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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Law and the Cross
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Law and the Cross
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Law and the Cross Colossians 2.13-19 The crowd was already angry, and it got angrier as we watched. They had come together to protest about the shooting down of a Korean jumbo jet over the southwest Pacific. Most of them had lost relatives or friends in the disaster. And, whe…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - The Messianic Challenge
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - The Messianic Challenge
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Messianic Challenge Acts 13.26-43 At the time I am writing this there is a massive global debate taking place. Led by senior figures in science and government, people everywhere are asking whether the world and its atmosphere are really warming up at the alarming rate that th…
Hebrews for Everyone - The Messiah is Superior to Angels
Hebrews for Everyone - The Messiah is Superior to Angels
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Messiah Is Superior to Angels HEBREWS 1.6-14 It was Christmas again, and we spent what seemed like a very long time not just buying presents but wrapping them up. Half the fun of Christmas morning, after all, is the exciting packages in glittering wrapping, with ribbons and b…
Hebrews for Everyone - The Stopping of the Sacrifices
Hebrews for Everyone - The Stopping of the Sacrifices
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Stopping of the Sacrifices Hebrews 10.1-10 Last year we had one vacation inside another one. We had gone off for three weeks to a quiet, peaceful spot to recover after several months of hectic and unrelenting work and activity. But while we were there the opportunity came for…
The Pastoral Letters - The Teaching about the Truth
The Pastoral Letters - The Teaching about the Truth
by SPCK - N T Wright
True Teaching about the Truth 1Timothy 1.1-7 I remember with considerable embarrassment one of the very first sermons I ever preached. In my mind’s eye I could see it so well. I knew – or thought I knew – what I wanted to say. But when I sat down to put it together, to write it o…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Transfiguration
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Transfiguration
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Transfiguration Matthew 17.1-8 Mount Tabor is a large, round hill in central Galilee. When you go there today with a party of pilgrims, you have to get out of your bus and take a taxi to the top. They say that God is especially pleased with the Mount Tabor taxi-drivers, becau…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - The True God
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - The True God
by SPCK - N T Wright
The True God 1 John 5.13-21 Sometimes a short story will play a trick on its readers. Sometimes the author has told the story cleverly so as to lead us in one direction throughout the narrative, and then, with the last sentence, will reveal something which changes everything. Thi…
Luke for Everyone - The Triumphal Entry
Luke for Everyone - The Triumphal Entry
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Triumphal Entry Luke 19.28-40 Mile after uphill mile, it seems a long way even today in a car. You wind up through the sandy hills from Jericho, the lowest point on the face of the earth, through the Judaean desert, climbing all the way. Halfway up, you reach sea level; you’v…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - To Rome at Last
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - To Rome at Last
by SPCK - N T Wright
To Rome at Last Acts 28.11-22 It has been a long voyage, and the biblical commentator, in this, one of the three longest books of the New Testament (Matthew, Luke and Acts are more or less the same length), may well feel on arrival at Puteoli, Appian Forum and Three Taverns that …
Hebrews for Everyone - Today's the Time to Listen
Hebrews for Everyone - Today's the Time to Listen
by SPCK - N T Wright
Today’s the Time to Listen HEBREWS 3.7-13 Some of the party had never seen snow before. One in particular, who had lived all his life in Kenya until coming to university in England, had read about it in books and seen pictures of it, and had tried to imagine what it was like. But…
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Wisdom for the Rulers
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Wisdom for the Rulers
by SPCK - N T Wright
Wisdom for the Rulers Ephesians 3.8-13 There was once a young prince whose distant uncle was king of a great empire. The prince was carefree and happy, neither very rich nor very poor. One day, a great disaster struck. The king, his uncle, was killed in an earthquake, and all the…
Meditation/poem: Suffering was anathema
Meditation/poem: Suffering was anathema
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation/Poem: Suffering was anathema Suffering was anathema, no Messiah died. To grasp what is mystical requires a letting go. A letting go of all things. For the mysterious, the magical, the mystical, that we label God, is so utterly other that the disciples flew from it, bet…
2 Corinthians - The Messiah's Love Makes Us Press On
2 Corinthians - The Messiah's Love Makes Us Press On
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Messiah’s Love Makes Us Press On 2 CORINTHIANS 5.11-15 ‘What on earth made you do that?’ The newspaper reporter was incredulous. A young woman had just won a competition. The first prize was a three-week trip around the world. The chance of a lifetime. And she had given it up…
Monologue/reflection: Who do people say that I am?’
Monologue/reflection: Who do people say that I am?’
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue/Reflection: Who do people say that I am?’ If I wanted to make an impact I'd get an agent, a publicity agent - big campaign, peak time adverts on the TV, sponsorship, all that money could muster. So what was Jesus about, 'Don't tell 'em, Pike!' like that character on '…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Don't Make the Same Mistake Again!
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Don't Make the Same Mistake Again!
by SPCK - N T Wright
Don’t Make the Same the Mistake Again! 1 Corinthians 10.6-13 We got on a bus in a strange city the other day, and to our horror it started to go in quite the wrong direction. Since we don’t speak much of the language it was difficult to ask other passengers, still less the driver…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Do Everything to God's Glory
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Do Everything to God's Glory
by SPCK - N T Wright
Do Everything to God’s Glory 1 Corinthians 10.23-11.1 Some birds seem to spend all day in tiny, small-scale activities. They busy themselves with making nests, grubbing for food, and squawking to each other within a small space. They seem to be severely practical: everything they…
2 Corinthians - Don't Be Mis-Matched
2 Corinthians - Don't Be Mis-Matched
by SPCK - N T Wright
Don’t Be Mis-Matched 2 CORINTHIANS 6.14-7.1 Every time a new Bible translation comes out, it seems, one of the questions people ask about it is whether the language is ‘inclusive’. When it mentions men, does it mention women as well? Does it imply that all Christians are basicall…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Don't Be Deceived