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2 Corinthians - The Sign of a True Apostle
2 Corinthians - The Sign of a True Apostle
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Signs of a True Apostle 2 CORINTHIANS 12.11-18 All the time I have been writing this book, great events have been going on around me. A royal death, followed by the lying-in-state, the official mourning, and then the majestic and solemn funeral, have made the whole country pa…
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - The Birthday Party - 1
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - The Birthday Party - 1
by SPCK - Tom Wright
1 The Birthday Party Part One HOW IT ALL BEGAN The Meal Jesus Gave Us You are just sitting down to the table. It is your ten-year-old sister’s birthday party. (If you’re too old to have a ten-year-old sister, think of your daughter, your niece or your granddaughter.) Everything i…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Wise And Foolish Girls
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Wise And Foolish Girls
by SPCK - N T Wright
4 THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE THE WISE AND FOOLISH GIRLS Matthew 25: 1-13 The guests had all arrived and were seated. The organ was playing. The bridegroom and the best man had been there half an hour in advance. The photographers were waiting. The flowers had all been beautifully a…
Simply Jesus - At the heart of the storm
Simply Jesus - At the heart of the storm
by SPCK - N T Wright
At the heart of the storm With all of this now on the table, we return to the perfect storm: to the build-up of pressure from the Roman Empire in one direction, the thousand-year hope of Israel from another direction, and the cyclone itself, the strange and powerful purposes of G…
Simply Jesus - Battle and Temple
Simply Jesus - Battle and Temple
by SPCK - N T Wright
Battle and Temple First, the battle. Whether we look at the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5—7 or the Nazareth Manifesto in Luke 4; whether we look at the strange language about ‘binding the strong man’ in Matthew 12 or the even stranger language about the ‘coming of the son of m…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Appendix
Scripture and the Authority of God - Appendix
by SPCK - N T Wright
Appendix Getting Started on Bible Study Those who want to get into the study of scripture for themselves – and studying scripture is, in the end, far more profitable than theorizing about it – will find a wealth of material to help them. What follows is only a small selection, wh…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Character Of Love
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Character Of Love
by SPCK - N T Wright
3 THE GREAEST OF THE VIRTUES THE CHARACTER OF LOVE 1 Corinthians 13: 1-7 When people say, as they sometimes do, that Paul must have been a very difficult person to have around – that he seems to have been awkward, cantankerous, argumentative, and generally an unpleasant character…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Authority of Scripture as Part of a Larger Whole
Scripture and the Authority of God - Authority of Scripture as Part of a Larger Whole
by SPCK - N T Wright
“Authority of Scripture” as Part of a Larger Whole ‘Authority of Scripture’ is a Shorthand for God’s Authority Exercised through Scripture We now arrive at the central claim of this book: that the phrase ‘authority of scripture’ can only make Christian sense if it is a shorthand …
Scripture and the Authority of God - Preface
Scripture and the Authority of God - Preface
by SPCK - N T Wright
Preface Scripture and the Authority of God Writing a book about the Bible is like building a sandcastle in front of the Matterhorn. The best you can hope to do is to catch the eye of those who were looking down instead of up, or those who were so familiar with the skyline that th…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within Christianity
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture within Christianity
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture within Christianity: the First 1,500 Years The place and role of the Bible within the church’s mission and common life is once again heavily contested. Current ‘battles for the Bible’ in various parts of the church – not least, but not only, within debates about sexual …
Simply Jesus - Preface
Simply Jesus - Preface
by SPCK - N T Wright
Preface Jesus of Nazareth poses a question and a challenge two thousand years after his lifetime. The question is fairly simple: who exactly was he? This includes the questions, What did he think he was up to? What did he do and say, why was he killed, and did he rise from the de…
Simply Jesus - Why did the Messiah have to die?
Simply Jesus - Why did the Messiah have to die?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Why did the Messiah have to die? Layer upon layer it comes, dense and rich within the texts, echo upon echo, allusion and resonance tumbling over one another, so that for those with ears to hear it becomes unmissable, a crescendo of questions to which in the end there can be only…
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…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Wise and Wicked Girls
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Wise and Wicked Girls
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Wise and Wicked Girls Matthew 25.1-13 The guests had all arrived and were seated. The organ was playing. The bridegroom and the best man had been there half an hour in advance. The photographers were waiting. The flowers had all been beautifully arranged. The choir had practi…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Paying Taxes to Caesar