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Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus and Barabbas Before Pilate
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus and Barabbas Before Pilate
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Jesus and Barabbas Before Pilate Matthew 27.11-26 One of the most dramatic scenes in Charles Dickens’ novels comes at the end of A Tale of Two Cities. Set in the French Revolution, the novel’s central figure is one Sydney Carton, a man who has done nothing very good with his life…
Monologue: The Listener
Monologue: The Listener
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: The Listener They think I’m a nobody. Only a servant girl. Always in the background, waiting on them, but never really noticed. Just like a piece of furniture. But they don’t realize how much I see and know and, as long as I keep quiet and do my job, they don’t really …
John for Everyone part 2 - That They May Be One
John for Everyone part 2 - That They May Be One
by SPCK - N T Wright
That They May Be One John 17.20-26 This afternoon I looked on the Internet for a website about an electric appliance that’s gone wrong. I’ve lost the instruction booklet and was hoping to find relevant information through the Web. I found the website of the company that makes the…
Monologue: The Order of Melchizedek
Monologue: The Order of Melchizedek
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: The Order of Melchizedek Melchizedek! Now there’s a great name for a High Priest, if ever I heard one. Melchizedek!! Good strong name. Starts with an ‘M’ – a thrusting letter – pushing the word out into the waiting world. And it’s got four syllables – very impressive, …
Hebrews for Everyone - Better Ministry, Better Covenant
Hebrews for Everyone - Better Ministry, Better Covenant
by SPCK - N T Wright
Better Ministry, Better Covenant Hebrews 8.1-6 When my sons were little, we gave them a game they could play at home. It was a type of football; except that you played it on a table top, with plastic figures an inch or two high. You had to flick them with your finger, so that the…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Ananias and Saul
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Ananias and Saul
by SPCK - N T Wright
Ananias and Saul Acts 9.11-19a As the concert progressed, I watched the different players in the orchestra. There at the back sat a man who looked very, very bored. In fact, he disappeared for about half an hour at one point. (There are stories of musicians turning up in bars nea…
Hebrews for Everyone - So - Come to Worship
Hebrews for Everyone - So - Come to Worship
by SPCK - N T Wright
So- Come to Worship! Hebrews 10.19-25 I watched as my mother came in from shopping, carrying several bulging bags. She called me to help get the rest from the car. I couldn’t think why she’d bought so much food, but I fetched and carried and unloaded as best I could. Then I remem…
Hebrews for Everyone - God's Unchangeable Promise
Hebrews for Everyone - God's Unchangeable Promise
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Unchangeable Promise Hebrews 6.13-20 ‘What’s that, then?’ The little boy tugged at my hand and pointed to a large, ugly metal object prominently displayed near the front of the ship which was gliding by. I took him a little further along the quay, and we came to another shi…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Before Caiaphas
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Jesus Before Caiaphas
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus Before Caiaphas Matthew 26.57-68 Have you ever watched two people speaking to each other in different languages, neither understanding the other? Sometimes it’s funny, and effective. I remember watching with surprise and delight as my daughter, aged about five, played on ho…
Hebrews for Everyone - Jesus as the Truly Human Being
Hebrews for Everyone - Jesus as the Truly Human Being
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus as the Truly Human Being HEBREWS 2.5-9 One of the most dramatic stories in the Old Testament concerns the royal succession. King David was very old, and everybody knew he couldn’t last much longer. He had a great many sons and daughters. One of his sons, Adonijah, got toget…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - The Snake on Malta