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Revelation bible study guide - A Little Scroll
Revelation bible study guide - A Little Scroll
by SPCK - N T Wright
A LITTLE SCROLL Revelation 10 One of the most famous baseball umpires of all time, Bill Klem, earned his reputation by insisting that the umpire’s word was not only final, but in a sense creative. On one celebrated occasion, he waited a long time to call a particular pitch. Some …
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God's Strange Wisdom
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God's Strange Wisdom
by SPCK - N T Wright
1 THE WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT GOD’S STRANGE WISDOM 1 Corinthians 2: 6-13 When my sister celebrated her twenty-first birthday, she and I were at university, a long way from home. So a cousin of my father’s, who lived nearby, invited the two of us to dinner to celebrate. He and his wi…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Good Friday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Good Friday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK GOOD FRIDAY... ...We stopped the car outside the most unlikely looking house. One wall looked as if it was going to collapse at any moment. The door was hanging off on one hinge. An upstairs window was broken. There was a rustle in the bush…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday Holy Week Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday Holy Week Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK MONDAY... How much did you earn last year? Or, if you don’t earn a regular wage, how much did it cost you to live last year? Think about that sum for a moment. Now imagine that someone who had that amount of money sitting in the bank decide…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Look Upon Their Threats
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Look Upon Their Threats
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN PRAYERS LOOK UPON THEIR THREATS Acts 4: 23-31 In the early summer of 1989, I went to Jerusalem to teach, and to work on a couple of books, one of which was about Jesus himself. One day, sitting in my borrowed room at St Ge…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - New Words for New News
Acts for Everyone part 1 - New Words for New News
by SPCK - N T Wright
New Words for New News Acts 2. 5-13 ‘These men are all Galileans, aren’t they?’ they said. 8‘So how is it that each of us can hear them in our own mother tongues? 9There are Parthians here, and Medians, Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judaea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10Phrygi…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Palm Sunday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Palm Sunday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK PALM SUNDAY... ...The guests arrived on time, and soon the party was in full swing. The little nibbles, a whole variety of tasty little morsels, were delicious. The wine sparkled in the glasses. A lovely smell wafted through from the kitche…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Persistence in Prayer
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Persistence in Prayer
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 1 NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING ON PRAYER THE TEACHING OF JESUS PERSISTENCE IN PRAYER Luke 11: 1-13 The telephone rang. It was a message that my younger son, a singer, was about to get on an aeroplane to go with his choir to the other side of the world. If I was quick, I might just…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Praying With Mind As Well As Spirit
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Praying With Mind As Well As Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 1 NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING ON PRAYER THE TEACHING OF PAUL PRAYING WITH MIND AS WELL AS SPIRIT 1 Corinthians 14: 13-19 When you look at another person, what do you see? I don’t mean what shape, what colour, what size of person are you looking at; I mean, how do you think about …
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Stephen Tells the Story
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Stephen Tells the Story
by SPCK - N T Wright
Stephen Tells the Story Acts 7.1-16 One of the most obvious differences between cricket and baseball is the way the ball is projected towards the person who is trying to hit it. As most people will know, the person who ‘pitches’ in baseball stands on a single spot, where he (or s…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - The Clash of Loyalties
Acts for Everyone part 1 - The Clash of Loyalties
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Clash of Loyalties Acts 4. 13-22 Jennifer was teaching some basic geography to a class of eight- year-olds. They were studying Australia. They had just drawn a rough map together, and had worked out where the main cities were. Then Jennifer asked the class if anyone could say…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Mystery and The Victory
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Mystery and The Victory
by SPCK - N T Wright
5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD THE MYSTETY AND THE VICTORY 1 Corinthians 15: 50-58 He stood there in baggy jeans, trainers, and an old sweater. ‘You can’t come in like that,’ I said. ‘This is a smart lunch, and we’re the guests. We’ve got to get it right.’ ‘No problem,’ he replied, a…
Mark for Everyone - The Rich Young Ruler
Mark for Everyone - The Rich Young Ruler
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 10.17–31 The Rich Young Ruler... ...When I was a boy, grown-ups used to divide their history into two periods: Before the War, and After the War (or Since the War). The Second World War had torn a hole in their world. Everything was different now: a differe…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday before Advent Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday before Advent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Third Sunday Before Advent Jonah 3.1-5, 10 Hebrews 9.24-28 Mark 1.14-20 ‘Once, only once, and once for all.’ The hymn that starts thus withdraws with the left hand some of what it gives with the right, hinting that Christ’s unique sacrifice is still somehow present in the e…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday Holy Week Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Tuesday Holy Week Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B HOLY WEEK TUESDAY... ...Two generations ago, J. B. Phillips (best known for his translation of the New Testament) published a little book called Your God Is Too Small. It was a moving appeal for ordinary Christians to lift up their eyes and imaginati…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Sunday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3: SUNDAY... ...A couple of years ago I found myself in New York at the time when the Museum of Modern Art was hosting an exhibition of Claude Monet’s ‘Waterlily’ paintings. I hadn’t realized how enormous they were, or just how abstract the shap…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Saturday: Week 3 in Lent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B WEEK 3:SATURDAY... ...I sat for two hours with a young man who could not believe in God’s love. When I say ‘could not’, that is quite literally how it seemed. He could not believe in God’s love in much the same way that he was physically incapable of…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Monday: Week 3 in Lent Year B