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Children, Parents, Slaves and Masters Ephesians 6.1-9 My first experience of a building site was disillusioning. I was part of the work crew building a factory. (I did the job for four weeks during a university holiday.) Right from the start it became clear that, with only one ex…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Christ the Seed, Christ the Mediator

by SPCK - N T Wright

Christ the Seed, Christ the Mediator Galatians 3.15-22 ‘It’s what he would have wanted.’ How often has that phrase been used to settle an argument, when someone has died and the family are trying to organize the funeral, or the disposal of property, or the appropriate way to brin…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Citizens of Heaven

by SPCK - N T Wright

Citizens of Heaven Philippians 3.17-4.1 The word ‘colony’ today is not exactly popular. It rings of the old days of imperialism, when several European countries were expanding their influence in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and were vying with each other to see who could grab …

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Closing Thanks and Greetings

by SPCK - N T Wright

Closing Thanks and Greetings Philippians 4.14-23 Sometimes when you get to the end of a novel or short story, there is a moment when something is revealed that makes sense of a mood, a motive, a feeling that has been in the narrative all along. At last we understand why that man …

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Coming to Rome at Last

by SPCK - N T Wright

Coming to Rome at Last ROMANS 15.14-24 I mentioned earlier in this book how, when my family and I first moved to North America, we were struck again and again at the thought of what the pioneers had achieved in such very recent history. They had navigated uncharted rivers, climbe…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Commending Phoebe, Greeting Friends

by SPCK - N T Wright

Commending Phoebe, Greeting Friends ROMANS 16.1-16 A farmer in the English Midlands was ploughing a field when the plough struck a solid object. Thinking it was a large rock, he stopped to move it. But it wasn’t a rock. It was an ancient chest, dating (so the museum told him when…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Creation Renewed and Patient Hope

by SPCK - N T Wright

Creation Renewed and Patient Hope ROMANS 8.18-25 I walked through the wood several times before I realized what the signpost meant. The wood was thick, with paths leading this way and that. I knew some of them quite well, and had my favourites among them. There was the one that l…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Darkened Mind, Darkened Behaviour

by SPCK - N T Wright

Darkened Mind, Darkened Behaviour ROMANS 1.28-32 Some years ago I attended a prize-giving at a local school. The headmaster made an entertaining speech, in the course of which he read out, without telling us who had written it or when, a long description of how the younger genera…

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Paul for Everyone The Prison Letters - Darkness and Light in Matters of Sex

by SPCK - N T Wright

Darkness and Light In Matters of Sex Ephesians 5.3-10 The poster in the college gateway had one large word in the middle of it: SEX. Underneath, in small print, it said, ‘Now you’re interested, how about joining the College Rowing Club?’ Whoever designed the poster wasn’t suggest…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Dead to Sin, Alive to God

by SPCK - N T Wright

Dead to Sin, Alive to God ROMANS 6.6-11 From time to time I hear of someone who has suffered a bad accident, or a particular kind of illness, and can no longer remember who they are. It must be deeply disturbing – both for the person concerned and for those trying to help. We are…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Divided Loyalties

by SPCK - N T Wright

Divided Loyalties 1 Corinthians 7.32-40 He came to see me both excited and distressed. He was one of the brightest students I had ever taught at that time; but he was also passionately involved in the plight of some of the poorest people in the world. Most of his fellow students …

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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…

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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…

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Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Dying to the Law

by SPCK - N T Wright

Dying to the Law ROMANS 7.1-6 I have done my best, in this book and the others like it, to use illustrations which will help my readers get to the heart of the point in each passage. Some reviewers have questioned both the wisdom of this attempt and my skill in achieving it, but …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Everything Belongs to You

by SPCK - N T Wright

Everything Belongs to You 1 Corinthians 3.18-23 I remember a wise address given at a graduation ceremony by a respected senior professor. (I was present in order to say the opening prayer.) In his address, the great man said many things, and gave a lot of good advice, but the one…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Exhortation to Steadfastness

by SPCK - N T Wright

Exhortation to Steadfastness 2 Thessalonians 2.13-17 ‘Stand firm and hold on tight.’ When did you last hear those words? On an airport bus, perhaps, taking you from the terminal building to the plane. On a boat ferrying passengers across a busy river. On a narrow mountain ledge w…

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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. …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Final Blessings and Charge

by SPCK - N T Wright

Final Blessings and Charge Thessalonians 5.23-28 When I was ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament, I received many cards and letters wishing me well and assuring me of the prayers and support of family and friends. The one that made the deepest impression on me at the ti…

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