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Revelation for Everyone - The Song of Triumph
Revelation for Everyone - The Song of Triumph
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Song of Triumph Revelation 11.15-19 Inscribed over the high altar in Westminster Abbey, one of the most famous churches in the world, is the King James Version translation of verse 15, which reads, ‘The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Ch…
Mark for Everyone - The Speculations of Herod
Mark for Everyone - The Speculations of Herod
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 6.14–16The Speculations of Herod... ...Private life is a modern invention. Until quite recently, most people lived in small communities where everyone knew every- one else’s business. Until a few hundred years ago, everybody heard what was going on in the w…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Song of the Lamb
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Song of the Lamb
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN PRAYERS THE SONG OF THE LAMB Revelation 15:1-4 What is it that attracts people to the Christian message? What is it that draws them to worship the God whom Christians call ‘father’? If you went round your local church and …
Mark for Everyone - The Transfiguration
Mark for Everyone - The Transfiguration
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 9.2–13 The Transfiguration... ...Science teachers never tire, so I’m told, of the moment when a child first looks into a microscope. What up until then had seemed a boring little speck of dirt can suddenly become full of pattern, colour and interest. The ch…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Third Sunday of Epiphany Nehemiah 8.1–3, 5–6, 8–10 1 Corinthians 12.12–31a Luke 4.14–21 Read the text, and give the sense. Both matter. The first is given, there on the page. The second is risky, a matter of prayer and the Spirit, a deep breath and taking the plunge. History …
Luke for Everyone - The Twelve Sent Out and Feeding the Five Thousand
Luke for Everyone - The Twelve Sent Out and Feeding the Five Thousand
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Twelve Sent Out and Feeding the Five Thousand Luke 9.1-17 When a new business starts up, it’s often the dream of one person that makes it happen. But if the business succeeds, more people need to come on board. Not just to do the detailed work that the founder hasn’t got time…
Mark for Everyone - The Twelve Are Appointed
Mark for Everyone - The Twelve Are Appointed
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 3.7–19 The Twelve Are Appointed... ...When I was a boy, the football team I support, Newcastle United, won the FA Cup, the world’s oldest football trophy, three years out of five. Think what it was like in Newcastle when the players came back from the match…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - To God Be The Glory
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - To God Be The Glory
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PRAYERS OF PAUL TO GOD BE THE GLORY Romans 11: 33-36 I was taken yesterday to see the site of a new bridge across a river. We parked the car in a grassy wood and set off to walk. The trees were quite thick to begin with, and I couldn’t see the …
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - United Praise under the Messiah's Universal Role
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - United Praise under the Messiah's Universal Role
by SPCK - N T Wright
United Praise under the Messiah’s Universal Rule ROMANS 15.7-13 The great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius brought the art of writing symphonies to a new glory. His first six were each splendid in their own way, developing the form which previous composers had used and flooding it …
Revelation bible study guide - Two Monsters
Revelation bible study guide - Two Monsters
by SPCK - N T Wright
Two Monsters Revelation 13 A parody is what you get when someone produces a fake which looks real but isn’t. Sometimes this is done deliberately, for comic effect, as when people turn a Shakespeare tragedy like Hamlet into a short, funny skit, or play a Mozart symphony on kazoos …
Revelation bible study guide - Two Witnesses and a Song of Triumph
Revelation bible study guide - Two Witnesses and a Song of Triumph
by SPCK - N T Wright
Two Witnesses and a Song of Triumph Revelation 11 People find many books puzzling, but the Bible is often the most puzzling of all. People find many parts of the Bible puzzling, but Revelation is often seen as the most puzzling book of all. And people find Revelation puzzling, bu…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Watch Out for Yourselves, the Flock and the Wolves
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Watch Out for Yourselves, the Flock and the Wolves
by SPCK - N T Wright
Watch Out for Yourselves, the Flock and the Wolves Acts 20.28-38 ‘I received an email this morning from a man I have never met. He has been studying a particular subject, and has come upon an article I wrote 25 years ago. In it, I quote a line from the scholar I was discussing (E…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - From Worldview to Theology
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - From Worldview to Theology
by SPCK - N T Wright
Part 1: PAUL AND HIS WORLD Chapter One RETURN OF THE RUNAWAY? 2 Philemon and the Study of Paul (iii) From Worldview to Theology The particular claim of the present book, then, embodied in the transition between Part II and Part III, is that when we understand the worldview of Pau…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Cynics and Sceptics
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Cynics and Sceptics
by SPCK - N T Wright
3. Athene and Her Owl: the Wisdom of the Greeks (v) Cynics and Sceptics From Stoicism proper it is a short step to that disparate phenomenon – more of a mood than a movement – that was called Cynicism. The Cynics (again, our English meanings let us down here, though there is some…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - From Tiberius to Vespasian
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - From Tiberius to Vespasian
by SPCK - N T Wright
2. The Reality of Empire (IV) From Tiberius to Vespasian: AD 14–70 The fifty years after Augustus’s death saw the empire, in terms of the personal rule of the emperor, both consolidated and threatened. Consolidated, in that after a few years of Tiberius’s rule the old republican …
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Central Argument
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - The Central Argument
by SPCK - N T Wright
Part 1: PAUL AND HIS WORLD Chapter One RETURN OF THE RUNAWAY? 1. A World of Difference (iv) The Central Argument These discussions about the actual situation and the request Paul made have tended, as I said, to make exegetes overlook the point which is just as important in its wa…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Story and Scripture
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Story and Scripture
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL (v) Story and Scripture All that we have said so far leads back to a point of enormous importance for our reading of Paul the apostle. The primary way in which scripture itself was seen was not simply…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - 1) Preface