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Children of the Light Thessalonians 5.1-11 The story is told of a minister who dreamed that he was preaching a sermon, and woke up to find it was true. One can hardly imagine that happening to St Paul – although there is the famous story of the lad who nodded off during one of Pa…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Lord's Coming

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Lord’s Coming Thessalonians 4.13-18 How do you describe the colour blue to a blind person? If someone has never been able to see, how can you even convey the idea of colour, let alone the difference between colours? That difficulty faces Christians whenever we talk about the …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - A Life of Love

by SPCK - N T Wright

A Life of Love Thessalonians 4.9-12 ‘I don’t care too much for money,’ sang the Beatles (ironically, just as they were earning millions); ‘Money can’t buy me love.’ Now that is of course true. But ‘love’ is a strange word in most languages, and there are connections between love …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Instructions on Holy Living

by SPCK - N T Wright

Instructions on Holy Living Thessalonians 4.1-8 St Francis, famously, referred to his own body as ‘brother donkey’. It was a beloved part of himself, and yet it often seemed to have a mind of its own. It needed taming, bringing into obedience, as one would teach a large and heads…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Paul's Words of Blessing

by SPCK - N T Wright

Paul’s Words of Blessing Thessalonians 3.11-13 Prayer and music have always gone together in the Christian church, and another musical illustration may help us find ways of making Paul’s prayers our own. When children begin to learn a musical instrument, or to sing, the teacher o…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Timothy's Report

by SPCK - N T Wright

Timothy’s Report Thessalonians 3.6-10 Learning to read Paul is a bit like learning to enjoy great music. It’s quite easy to whistle a tune that you’ve heard on the radio or sung in church. The tune probably only lasts for ten seconds or so, and you can recognize and remember it. …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Sending of Timothy

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Sending of Timothy Thessalonians 3.1-5 The young adult daughter of some friends of ours went on a trip round the world, and was so enjoying life that, at one stage, she didn’t phone home for several weeks. Her parents had no way of getting in touch, and were beside themselves…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Paul's Joy and Crown

by SPCK - N T Wright

Paul’s Joy and Crown Thessalonians 2.17-20 There were tear-jerking scenes on the television last night. Twin baby girls had been adopted by a couple from another country, who had found the children being advertised for adoption over the Internet. But another couple, from the chil…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Persecuted Church

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Persecuted Church Thessalonians 2.13-16 The day started clear and bright, with not a cloud in the sky. My son and I set off to climb in the mountains with every hope that the weather would hold. But as we reached the top of our first peak, a shock awaited us. We were climbing…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Paul's Fatherly Concern

by SPCK - N T Wright

Paul’s Fatherly Concern Thessalonians 2.9-12 Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Paul’s missionary work is that when he arrived in a new town the people there had quite literally never seen anything of the sort before. They had seen other travelling teachers, but none like th…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Paul's Ministry to Thessalonica

by SPCK - N T Wright

Paul’s Ministry to Thessalonica Thessalonians 2.1-8 The ancient world, like the modern one, learned to be cynical about almost everything. If a letter arrives offering me a wonderful free gift, I know it’s a trap to lure me into paying for something I don’t really want. If someon…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Thessalonians' Faith

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Thessalonians’ Faith Thessalonians 1.6-10 ‘Well,’ I said last week when my son came home from a movie, ‘did you enjoy it?’ I knew the answer as I asked the question. The movie was OK, but not that great. If he’d really enjoyed it, I wouldn’t have had to ask. He would have com…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Gospel Comes to Thessalonica

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Gospel Comes to Thessalonica Thessalonians 1.1-5 I hesitated long over the decision. I had to make up my mind whether to admit to the university a student whose grades were not quite as high as we would normally require. She was clearly intelligent, and capable of hard work, …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Boasting in the Cross

by SPCK - N T Wright

Boasting in the Cross Galatians 6.11-18 At least half of all the items that come through my letter-box each day are what we loosely call ‘junk mail’. Often I receive letters which, though they may have my name at the top, have in fact been mass-produced by a computer as part of a…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Practical Support in the Church

by SPCK - N T Wright

Practical Support in the Church Galatians 6.6-10 For some years I helped to organize a fund-raising campaign for a church. It was a good cause, lots of people wanted to help, there was great enthusiasm and initiative, and eventually the money was raised. But I found it one of the…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Bearing One Another's Burdens

by SPCK - N T Wright

Bearing One Another’s Burdens Galatians 6.1-5 I was reading the autobiography of a world-famous cricketer. He described how for his first ten years in the game the team he played for never succeeded in winning a major trophy. They had star players, many of them of much better qua…

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Fruit of the Spirit

by SPCK - N T Wright

Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5.22-26 The Christmas decorations were spectacular. I went down the street from store to store, and in each window – and indeed in the street itself – there were pretty lights and multicoloured decorations. Every shop seemed to have sparkling trees, …

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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Law and the Spirit

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Law and the Spirit Galatians 5.13-21 In the middle of Oxford University there stands a wonderful building, surrounded by well-kept grass. The building is a library, circular in shape, topped by a great dome. It is beautiful inside and out. People photograph it, paint it, admi…

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