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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Final Instructions for Worship
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Final Instructions for Worship
by SPCK - N T Wright
Final Instructions for Worship 1 Corinthians 14.26-40 ‘Last night I stood in awe at a mosaic dating from the sixth century. It is a picture of Jesus himself, ‘coming on the clouds’, and it’s in the domed apse above the altar in a church in Rome. Peter and Paul are standing on eit
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Glossary
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Glossary
by SPCK - N T Wright
GLOSSARY age to come, see present age apostle, disciple, the Twelve ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul sees not only himself b
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Glossary
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Glossary
by SPCK - N T Wright
GLOSSARY age to come, see present age apostle, disciple, the Twelve ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul sees not only himself b
Hebrews for Everyone - Glossary
Hebrews for Everyone - Glossary
by SPCK - N T Wright
GLOSSARY age to come, see present age apostle, disciple, the Twelve ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul sees not only himself b
The Pastoral Letters - Glossary
The Pastoral Letters - Glossary
by SPCK - N T Wright
GLOSSARY accuser, see the satan age to come, see present age apostle, disciple, the Twelve ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul
2 Corinthians - Glossary
2 Corinthians - Glossary
by SPCK - N T Wright
GLOSSARY accuser, see the satan age to come, see present age apostle, disciple, the Twelve ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Glossary
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Glossary
by SPCK - N T Wright
GLOSSARY apostle, disciple ‘Apostle’ means ‘one who is sent’. It could be used of an ambassador or official delegate. In the New Testament it is sometimes used specifically of Jesus’ inner circle of twelve; but Paul sees not only himself but several others outside the Twelve as ‘
Luke for Everyone - Jesus is Arrested
Luke for Everyone - Jesus is Arrested
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus is Arrested Luke 22.39-53 One of the most noticeable changes in my life in the last 30 years – apart from increasing baldness – has been my changing attitude to one of the sports that I loved as a young man. I learned to rock-climb when I was at school, and for ten or more
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Life Within Marriage
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Life Within Marriage
by SPCK - N T Wright
Life Within Marriage 1 Corinthians 7.1-7 I was staying for a week in the suburbs of an American city where I hadn’t been before. I had some free time lined up, and after a long flight and many hours at a desk I fancied going for a good walk. I asked my host where he would recomme
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Love: The Bridge to God's Future
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Love: The Bridge to God's Future
by SPCK - N T Wright
Love: The Bridge to God’s Future 1 Corinthians 14.1-5 One morning many centuries ago, two builders went off to work. The first walked through the twisting streets of the old town until he came to the little plot of land where he was labouring steadily day by day. He was building
Luke for Everyone - Loving Your Enemies
Luke for Everyone - Loving Your Enemies
by SPCK - N T Wright
Loving Your Enemies Luke 6.27-38 One of the greatest Jewish scholars to write about Jesus in the modern age was David Flusser, who taught for many years at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. But not everyone approved of his scholarship; and one of his most brilliant students, vi
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Respecting Weak Consciences
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Respecting Weak Consciences
by SPCK - N T Wright
Respecting Weak Consciences 1 Corinthians 8.7-13 I never found out what had really been wrong, but it could have been serious. I was leading a party of walkers in the Scottish highlands, and we found ourselves high up among the crags when the mist came down. I got out the compass
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - The End is Where We Start From
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - The End is Where We Start From
by SPCK - N T Wright
The End is Where We Start FromActs 28.23-31 When I was an undergraduate, I played the trombone (badly) in various instant home-made orchestras. There were plenty of budding conductors around, eager to try out their skills, and they would organize concerts at a couple of weeks’
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Dying and the Rising with Christ
Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - The Dying and the Rising with Christ
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Dying and the Rising with Christ Colossians 2.20-3.4 ‘I’ll just be two minutes,’ I said, leaving my friends on the street corner while I went to fetch the car. It was raining, and we’d just come out of the theatre. But I wasn’t two minutes. I took more like ten. They were sta
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Introduction
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
INTRODUCTION On the very first occasion when someone stood up in public to tell people about Jesus, he made it very clear: this message is for everyone. It was a great day – sometimes called the birthday of the church. The great wind of God’s spirit had swept through Jesus’ follo
Luke for Everyone - Peter Denies Jesus
Luke for Everyone - Peter Denies Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
Peter Denies Jesus Luke 22.54-71 I was fortunate enough to be involved in a service commemorating the life and witness of Wang Zhiming. He was a Chinese pastor who, after maintaining a clear Christian witness in the days of Mao’s cultural revolution, was executed in front of a la
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Praying with the Mind as Well as Spirit
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Praying with the Mind as Well as Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
Praying with Mind as Well as Spirit 1 Corinthians 14.13-19 Paul for Everyone When you look at another person, what do you see? I don’t mean what shape, what colour, what size of person are you looking at; I mean, how do you think about who they are? How do you observe them as a w
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Dangers of Idleness