. He was used to hearing people quote the panic-stricken question of the Philippian ja…
Hebrews for Everyone - Don't Neglect God's Salvation!
Hebrews for Everyone - Don't Neglect God's Salvation!
by SPCK - N T Wright
Don’t Neglect God’s Salvation HEBREWS 2.1-4 A well-known story imagines a devout Christian stuck on a ledge halfway down a cliff. Hundreds of feet below, the sea rages around jagged rocks. Above him is a sheer, unclimbable wall of rock. He prays fervently for God to rescue him. S…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Dying and Rising With Christ
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Dying and Rising With Christ
by SPCK - N T Wright
2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF DYING AND RISING WITH CHRIST Colossians 2: 20- 3: 4 ‘I’ll just be two minutes,’ I said, leaving my friends on the street corner while I went to fetch the car. It was raining, and we’d just come out of the theatre. But I wasn’t two minutes. I took …
Mark for Everyone - Exorcism and Healings
Mark for Everyone - Exorcism and Healings
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 1.21–34 Exorcism and Healings... ...Not long ago there was a great disaster at sea. A tourist boat, loaded with cars and holidaymakers, had failed to shut its doors properly; the water began to pour in; the boat began to sink, and panic set in. People were …
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Faith that Moves Mountains
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Faith that Moves Mountains
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith that Moves Mountains Matthew 17.14-21 She was a strong swimmer, and by now she was ready to tackle the challenge of swimming in the sea. A bathing pool is all right to begin with, but it’s a bit tame compared with ocean rollers. For a while it was simply exhilarating. She a…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Felix Calms (and Slows) Things Down
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Felix Calms (and Slows) Things Down
by SPCK - N T Wright
Felix Calms (and Slows) Things DownActs 24.22-27 A friend of mine preached a sermon, as my guest, on radiators and drains. Some people, he said, are radiators, and other people are drains. Some people, that is, naturally give energy and warmth to others. People like having them…
Mark for Everyone - Further Signs of the End
Mark for Everyone - Further Signs of the End
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 13.14–27 Further Signs of the End... ...When Albert Schweitzer, the great medical missionary, theologian and musician of the early twentieth century, was a young man, he studied the organ in Paris under Charles Marie Widor. One day in 1899 Widor confessed t…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God Is Love
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God Is Love
by SPCK - N T Wright
3 THE GREAEST OF THE VIRTUES GOD IS LOVE 1 John 4: 7-21 God is love; those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. 17This is what makes love complete for us, so that we may have boldness and confidence on the day of judgment, because just as he is, so are we withi…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Determined Faithfulness
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Determined Faithfulness
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Determined Faithfulness ROMANS 3.1-8 I once carried some valuable jewellery half way round the world. My wife and I were going to New Zealand. Friends of ours in England were wanting to send something – I think it was a necklace – to another part of the family. They didn’t …
Mark for Everyone - God’s Law and Human Tradition
Mark for Everyone - God’s Law and Human Tradition
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 7.1–13 God’s Law and Human Tradition... ...I read a book about jokes the other day (not just a book of jokes, you understand, though there were plenty of them, but a philosophical book about jokes; humour is, as you might say, a very funny thing). One of th…
The Pastoral Letters - God's Word is not Tied Up
The Pastoral Letters - God's Word is not Tied Up
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Word Is Not Tied Up 2Timothy 2.8-13 ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones,’ goes the old rhyme, ‘but calling names won’t hurt me.’ It may be good to mutter little jingles like that if people are being rude to you, but actually the rhyme is only partly true. And when it come…
The Pastoral Letters - Godliness and Contentment
The Pastoral Letters - Godliness and Contentment
by SPCK - N T Wright
Godliness and Contentment 1Timothy 6.6-10 It is hardly an exaggeration to say that this famous passage is an indictment of modern Western culture. Never before in history has there been such a restless pursuit of riches, by more and more highly developed means. Never before has t…
Revelation bible study guide - God's Victory
Revelation bible study guide - God's Victory
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Victory Revelation 19 In Britain and other parts of the world, weddings can be highly expensive. Even in areas of relative poverty, people still spend tens of thousands of pounds to stage something that seems appropriate to the occasion. There is much about this that I find…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Godliness and Contentment
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Godliness and Contentment
by SPCK - N T Wright
5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD GODLINESS AND CONTENTMENT 1 Timothy 6: 6-10 It is hardly an exaggeration to say that this famous passage is an indictment of modern Western culture. Never before in history has there been such a restless pursuit of riches, by more and more highly develo…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - How God's Impartial Judgement Will Work
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - How God's Impartial Judgement Will Work
by SPCK - N T Wright
How God’s Impartial Judgment Will Work ROMANS 2.12-16 ‘I mentioned not long ago the mad Emperor Caligula, who had new laws pinned up in places where people couldn’t read them. Well, once Paul has declared that God will judge the whole human race with complete impartiality, he has…
Mark for Everyone - Jairus’s Daughter and the Woman with Chronic Bleeding
Mark for Everyone - Jairus’s Daughter and the Woman with Chronic Bleeding
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 5.21–34 Jairus’s Daughter and the Woman with Chronic Bleeding... ...We really should take this passage with the next one, since in Mark’s mind they are all part of the same story. But both are so full of interest that it’s worth holding them apart for the m…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - It's All coming True at Last!
Acts for Everyone part 1 - It's All coming True at Last!
by SPCK - N T Wright
It’s All Coming True at Last! Acts 2. 14-21 We don’t always plan our holidays very carefully, but on this occasion we had. We had read the brochures. We had worked through the alternative places to stay. We had looked at the special things we could do when we got there. And, in p…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - It's Easy To Get Lost