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Acts for Everyone part 1 - Disaster

by SPCK - N T Wright

Disaster Acts 5.1-11 Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great Victorian Baptist preacher, recounted the story of how, on one occasion, he was preaching as usual when he found himself denouncing some- one in the congregation whom he didn’t know. Words came into his mouth describing how …

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - Look Upon Their Threats

by SPCK - N T Wright

Look upon Their Threats Acts 4. 23-31 In the early summer of 1989, I went to Jerusalem to teach, and to work on a couple of books, one of which was about Jesus himself. One day, sitting in my borrowed room at St George’s Cathedral, I was struggling with a few pages I was trying t…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - The Clash of Loyalties

by SPCK - N T Wright

The Clash of Loyalties Acts 4. 13-22 Jennifer was teaching some basic geography to a class of eight- year-olds. They were studying Australia. They had just drawn a rough map together, and had worked out where the main cities were. Then Jennifer asked the class if anyone could say…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - Resurrection Plus the name of Jesus equals trouble

by SPCK - N T Wright

Resurrection Plus the Name of Jesus Equals Trouble Acts 4.1-12 I cherish the remark attributed to a bishop who complained that he didn’t seem to be having the same impact as the first apostles. ‘Everywhere St Paul went,’ he said, ‘there was a riot. Everywhere I go they serve tea.…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - Restoration and Refreshment

by SPCK - N T Wright

Restoration and Refreshment Acts 3.17-26 I remember a hot, hot walk in the Scottish highlands. (It’s true: there are times, even at altitudes of 4,000 feet, when you can be just as hot in Scotland as anywhere in Europe.) We climbed Braeriach and Cairn Toul, the third and fourth h…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - An Explanation is called for

by SPCK - N T Wright

An Explanation is Called for Acts 3.11-16 ‘How did you do that?’ I stood beside the car as it spluttered into life. I had fiddled and jiggled with everything I could, and hadn’t been able to make it start. (This, I should say, was a long time ago, in the days when you could poke …

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - More than He Bargained for

by SPCK - N T Wright

There was once a young man who sneaked into church hoping nobody would notice him. The only reason he’d come was because he was keen on a girl who sang in the choir, and he hoped that if he was in the service he’d be able to see her at the end of the service and ask her out. He w…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - The New Family

by SPCK - N T Wright

A couple of years ago I took part in a charity walk. It was a sunny day, there were thousands of people taking part, and we went through some breathtaking scenery. We were put in several groups, with a few hundred setting off every few minutes. I was in the first group, and it wa…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - God's Rescue Plan

by SPCK - N T Wright

God’s Rescue Plan Acts 2.37-41 It’s one thing to discover you are driving along the wrong road. It may be frustrating, and even embarrassing if you have people in the car who thought you knew where you were going. But you can at least admit the mistake, turn round and set off aga…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - David Speaks of Jesus' Resurrection

by SPCK - N T Wright

David Speaks of Jesus’ Resurrection Acts 2. 22-36 I watched the Press Gallery during the speech. For most of the time, the journalists looked bored. One was sharpening his pencil; another was varnishing her nails. Then, quite suddenly, all that changed. Notebooks were seized, sho…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - New Words for New News

by SPCK - N T Wright

New Words for New News Acts 2. 5-13 ‘These men are all Galileans, aren’t they?’ they said. 8‘So how is it that each of us can hear them in our own mother tongues? 9There are Parthians here, and Medians, Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judaea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10Phrygi…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - Here Comes the Power

by SPCK - N T Wright

Here Comes the Power Acts 2. 1-4 Sometimes a name, belonging to one particular person, becomes so attached to a particular object or product that we forget where it originally came from. The obvious example is ‘Hoover’: in England at least we speak of ‘the Hoover’ when we mean ‘t…

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Prayer: All sufficient God and shepherd – responsive prayer

by Andrew Pratt

Prayer: All sufficient God and shepherd–responsive prayer All sufficient God and shepherd, lover of creation, walking with us on life's journey, offering protection. When the darkness folds around us, clouds obscure our vision, you are there, you never leave us, guiding each deci…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - Restoring the Twelve

by SPCK - N T Wright

Restoring the twelve Acts 1.15-26 The older I get, the more I dislike trying to follow the complicated instructions that come with new technology. I’m not what they call technophobic. On the desk where I am working there is a computer. It is linked to a cell phone which includes …

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - Ascension!

by SPCK - N T Wright

Ascension! Acts 1.9-14 We were having supper with some friends who had recently moved to western Canada. ‘So,’ my wife began, ‘does Vancouver feel like home?’ ‘It’s not home,’ replied the wife energetically. ‘It’s heaven!’ ‘Well, my dear,’ commented her husband, a theologian, rep…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - When, What and How?

by SPCK - N T Wright

When, What and How? Acts 1.6-8 ‘Are we nearly there yet?’ Any parent who has been on a car journey with small children will know the question – and the tone of voice in which it’s usually asked. Sometimes the child is so eager (or so bored), so quickly, that the question gets ask…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - Here Comes the Sequel

by SPCK - N T Wright

Here Comes the Sequel!Acts 1.1-5 The English playwright Alan Bennett wrote a famous play about the equally famous madness of a well-known king. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, England had four kings in succession all called ‘George’, and the third of them – George I…

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Acts for Everyone part 1 - 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…

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