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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Love, the Law and the Coming Day
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Love, the Law and the Coming Day
by SPCK - N T Wright
Love, Law and the Coming Day ROMANS 13.8-14 When I was at boarding school, I often used to wake up early on summer mornings as the daylight came streaming in from four or five o’clock onwards. I often used to think how silly it was not to get up then. Frequently the day would be …
Fortynine days to celebrate Easter - Pente - What?
Fortynine days to celebrate Easter - Pente - What?
by Margaret Mason
"Forty-nine days to celebrate Easter? That's seven weeks. We'll never make the Easter eggs last that long! And then Pente - what? " Pilate stamps the file, "Case Closed". He thinks that that is it. A distasteful business, but Jesus the Galilean isn't the first troublemaker he's b…
New Jerusalem
New Jerusalem
by Andrew T Murphy
Seen alongside William Blake's original poem, this is a reworking for Christian congregations, using the same tune (by Parry). Suitable especially for occasions where 'Jerusalem' is requested but the words of the original are not relevant. The first verse deals with the mystery…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday of Easter Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Third Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Third Sunday of Easter Acts 3.12-19 1 John 3.1-7 Luke 24.36-48 The ancient world knew all about ghosts, visions, apparitions, and spooks. Ancient literature has plenty of people being found alive after being supposed dead, plenty of spirits of the dead returning to haunt, spy…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Second Sunday Before Advent Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday Before Advent Daniel 12.1-3 Hebrews 10.11-14 [15-18] 19-25 Mark 13.1-8 The lady in the icon shop may not have understood my English, let alone my Greek. Did she have an icon of Jesus’ resurrection? Yes, she said, pointing at the wall behind her head. There it wa…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Apollos in Ephesus and Corinth
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Apollos in Ephesus and Corinth
by SPCK - N T Wright
Apollos in Ephesus and Corinth Acts 18.18-28 These days people will do anything for sponsorship. Recently a Christian leader made well over a million pounds (roughly US$2 million) by running in the London Marathon. I once had a colleague who made a lot of money for his church by …
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - God Calls a Remnant
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - God Calls a Remnant
by SPCK - N T Wright
God Calls a Remnant ROMANS 9.25-29 The Beatles once recorded a song called ‘Nowhere Man’. It grew out of a casual, dismissive remark one of them had made about somebody they’d just met: ‘He’s a real “nowhere man”.’ It was meant as a scornful put-down, and if the person they were …
Mark for Everyone - More Seed Parables
Mark for Everyone - More Seed Parables
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 4.26–34 More Seed Parables... ...I have always enjoyed listening to good choirs. I have even, on rare occasions, sung in one or two, in fear and trembling lest my amateur ability should reveal itself by a wrong note, a fluffed entry, or – that dread moment …
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 1 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 1 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 1 Isaiah 6.1–13 1 Corinthians 15.1–11 Luke 5.1–11 ‘The holy seed is its stump.’ Isaiah’s vision in the Temple leaves him with a dreadful commission, to inform God’s people of inevitable exile. The nation will be like a tree felled and burnt. But when the worst has occurred…
Mark for Everyone - Questions about Fasting
Mark for Everyone - Questions about Fasting
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 2.18–22 Questions about Fasting... ...When I was a boy there was a craze for ginger-beer plants. An uncle gave us the starter kit, including the bacteria that, by a process I never understood, produced the secret ingredient that gave the homemade brew its f…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Call of Matthew
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Call of Matthew
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Call of Matthew Matthew 9.9-17 I was a teenager in the famous 1960s. Revolution was in the air. Protests, especially among young people, were the order of the day. Young Americans protested against the Vietnam war. Students in Paris told factory workers they had nothing to lo…
2 Corinthians - The Letter and the Spirit
2 Corinthians - The Letter and the Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Letter and the Spirit 2 CORINTHIANS 3.1-6 ‘I had to write a letter of recommendation last week. One of my former students is job-hunting, and the people who run the college he has applied to don’t know him, or not very well; so it is up to me to write to them, in a formal way…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 5.27–32 Revelation 1.4–8 John 20.19–end The report of Jesus’ resurrection strikes the chief priests as a threat of God’s judgement. Yes and no, reply the apostles: your guilt is swallowed up in the message of forgiveness, of new Spirit-given life.…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Triumphant Reign of Grace
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Triumphant Reign of Grace
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Triumphant Reign of Grace ROMANS 5.18-21 God has done it; God will do it. That is the message of this dramatic little passage, summing up the whole story of the letter so far. That might sound strange, since the word ‘God’ doesn’t occur in these verses. But what Paul has done…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - The Word of Life
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - The Word of Life
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Word of Life 1 John 1. 1-4 ‘I have seen the future; and it works.’ That notorious statement was made by an American journalist, Lincoln Steffens, in 1919. He had just returned from a visit to the recently established ‘Soviet Union’, formed on Marxist principles after the Russ…
2 Corinthians - A House Waiting in the Heavens
2 Corinthians - A House Waiting in the Heavens
by SPCK - N T Wright
A House Waiting in the Heavens 2 CORINTHIANS 5.1-5 ‘Life after death is one of the greatest mysteries in the world, but there’s no need to make it more mysterious than it should be. I recently went for the first time to the magnificent Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, beside St Pet…
LWPT Meditations - Fifth Sunday in Lent - Year A