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The Mystery and the Victory 1 Corinthians 15.50-58 He stood there in baggy jeans, trainers, and an old sweater. ‘You can’t come in like that,’ I said. ‘This is a smart lunch, and we’re the guests. We’ve got to get it right.’ ‘No problem,’ he replied, and within three minutes had …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Transformed Resurrection Body

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Transformed Resurrection Body 1 Corinthians 15.35-49 Imagine standing outside a car showroom, a hundred or more years from now. An advertisement has brought you and lots of others to see a new type of car. Different from all that went before, the slogan had said. ‘Looks prett…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Resurrection Gives Meaning to Present Christian Life

by SPCK - N T Wright

Resurrection Gives Meaning to Present Christian Living 1 Corinthians 15.29-34 We stood in the great Coliseum in Rome, and stared at the chambers and passages underneath where the floor would have been. ‘This is where they kept the wild animals,’ our guide said. ‘They used ropes a…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Reign of the Messiah

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Reign of the Messiah 1 Corinthians 15.20-28 ‘The whole place is a mess. I want you to go in there and tidy it up.’ The chairman of the college council was appointing a new principal, and giving him his marching orders. The college had been in bad shape for a while, and the ti…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - What if the Messiah Wasn't Raised?

by SPCK - N T Wright

What if the Messiah Wasn’t Raised? 1 Corinthians 15.12-19 Robert had longed to play in the school football team. He had watched every game since he had come to the school. He had idolized the players and thought about the different styles of play, the different skills that were n…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Gospel of the Messiah

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Gospel of the Messiah 1 Corinthians 15.1-11 The old man made me a cup of tea, and took me through to his sitting room. ‘Now you must see this,’ he said, passing me a much-handled photograph album. ‘This tells you how we came here.’ The pictures told their own story. The happy…

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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…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Signs for Believers and Unbelievers

by SPCK - N T Wright

Signs for Believers and Unbelievers 1 Corinthians 14.20-25 ‘We need to take an adult attitude to this . . .’ ‘Of course, if we are to approach the problem as adults . . .’ ‘Since we’re all adults here, perhaps I could say . . . ’ What do you think these people are talking about? …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Praying with the Mind as Well as Spirit

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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…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Speaking Clearly in Church

by SPCK - N T Wright

Speaking Clearly in Church 1 Corinthians 14.6-12 Two days ago I went to a meeting where seven or eight different languages were used in quick succession. There was a large crowd being addressed, including people from many parts of the world. One by one the speakers got up and spo…

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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 …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Love: The Bridge to God's Future

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Love: The Bridge to God’s Future 1 Corinthians 13.8-13 When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a young man, living with his father Leopold (himself a fine musician) in Vienna, he is said to have played a trick on him from time to time. Young Wolfgang would come home from spending a riot…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Need for Love and the Character of Love

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Need for Love and the Character of Love 1 Corinthians 12.31b-13.7 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 – …

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Gifts and Ministries

by SPCK - N T Wright

Gifts and Ministries 1 Corinthians 12.27-31a Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, in his autobiography, Unfinished Agenda, tells how he served as secretary to the committee that was drawing up, during the 1940s, the constitution for the newly united Church of South India. The chairman raised…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Responsibilities of Each Member

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Responsibilities of Each Member 1 Corinthians 12.21-26 Two weeks ago, I woke up in the night with sharp and throbbing toothache. Nobody who has ever had that experience will need to be reminded just how all-consuming such pain can suddenly become. I took some painkilling tabl…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Many Members, One Body

by SPCK - N T Wright

Many Members, One Body 1 Corinthians 12.12-20 Paul uses one of his most spectacular and famous illustrations in this and the following passage. It would be gilding the lily to introduce it by another one of our own, so we may as well jump straight to the point. But the point isn’…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - The Same Spirit at Work

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Same Spirit at Work 1 Corinthians 12.1-11 One of the most exciting experiences of my teenage years was playing in an orchestra at school. I had learned the piano for a year or two, but you normally play that without other musicians joining in. Now I began the trombone. Of cou…

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Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Recognizing the Body

by SPCK - N T Wright

Recognizing the Body 1 Corinthians 11.23-34 I once witnessed a moving reconciliation scene, and the most moving thing about it was that no words were necessary. A lay minister had been storing up resentments against the clergyman who was the senior pastor in the church where they…

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