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Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Get Taken In
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Get Taken In
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Get Taken In JOSHUA 9: 1-21 I have known people who seem to consult God about every detail of their lives, from what to have for dinner to what courses to take next quarter, what college to attend, where to buy a house, or whom to marry. To be honest, I consulted God about…
Exodus and Leviticus - How to Ordain a Priest
Exodus and Leviticus - How to Ordain a Priest
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Ordain a Priest EXODUS 28: 1- 29: 37 I shall shortly have completed forty years teaching in seminary, and a bit longer than this in being a priest and pastor. A few years after I started seminary teaching, I became embarrassed to realize that I no longer believed that with…
Job for Everyone - I Know That My Restorer Lives
Job for Everyone - I Know That My Restorer Lives
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Know That My Restorer Lives Job 19: 1- 29 In spring 1741 over a period of twenty-four days, George Frideric Handel set to music a compilation of scriptural texts, mostly from the Old Testament, that had been made by a landowner and patron of the arts called Charles Jennens. In …
Isaiah for Everyone - I'm Fed Up to the Teeth with Your Worship
Isaiah for Everyone - I'm Fed Up to the Teeth with Your Worship
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I’m fed up to the Teeth with Your Worship Isaiah 1: 1-20 We just came home from our Palm Sunday service at church, a great occasion. As usual we began by distributing palm crosses; I can never take for granted that in California we can make our palm crosses from palm branches on …
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - I Trace the Rainbow through the Rain
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…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - I Would Rather Fall into God's Hands than into Human Hands
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - I Would Rather Fall into God's Hands than into Human Hands
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Would Rather Fall into God’s Hands than into Human Hands 2 Samuel 24: 1- 16a By a nice coincidence, it’s census month in the United States. Many an advertisement is urging us to make sure we fill in forms; even the announcements in church repeat the exhortation, and the governm…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - I Will Not Offer Worship That Costs Me Nothing
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - I Will Not Offer Worship That Costs Me Nothing
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Will Not Offer Worship That Costs Me Nothing 2 Samuel 24: 16b- 25 As we left a concert last night, one of my friends commented that he always emerges from live music with renewed energy. I am the same. It reminded me of how I felt after a terrific, animated, dynamic worship ser…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - I'm Not the Hero; the Hero Is God
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - I'm Not the Hero; the Hero Is God
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I’m Not the Hero; the Hero is God JUDGES 8: 1-35 One of my fond memories of our sons’ childhood is of reading Bible stories to them at bedtime, stories that had been rewritten and illustrated for children; I have now passed on the set of books to the son who has children of his o…
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - I Want to Know What Love Is
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - I Want to Know What Love Is
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Want to Know What Love Is Genesis 29:32-30:3 I have just read a review of a TV program about polygamy in the United States. It incidentally notes how one motivation for polygamy is that it can be a route to more children and more money, which fits with the assumptions about pol…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - It Takes a Miracle
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - It Takes a Miracle
by SPCK - John Goldingay
It Takes a Miracle 1 Samuel 1:19b-24 In Joshua, Judges, and Ruth for Everyone I referred to one of my students who spent last year preparing to get married but also developed increasingly intense headaches. A month or so before her wedding date she had an MRI that suggested a bra…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Just One River to Cross
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Just One River to Cross
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Just One River to Cross JOSHUA 1: 1-18 As I write, I listen to CDs, or rather I half-listen. I do not pay too much attention to the words, though sometimes they catch me out. One day the title phrase of Jimmy Cliff ’s “Many Rivers to Cross” caught my attention, and I listened mor…
Exodus and Leviticus - It Was an Ordinary Working Day
Exodus and Leviticus - It Was an Ordinary Working Day
by SPCK - John Goldingay
It Was an Ordinary Working Day EXODUS 3: 1-10 It was an ordinary working day. My wife, Ann (but she wasn’t my wife then—in fact, we hadn’t even met), left her university residence in London and took the subway to her medical school. She was just a week or two into her preclinical…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - It's Over Even When It's Not Over
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - It's Over Even When It's Not Over
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Importance of a Game Plan JOSHUA 8: 1-21 Three weeks ago I went to my first American football game. It was also my first experience of tailgating in the warm sunshine and of eating breakfast burritos, which (accompanied by mimosas) were perhaps the highlight of the day. I was…
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - It Was Just a Coincidence
1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - It Was Just a Coincidence
by SPCK - John Goldingay
It was Just a Coincidence 2 Kings 8:1-29 I had a visit yesterday from a student on another campus of our seminary who wanted to talk about postgraduate study. The visit arose out of the fact that she had been on the seminary’s list of Anglican/Episcopal students, a list I had obt…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - It Never Rains in Southern California
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - It Never Rains in Southern California
by SPCK - John Goldingay
It Never Rains in Southern California Deuteronomy 11: 1- 32 “It never rains in southern California,” the song says, though it goes on to comment that they don’t warn you how it pours. It’s raining this morning. It is several months since it rained, and that is no problem to me as…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - On Following Up Your Good Ideas but Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - On Following Up Your Good Ideas but Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Following Up Your Good Ideas but Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously 2 Samuel 5: 1- 25 I am coming to the end of my fortieth year as a professor. On Sunday evening, the day before yet another new quarter started, a friend asked me a question that unintentionally made me feel rat…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - On Giving Up Your Son
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - On Giving Up Your Son
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Giving Up Your Son 1 Samuel 1: 25- 2: 10 As I write, two anniversaries have recently passed. Just over thirty years ago the Shah of Iran was ousted and the Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to become the “Leader” of Iran, a more powerful position than that of the presiden…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Dying outside the Promised Land