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Monday of Holy Week Service
Monday of Holy Week Service
by Marjorie Dobson
Monday of Holy Week - Complete Act of Worship (SLIGHTLY AMENDED VERSION OF THE TEXT ALREADY ON TWELVEBASKETS) John 12: 1-11, Mark 14: 1-9 Drama: The Woman and the Perfume The woman and the perfume (A complete order of service including hymns, meditation and some prayers written f…
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Exhortation to Steadfastness
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Exhortation to Steadfastness
by SPCK - N T Wright
Exhortation to Steadfastness 2 Thessalonians 2.13-17 ‘Stand firm and hold on tight.’ When did you last hear those words? On an airport bus, perhaps, taking you from the terminal building to the plane. On a boat ferrying passengers across a busy river. On a narrow mountain ledge w…
Luke for Everyone - Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Luke for Everyone - Jesus Cleanses the Temple
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus Cleanses the Temple At last it is Jesus’ turn to cry. Earlier in the gospel we find other people in tears: the widow at Nain, Jairus’s family, and others in distress coming to him for healing and new life. The women of Jerusalem will shortly be weeping for Jesus himself (23…
2 Corinthians - Paul's Plans and God's "Yes"
2 Corinthians - Paul's Plans and God's "Yes"
by SPCK - N T Wright
Paul’s Plan and God’s “Yes” 2 CORINTHIANS 1.15-22 One of my students once arrived very late for a tutorial. I was working on an extremely tight schedule, and I wasn’t amused at having the day disrupted. I thought the student needed to know how far out of line his behaviour was. I…
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Signs of the New Covenant
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Signs of the New Covenant
by SPCK - N T Wright
Signs of the New Covenant Acts 4. 32-37 Some politicians’ phrases pass into folk legend. I am old enough ( just) to remember Harold Macmillan saying, ‘You’ve never had it so good.’ Some Americans can remember Roosevelt talking about the ‘New Deal’. And generations to come will st…
John for Everyone part 2 - The Arrest of Jesus
John for Everyone part 2 - The Arrest of Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Arrest of Jesus John 18.1-14 He came, looking for someone. He came on the evening breeze, came as he had always come. Came because they knew each other, and used to spend time together. Came to the garden, because that’s where they always met. That’s where he was at home. And…
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Lawless One
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - The Lawless One
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Lawless One 2 Thessalonians 2.1-12 Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), England’s most famous naval commander, is remembered for many things; but one of the best-known incidents in his life occurred when he was leading the siege at Copenhagen in 1801. He was informed of a signal instr…
Hebrews for Everyone - The Sympathetic High Priest
Hebrews for Everyone - The Sympathetic High Priest
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Sympathetic High Priest Hebrews 4.14-5.3 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 various prison camps, ministering as best he could to the thousands of …
Hymn: There is no need for sacrifice
Hymn: There is no need for sacrifice
by Andrew Pratt
There is no need for sacrifice save love for friend and neighbour since Christ broke every barrier down. Let this define our labour. The sweetest offering of our love is all that is demanded: to love each person as ourselves is what the Christ commanded. Verses 3-4 follow Tune: B…
Hymn: Great God of change and constant contradiction
Hymn: Great God of change and constant contradiction
by Andrew Pratt
Great God of change and constant contradiction, we sense your presence everywhere we go; while you transcend all human understanding, our praise on earth will sing, will rise and grow. How can we reach beyond our human compass? Great God, your grace can bring us to our knees. Our…
John for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus in the Temple
John for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus in the Temple
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus in the Temple John 2.13-25 Imagine the scene in a school. The pupils are all taking their end-of-year exams. The teachers are preparing for a big Open Day when parents and friends will come to visit. Everyone is excited. It’s the biggest moment in the school year. Suddenly …
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Jesus' Death Reveals God's Covenant Justice
Paul for Everyone Romans part 1 - Jesus' Death Reveals God's Covenant Justice
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Unveiling of God’s Covenant Justice ROMANS 3.21-24 Sometimes – and today, as it happens, is one of those times – my desk, and the other tables in the room, are piled so high with papers that I know I will never get them in order by just picking one or two of them up now and t…
John for Everyone part 2 - The King of the Jews
John for Everyone part 2 - The King of the Jews
by SPCK - N T Wright
The King of the Jews John 19.16b-24 There was a shocking photograph in the newspaper the other day. A cart was being driven through the streets of a city in the Far East. On the cart were standing fifteen or twenty men. Round the neck of each, hanging from a string, was a notice.…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Temple and the Fig-Tree
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The Temple and the Fig-Tree
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Temple and the Fig-Tree Matthew 21.12-22 Once upon a time there was a king who wanted to give his country a new lease of life. He decided to capture a city that none of his people had lived in before, and make it his capital, so that no one would feel either proud that their …
Hebrews for Everyone - Tho Old Tebernacle Points Forward to the New
Hebrews for Everyone - Tho Old Tebernacle Points Forward to the New
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Old Tabernacle Points Forward to the New Hebrews 9.1-10 The taxi driver was resigned to things being this way for a long time. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘we’ve just got to put up with it. Boston will be a great city if they ever get it finished.’ We were stuck in what seemed like an im…
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus Prays for His People
John for Everyone part 2 - Jesus Prays for His People
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus Prays for His People John 17.9-19 In the newspapers recently a mother was punished by the courts. She had left her two young children entirely by themselves, while she went off for a foreign holiday with her new boyfriend. (The father, it seems, was nowhere to be found.) It…
John for Everyone part 2 - Pilate and the Judaeans
John for Everyone part 2 - Pilate and the Judaeans
by SPCK - N T Wright
Pilate and the Judaeans John 18.28-32 I watched today as the television interviewer fired questions at a man whose main aim seemed to be to answer them all at great length without saying anything at all. On and on the interviewer went, trying angle after angle; but the man stood …
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Leper and the Centurion's Servant