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One Thing Leads to Another Genesis 12: 11-20 The movie Spanglish concerns the adventures of a Los Angeles family who hire a Mexican as housekeeper. While she may not be in the same class as Sarah, she is not to be sneezed at, and the head of the household does not sneeze at her. …

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Stuff Happens

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Stuff Happens Genesis 12: 6b-10 Three or four years ago, a friend of mine got a job as a youth pastor on the East Coast. It meant his wife had to give up her job in California, but she had originally come from the East Coast, and she was entirely happy to make the move. They foun…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - So Abraham Went

by SPCK - John Goldingay

So Abraham Went Genesis 12: 3-6a I first visited the Middle East six years after Israel occupied the West Bank. We were based mostly in Tel Aviv, but we had not been there long before we drove up into the West Bank and went to Nablus, one of its three most important towns. The na…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - To Be a Blessing

by SPCK - John Goldingay

To Be a Blessing Genesis 12: 2b When my grandmother died, she left her legacy to be divided among her grandchildren. Her legacy was about two hundred pounds (about three hundred dollars), and we got about twenty pounds each. I bought two prints with it: one sits behind me as I wr…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Get Yourself Outta Here

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Get Yourself Outta Here Genesis 11: 31- 12: 2a I just had a phone call from a graduate of our seminary who is about to leave the United States to join some people seeking to establish a Christian presence in a country where there is little such witness. She knows that when my wif…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Babylon Becomes Babble-on

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Babylon Becomes Babble-on Genesis 11: 8- 30 In England I had an Egyptian colleague whose first language was Arabic. When we were going to Morocco for a holiday, I asked him to teach me a few phrases of Arabic so I could at least say, “Good morning” and “Thank you” to people, but …

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The God Who Intervenes

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The God Who Intervenes Genesis 11: 3- 7 I was talking to a young man training to be a counselor. The program involves undertaking a chaplaincy in a trauma unit and working with people with brain or spinal cord injuries as a result of a sporting accident, car crash, gunshot wound,…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - A Journey and a Settlement

by SPCK - John Goldingay

A Journey and a Settlement Genesis 10: 21- 11: 2 A decade ago, we moved from Britain to the United States, and an Indonesian joined us to share in caring for my wife, Ann, with her disability. When she and her husband went home, a Kenyan took her place. When she and her husband w…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The Nations

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Nations Genesis 9: 26- 10: 20 There is a movie called Antonia’s Line set in a village in the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War. A garrison of Nazi troops is stationed in the village; the village’s own men are all missing, fighting in the Allied Armies or working …

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - I Trace the Rainbow through the Rain

by SPCK - John Goldingay

I Trace the Rainbow through the Rain Genesis 9: 14- 25 Nineteenth-century Scottish theologian and pastor George Matheson lost his sight when he was a student. That led his fiancée to break off their engagement because she could not face life with a blind man. He never married; hi…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - A Life for a Life

by SPCK - John Goldingay

A Life for a Life Genesis 9: 5- 13 I was once asked to visit a man in prison who had come to trust in Christ and was now taking online courses on Christian faith; he hoped to be ordained one day. He was a man about my age and build; indeed, his name was also John. As we sat on ei…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Never Again

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Never Again Genesis 8: 21b- 9: 4 A few years ago, a couple who were friends of mine left the seminary and moved to another part of the country; he, to be a pastor; she, to be a counselor. We kept in occasional touch through e-mail, and it eventually emerged that their marriage wa…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - But God Remembered Noah

by SPCK - John Goldingay

But God Remembered Noah Genesis 8: 1-22a There are several restaurants and clubs where I take my wife in her wheelchair and where they invariably both remember us and are mindful of us. When I call to make a reservation, they remember us (it’s partly the odd accent), and when we …

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - And God Shut Him In

by SPCK - John Goldingay

And God Shut Him In Genesis 7: 1-24 One of my sons works for the U.K. Environment Agency in the department concerned with flood control, where he oversees projects designed to avoid flooding. In the past there have been occasions when terrible storms have caused the sea to flood …

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Filled with Violence

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Filled with Violence Genesis 6: 9-22 At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire undertook a systematic attempt to annihilate the Armenian people in Turkey. One to one and a half million people were killed. In the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi govern…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Grace Found Noah

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Grace Found Noah Genesis 6: 5-8 Early in our marriage, we adopted the mantra that the most destructive phrase in the English language was “you should have,” as in “You should have done this or that,” or “You shouldn’t have done this or that.” The phrase “you should,” as in “You s…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The Peak of Rebellion

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Peak of Rebellion Genesis 6: 1-4 We had a friend in England who had been sexually abused on an ongoing basis by her uncle, who was a minister. The abuse had happened when she was a little girl (she was then in her forties), but all her life she had been trying to come to term…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - The Audacity of Hope

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Audacity of Hope Genesis 5: 21-32 At a lunch the weekend after Tony Blair became British prime minister in 1997, I was talking with a woman at our table. The event had reminded me of the election of Harold Wilson’s government in Britain in 1964, and I had been thinking of the…

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