Search Results
2 Corinthians - The Letter and the Spirit
2 Corinthians - The Letter and the Spirit
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Letter and the Spirit 2 CORINTHIANS 3.1-6 ‘I had to write a letter of recommendation last week. One of my former students is job-hunting, and the people who run the college he has applied to don’t know him, or not very well; so it is up to me to write to them, in a formal way…
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Sower
Luke for Everyone - The Parable of the Sower
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Parable of the Sower Luke 8.1-15 If Jesus was telling this story today, he might well include other categories as well. What about the seeds that were planted in good soil but were ruined by acid rain? What about the plants that were coming up nicely but were bulldozed by occ…
Mark for Everyone - The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter
Mark for Everyone - The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 5.35–43The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter... ...Right on cue, as the suspense heightens, messengers come to tell Jairus that his daughter has now died. He shouldn’t bother Jesus any longer. Telling Jairus not to be afraid, and just to believe, in that setting…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Searcher of Hearts
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Searcher of Hearts
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 1 NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING ON PRAYER THE TEACHING OF PAUL THE SEARCHER OF HEARTS Romans 8: 22-23, 26-27 How many names can you think of for God? It may sound an odd question. God’s proper name in the Old Testament is of course YHWH; but he is referred to in a great many other …
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - The Storm and the Angel
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - The Storm and the Angel
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Storm and the Angel Acts 27.13-32 It’s a long time since I’ve been seasick, but the last time I came close to it I was more or less in the same place as Paul in the middle of this storm. I was doing some guest lectures, and taking some services, on a cruise ship (the things c…
Mark for Everyone - The Syrophoenician Woman
Mark for Everyone - The Syrophoenician Woman
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 7.24–30 The Syrophoenician Woman... ...Not just another healing, more a political incident. This very odd story has all the trappings of a dangerous event for Jesus, and Mark helps us to understand it by the way he’s linked it to what went before. We’ve jus…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Sympathetic High Priest
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - The Sympathetic High Priest
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 1 NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING ON PRAYER OTHER CHRISTIAN TEACHING THE SYMPATHETIC HIGH PRIEST Hebrews 4: 14-16 I have just finished reading a fascinating wartime diary, written by an Anglican clergyman who was captured by the Germans in 1940 and spent the next five years in variou…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Triumphant Reign of Grace
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - The Triumphant Reign of Grace
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Triumphant Reign of Grace ROMANS 5.18-21 God has done it; God will do it. That is the message of this dramatic little passage, summing up the whole story of the letter so far. That might sound strange, since the word ‘God’ doesn’t occur in these verses. But what Paul has done…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - The Word of Life
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - The Word of Life
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Word of Life 1 John 1. 1-4 ‘I have seen the future; and it works.’ That notorious statement was made by an American journalist, Lincoln Steffens, in 1919. He had just returned from a visit to the recently established ‘Soviet Union’, formed on Marxist principles after the Russ…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Weak and the Strong
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Weak and the Strong
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Weak and the Strong ROMANS 14.1-6 We have a friend whose son is a vegetarian. She was describing to us today how she has learned to cook special meals for him – and what sort of compromises with the code he has been prepared to make. In today’s Western world, vegetarianism ha…
Revelation for Everyone - The Woman and the Dragon
Revelation for Everyone - The Woman and the Dragon
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Woman and the Dragon Revelation 12.1-6 I once attended a memorial service for a famous sportsman, a cricketer who had been a boyhood hero for me and for many others. The church was packed, and a special place was reserved for other cricketers who had played with or against th…
The Pastoral Letters - What to Do with Money
The Pastoral Letters - What to Do with Money
by SPCK - N T Wright
What to Do with Money 1Timothy 6.17-21 ‘We’d have been all right if it hadn’t been for the stock-market crash.’ He was a delightful man, full of kindness and fun, looking back on a long and exciting life. He had travelled widely, met lots of interesting people, written books, cli…
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Wisdom and Gratitude
New Testament Prayer for Everyone - Wisdom and Gratitude
by SPCK - N T Wright
PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PRAYERS OF PAUL WISDOM AND GRATITUDE Colossians 1: 9-14 We watched, holding our breath, as the mother duck left the pond at the head of her brood. There were seven ducklings in all: four black ones and three yellow ones. They were lively and sq…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Wisdom For The Rulers
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Wisdom For The Rulers
by SPCK - N T Wright
5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD WISDOM FOR THE RULERS Ephesians 3: 8-13 There was once a young prince whose distant uncle was king of a great empire. The prince was carefree and happy, neither very rich nor very poor. One day, a great disaster struck. The king, his uncle, was killed i…
Isaiah for Everyone - A Day When There Will Be a Song to Sing
Isaiah for Everyone - A Day When There Will Be a Song to Sing
by SPCK - John Goldingay
A Day When There Will Be a Song to Sing Our city’s annual Black History Parade this year had the theme “Looking back and remembering: we’ve come a mighty long way.” The words reminded me of the hymn, “We’ve Come This Far by Faith.”…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - An Implausible Promise
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - An Implausible Promise
by SPCK - John Goldingay
An Implausible Promise Genesis 13: 14-18 I can recall two promises God made to me that seemed unlikely to be fulfilled. Both date from about the time I became principal of a theological college in England, which in U.S. terms is a cross between being a seminary president, provost…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Blood Cries Out
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Blood Cries Out
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Blood Cries Out Genesis 4: 10-13 I write the week after bombings and attacks in Mumbai that killed hundreds of people. “This is our 9/11,” many Indians said. They did not merely mean that these were attacks on a vast and savage scale, carried out with unprecedented sophistication…
Job for Everyone - Comforters? More like Troublemakers