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Hebrews for Everyone - The Messiah's Work in the Heavenly Sanctuary
Hebrews for Everyone - The Messiah's Work in the Heavenly Sanctuary
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Messiah’s Work in the Heavenly Sanctuary Hebrews 9.23-28 ‘It was such a great day,’ she said. ‘I’d really like to do it all over again!’ We were looking at the photographs two weeks after the wedding. All their friends and relatives had been there. The sun had shone. The musi…
Luke for Everyone - The Magnificat: Mary's Song of Praise
Luke for Everyone - The Magnificat: Mary's Song of Praise
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Magnificat: Mary’s Song of Praise Luke 1.39-56 What would make you celebrate wildly, without inhibition? Perhaps it would be the news that someone close to you who’d been very sick was getting better and would soon be home. Perhaps it would be the news that your country had e…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Samaria, the Spirit and Simon Magus
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Samaria, the Spirit and Simon Magus
by SPCK - N T Wright
Samaria, the Spirit and Simon Magus Acts 8.4-25 As a bishop, one of the things I do quite a lot is to go round laying hands on people and praying for God’s holy spirit to come upon them. It is often a very moving and exciting time, not least at the Easter Vigil when we come in da…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Love: The Bridge to God's Future
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Love: The Bridge to God's Future
by SPCK - N T Wright
Love: The Bridge to God’s Future 1 Corinthians 13.8-13 When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a young man, living with his father Leopold (himself a fine musician) in Vienna, he is said to have played a trick on him from time to time. Young Wolfgang would come home from spending a riot…
2 Corinthians - New creation, New Ministry
2 Corinthians - New creation, New Ministry
by SPCK - N T Wright
New Creation, New Ministry 2 CORINTHIANS 5. 16-6.2 When a new world is born, a new way of living goes with it. This is true in so many stages of life. It is true when a couple have their first baby; a whole new chapter has opened in their lives, and nothing will be the same again…
John for Everyone part 2 - Your Heart Will Rejoice
John for Everyone part 2 - Your Heart Will Rejoice
by SPCK - N T Wright
Your Hearts Will Rejoice John 16.12-22 How do you talk about things that are not just out of the ordinary but that take you into a whole new world? One way of doing it is through music. That’s why some of the greatest songs are love poems. Faced with the glory and thrill of human…
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…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Parable of the Weeds Explained
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Parable of the Weeds Explained
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Weeds Explained Matthew 13.36-43 I have on my desk a photograph of a sunset. The sun is going down over one of my favourite countryside scenes, lighting up the sky above and silhouetting, on the skyline, hills I have loved since boyhood. The sun is mostly behin…
Luke for Everyone - Zechariah's Song of Praise
Luke for Everyone - Zechariah's Song of Praise
by SPCK - N T Wright
Zechariah’s Song of Praise Luke 1.57-80 Many people today can’t imagine what life would be like without a television. We are so used to it telling us what to think about all the time that, without it, some people become quite worried, lost in a world of their own unfamiliar thoug…
The Pastoral Letters - Rekindle the Gift!
The Pastoral Letters - Rekindle the Gift!
by SPCK - David Adam
Rekindle the Gift! 2Timothy 1.1-7 There was snow outside, and the living room was cold when I came downstairs. I don’t know why I’d woken up early, but I now shivered as I huddled on the sofa and waited for one of my parents to follow me downstairs. (I can’t have been more than a…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 5 Knowledge: Problems and Varieties
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 5 Knowledge: Problems and Varieties
by SPCK - N T Wright
Knowledge: Problems and Varieties We have seen that the study of the New Testament involves three disciplines in particular: literature, history and theology. They are, as it were, among the armies that use the New Testament as a battleground…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 6 Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 6 Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge
by SPCK - N T Wright
Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge Stories are one of the most basic modes of human life. It is not the case that we perform random acts and then try to make sense of them; when people do that we say that they are drunk, or mad…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 9 ‘Is There Anybody There?’
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 9 ‘Is There Anybody There?’
by SPCK - N T Wright
‘Is There Anybody There?’ We have already seen that, while naïve realism imagines itself to have direct access to the event or object spoken of in the text, a more phenomenalist reading realizes that it can only be sure of the author’s viewpoint. This is a less ambitious claim. I…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 10 Reading and Critical Realism
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 10 Reading and Critical Realism
by SPCK - N T Wright
Reading and Critical Realism What we need, I suggest, is a critical-realist account of the phenomenon of reading, in all its parts. To one side we can see the positivist or the naïve realist, who move so smoothly along the line from reader to text to author to referent that they …
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 20 From Event to Meaning