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2 Corinthians - The God of All Comfort
2 Corinthians - The God of All Comfort
by SPCK - N T Wright
The God of All Comfort 2 CORINTHIANS 4.13-18 ‘To Carthage then I came,’ wrote T. S. Eliot in one of his famous poems. One can imagine someone picking up the poem in a bookshop and wondering what on earth he was talking about. Had he gone to the real Carthage, in North Africa? If …
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Servant
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Servant
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Servant Matthew 12.15-21 The bishop sat at his desk and put his head in his hands. Another three letters had just arrived complaining at the way in which a particular parish had changed its style of music. The director of finance had just reported that unless people in the di…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Two Ways
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Two Ways
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Two Ways Matthew 7.13-23 Driving the car these days becomes more and more complicated. On any given stretch of road there are more and more warning signs. ‘Lane closed.’ ‘Mud on Road.’ ‘Slow Farm Vehicles.’ Not to mention signs telling you how fast you’re allowed to drive, wa…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 4 Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - Proper 4 Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
Proper 4 1 Kings 18.20–21 [22–29] 30–39 Galatians 1.1–12 Luke 7.1–10 Elijah calls for fire, but the larger story is about rain. Drought has plagued the land. King Ahab is cross with Elijah, blaming the messenger for the message. Elijah, fresh from his triumph in restoring a boy t…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Last Sunday After Trinity Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Last Sunday After Trinity Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Last Sunday After Trinity Joel 2.23–end 2 Timothy 4.6–8, 16–18 Luke 18.9–14 The harvest and the law court are the lenses through which the prophet gazes, wide-eyed, into God’s future. Rain in abundance – easy to forget, in northern Europe, what a relief that would be in the M…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Final Blessing
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Final Blessing
by SPCK - N T Wright
Final Blessing ROMANS 16.25-27 I watched as the children played in the swimming pool. The water was about four feet deep. Three of them stood side by side, with linked arms. Then they squatted down, with only their noses above water, and two others climbed on to their shoulders. …
Revelation for Everyone - Babylon the Great
Revelation for Everyone - Babylon the Great
by SPCK - N T Wright
Babylon the Great Revelation 17.1-8 They are brought in vans, they are brought in cars with blackened windows, they are brought across the sea, either captured by force or lured with the promise of a better life. They arrive in countries of the West, knowing no one except their c…
John for Everyone Part 1 - Before Abraham, "I Am"
John for Everyone Part 1 - Before Abraham, "I Am"
by SPCK - N T Wright
Before Abraham, “I Am” John 8.48-59 Abraham lived roughly as long before Jesus as Jesus did before us. Speaking of them as in any sense contemporaries conjures up images of time travel, such as has been made famous in the world of science fiction since at least H. G. Wells and Ju…
Revelation for Everyone - "I Am Coming Soon!"
Revelation for Everyone - "I Am Coming Soon!"
by SPCK - N T Wright
“I Am Coming Soon!” Revelation 22.8-21 I stood in the cloister and listened to the bells. To begin with, I could hear each of the ten, clear in the morning air. But gradually, as the order changed and the echoes multiplied in the ancient stone colonnades, they seemed to merge int…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus' True Family
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus' True Family
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus’ True Family Matthew 12.43-50 One of the saddest moments in my pastoral ministry came some years ago when I was contacted by a man in prison. He was coming towards the end of his sentence, having served some years for serious business fraud. During his time in jail he had t…
Revelation for Everyone - Preparing The Final Plagues
Revelation for Everyone - Preparing The Final Plagues
by SPCK - N T Wright
Preparing the Final Plagues Revelation 15.1-8 What is it that attracts people to the Christian message? What is it that draws them to worship the God whom Christians call ‘father’? If you went round your local church and asked people that, you would (I suspect) get a wide variety…
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Spiritual or Merely Human?
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Spiritual or Merely Human?
by SPCK - N T Wright
Spiritual or Merely Human? 1 Corinthians 2.14-3.4 Once, during the ‘hippy’ era in the late 1960s, I sang and played my guitar in a folk club on the west side of Vancouver. I was there a week, and got to know some of the other regular performers quite well. One was a young man wit…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Spiritual or Merely Human
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Spiritual or Merely Human
by SPCK - N T Wright
1 THE WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT SPIRITUAL OR MERELY HUMAN? 1 Corinthians 2: 14-3: 4 Once, during the ‘hippy’ era in the late 1960s, I sang and played my guitar in a folk club on the west side of Vancouver. I was there a week, and got to know some of the other regular performers quite …
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Father's Will
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Father's Will
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Father’s Will John 6.36-46 C. S. Lewis was once interviewed by an American Christian journalist who was writing about well-known characters who had converted to Christianity during adult life. The theme was ‘decision’. He wanted to get Lewis to say how he had ‘made his decisi…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - The Living Stone
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - The Living Stone
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Living Stone 1 Peter 2.4-10 I have never been a great gardener. Among many other reasons – lack of patience, moving house too often – I would name the problem I met the very first time I tried to take control of the small garden outside our first house. It was overgrown and n…
John for Everyone Part 1 - Disputes about Jesus