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Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Timothy- and New Developments
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Timothy- and New Developments
by SPCK - N T Wright
Timothy – and New Developments Acts 16. 1-10 A few weeks ago I had to choose a new close colleague to work with. It was difficult. There were some splendid people to choose from. Together with trusted friends and wise advisors, I prayed for God’s guidance, I did as much homework …
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Mark 1.21-28 Gaze on a classroom, when a new teacher arrives. The pupils are nervous but so is the teacher. It will only be a few moments before it is clear where the power lies. Can the teacher hold the attention of the class, or will the children…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Abraham's Two Families
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Abraham's Two Families
by SPCK - N T Wright
Abraham’s Two Families ROMANS 9.6-13 When you walk or drive through unfamiliar territory, you have to rely on the map. It is the bottom line. If you find yourself somewhere you didn’t expect, you scratch your head, get out the map again, and figure out where you went wrong. You m…
Reflections for Holy Week - Jesus Wept
Reflections for Holy Week - Jesus Wept
by Michaela Youngson
Jesus Wept Luke 19.28-48 The fresh green of Olivet soon gives way to the barren waste of Golgotha and somewhere between the two is the City. When he came in sight of the city, Jesus wept over it. The city in which dreams are born, wealth grows, mornings bring the luxurious cries …
Reflections for Holy Week - Jar and Nard
Reflections for Holy Week - Jar and Nard
by Michaela Youngson
Jar and Nard Matthew 26.6-13 A jar, fit to hold something precious, broken open to allow its contents to flow in scandalous, intimate, tactile generosity. The pot is royal purple and holy blue, with silver strands that hint at wealth. The colour of death, the colour of lent...
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Problems of Family Living
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Problems of Family Living
by SPCK - N T Wright
Problems of Family Living Acts 6.1-7 Late one night there was a knock at the door. It was a good friend of ours. His hat was on crooked and he had wild excitement in his face. ‘It’s twins!’ he shouted as we ushered him in. ‘We had no idea! Two girls! The doctors hadn’t spotted it…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 17 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 17 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 17 Jeremiah 2.4–13 Hebrews 13.1–8, 15–16 Luke 14.1, 7–14 Don’t sit at the top table, declares Jesus; start at the bottom and see what happens. If this is a parable, as Luke says, it isn’t advice about behaviour at dinner parties. In Luke’s wider context, its meaning is cog…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Stephen Becomes a Target
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Stephen Becomes a Target
by SPCK - N T Wright
Stephen Becomes a Target Acts 6.8-15 Without in any way wishing to complain, I do have a fellow feeling with Stephen in this passage. He has only just been appointed a ‘deacon’, with particular responsibility for helping organize the daily distribution of food to the community …
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Disaster
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Disaster
by SPCK - N T Wright
Disaster Acts 5.1-11 Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great Victorian Baptist preacher, recounted the story of how, on one occasion, he was preaching as usual when he found himself denouncing some- one in the congregation whom he didn’t know. Words came into his mouth describing how …
Travelling Nativity