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Hymn: Upon this groaning, quaking earth
Hymn: Upon this groaning, quaking earth
by Andrew Pratt
Upon this groaning, quaking earth we find the evidence of grace, for here, our God, you nurtured love, brought faith and hope within this place. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: ABENDS Metre: LM Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 5/5/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.c…
PENTECOST HYMN - The backwash of rumour unsettles the faithful,
PENTECOST HYMN - The backwash of rumour unsettles the faithful,
by Andrew Pratt
Pentecost hymn that moves from the disciples behind closed doors to a challenge to us to ....go out in the power of that spirit to live lives like Jesus, to cheer and restore the ones who are broken, derided, forsaken, [knowing that]...the future is sure. Tune: Streets of Laredo …
Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians - Don't Make the Same Mistake Again!
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…
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: The Great Crowd
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: The Great Crowd
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith and the Future: The Great Crowd Hebrews 11.32-40 It is said that on one occasion the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila confronted God about her own suffering, and received the response: ‘This is how I deal with my friends.’ ‘Well,’ she replied sharply, ‘in th…
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: Moses and the Exodus
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: Moses and the Exodus
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith and the Future: Moses and the Exodus Hebrews 11.23-32 ‘The young man came from a wealthy family. His father was a well-respected figure in the community. Everyone expected the son to follow him in his profession and, like him, attain wealth and noble standing. But the young…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - False Teachers
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - False Teachers
by SPCK - N T Wright
False Teachers Judah 5-16 One of the great examples of sheer, multiple, many-sided wickedness in recent history is of course the Nazi regime, which, under Adolf Hitler, produced six years of bitter and costly war and the Jewish Holocaust at the same time. All of this, like a mass…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - False Prophets
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - False Prophets
by SPCK - N T Wright
False Prophets 2 Peter 2.1-10a ‘I told you it was easy to get lost.’ Our host stood on the doorstep with a wry smile on his face. We had assumed we more or less knew the way. We have a good sense of direction. We had even been there before; surely we would remember the route once…
Luke for Everyone - Gabriel Visits Zechariah
Luke for Everyone - Gabriel Visits Zechariah
by SPCK - N T Wright
Gabriel Visits Zechariah Luke 1.5-25 The capital of Ireland is the wonderful old city of Dublin. It is famous for many reasons. People go there from all over the world to stroll around its streets, to drink in its pubs, to visit its historic buildings, and to see the places made …
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Covenant with Abraham
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - God's Covenant with Abraham
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Covenant with Abraham ROMANS 4.1-8 Imagine a four-year-old boy who has lost his parents in a terrible war. He is old enough to understand, and to grieve, but nothing like old enough to fend for himself. Some distant relatives look after him for a while, but they haven’t got…
Hebrews for Everyone - God's Unchangeable Promise
Hebrews for Everyone - God's Unchangeable Promise
by SPCK - N T Wright
God’s Unchangeable Promise Hebrews 6.13-20 ‘What’s that, then?’ The little boy tugged at my hand and pointed to a large, ugly metal object prominently displayed near the front of the ship which was gliding by. I took him a little further along the quay, and we came to another shi…
Hebrews for Everyone - Hold on Tight!
Hebrews for Everyone - Hold on Tight!
by SPCK - N T Wright
Hold on Tight! HEBREWS 3.14-19 Nobody wants to fall asleep while driving a car. But a remarkable number of people do it. In the UK at least, there are now signs on the major roads that warn motorists of the danger of sleepy driving. ‘Tiredness can kill,’ they say. You’d think it …
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Humans Reject God and Embrace Corruption
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Humans Reject God and Embrace Corruption
by SPCK - N T Wright
Humans Reject God and Embrace Corruption ROMANS 1.18-23 I have just watched a large copper beech tree being felled. It was a difficult and dangerous job for those engaged in it, and I was fascinated to see how they went about their work, with ropes and other climbing equipment as…
Luke for Everyone - Jairus's Daughter and the Woman with Chronic Bleeding
Luke for Everyone - Jairus's Daughter and the Woman with Chronic Bleeding
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jairus’s Daughter and the Woman with Chronic Bleeding Luke 8.40-56 We don’t know for sure that Luke was a doctor, though there are several things in his work that make it likely, as well as Paul’s mention of him as ‘Luke, the beloved doctor’ (Colossians 4.14). But if he was, ther…
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus and Thomas
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus and Thomas
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus and Thomas John 20.24-31 Out of my window I can see a clock. A large and famous clock, on a great public building. It’s lit up at night, and you can see it from many parts of the city. As I write this, it has just struck the hour. Consider the journey that the clock makes f…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Living Together in the Messiah
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Living Together in the Messiah
by SPCK - N T Wright
Living Together in the Messiah ROMANS 12.6-13 The seven friends met, as they had arranged, at ten o’clock the next morning. It had been a late night. They had all been excited. Now they were a little apprehensive at how they were going to take the project forward. They had discov…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Living in a Pagan World
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Living in a Pagan World
by SPCK - N T Wright
Living in a Pagan World 1 Peter 2.11-17 I woke up gradually that morning. I had been tired out by the events of the previous day, and I had been sleeping so deeply that I seemed to be emerging slowly from a warm, dark tunnel. It’s not an unpleasant feeling, but when eventually I …
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Marriage and Its Challenges
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Marriage and Its Challenges
by SPCK - N T Wright
Marriage and Its Challenges 1 Peter 3.1-7 I remember a wise preacher pointing out that even when people are free to make up their own minds and form their own decisions, most of them quickly find a framework to fit into. They adopt a stereotype; they fit into a pattern; they beha…
The Pastoral Letters - Paul as an Example of God's Saving Grace