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Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Tuesday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Tuesday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER TUESDAY... ...I have often used, as an illustration, the way in which signposts work. A signpost tells you not where you are at the moment, but where you are going to. You don’t put a sign (I have often said) saying ‘This Way to London’ in Pic…
Revelation bible study guide - A Little Scroll
Revelation bible study guide - A Little Scroll
by SPCK - N T Wright
A LITTLE SCROLL Revelation 10 One of the most famous baseball umpires of all time, Bill Klem, earned his reputation by insisting that the umpire’s word was not only final, but in a sense creative. On one celebrated occasion, he waited a long time to call a particular pitch. Some …
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith that Looks Beyond Death
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith that Looks Beyond Death
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith that Looks Beyond Death Hebrews 11.13-22 ‘Dad, will you walk on ahead just a bit?’ They were going into the middle of town on a Saturday morning. Why would his 14-year-old daughter ask him to walk ahead, rather than beside her as he had been doing? He meekly obeyed. (Always…
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…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Faith Wins the Victory
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Faith Wins the Victory
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith Wins the Victory 1 John 5.1-12 The first time I went snorkelling on a tropical reef, I was overwhelmed by the sight. Face down in the water by the Great Barrier Reef, off the north-east coast of Australia, I knew at once that this was a totally new experience. All around me…
Mark for Everyone - Exorcism and Healings
Mark for Everyone - Exorcism and Healings
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 1.21–34 Exorcism and Healings... ...Not long ago there was a great disaster at sea. A tourist boat, loaded with cars and holidaymakers, had failed to shut its doors properly; the water began to pour in; the boat began to sink, and panic set in. People were …
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…
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: Noah, Abraham, Sarah
Hebrews for Everyone - Faith and the Future: Noah, Abraham, Sarah
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith and the Future: Noah, Abraham, Sarah Hebrews 11.7-12 ‘The starry heaven above us’ was one of the two central facts upon which the great philosopher Immanuel Kant based his view of God. (The other was ‘the moral law within us’.) From the earliest recorded times, humans have …
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Faith that Moves Mountains
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Faith that Moves Mountains
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith that Moves Mountains Matthew 17.14-21 She was a strong swimmer, and by now she was ready to tackle the challenge of swimming in the sea. A bathing pool is all right to begin with, but it’s a bit tame compared with ocean rollers. For a while it was simply exhilarating. She a…
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Faith and Works
Early Christian Letters for Everyone - Faith and Works
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith and Works James 2.14-26 That’s the wrong way round, isn’t it? That’s what we are inclined to think as we read that final verse. If I were to use ‘the body and the spirit’ as a picture for ‘faith and works’, I would make ‘faith’ correspond to the ‘spirit’ and ‘works’ to the …
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 7.55–60 1 Peter 2.2–10 John 14.1–14 I’m never quite sure what Jesus meant when he said ‘you will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father’. But I’m quite sure he did not mean ‘you will do lesser works than these’. An o…
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…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Felix Calms (and Slows) Things Down
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Felix Calms (and Slows) Things Down
by SPCK - N T Wright
Felix Calms (and Slows) Things DownActs 24.22-27 A friend of mine preached a sermon, as my guest, on radiators and drains. Some people, he said, are radiators, and other people are drains. Some people, that is, naturally give energy and warmth to others. People like having them…
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…
John for Everyone Part 1 - Feeding the Five Thousand
John for Everyone Part 1 - Feeding the Five Thousand
by SPCK - N T Wright
Feeding the Five Thousand John 6.1-15 When you read detective stories, you quickly learn that what may look like an irrelevant little detail may actually be the clue to discovering who the murderer really is. A good writer will put in all kinds of detail, designed to lead the eye…
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Final Blessings and Charge
Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians - Final Blessings and Charge
by SPCK - N T Wright
Final Blessings and Charge Thessalonians 5.23-28 When I was ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament, I received many cards and letters wishing me well and assuring me of the prayers and support of family and friends. The one that made the deepest impression on me at the ti…
Mark for Everyone - Further Signs of the End
Mark for Everyone - Further Signs of the End
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 13.14–27 Further Signs of the End... ...When Albert Schweitzer, the great medical missionary, theologian and musician of the early twentieth century, was a young man, he studied the organ in Paris under Charles Marie Widor. One day in 1899 Widor confessed t…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Fulfilling the Law