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Helping People Get Back on Their Feet Deuteronomy 15: 1- 18 According to a legal record from July 6, 1773, James Best, a laborer, “doth voluntarily put himself Servant to Captain Stephen Jones Master of the Snow Sally” (a snow was a kind of sailing ship). Jones would take Best fr…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - How It All Goes Wrong (Again)

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How It All Goes Wrong (Again) NUMBERS 25:1- 26: 51 Numbers cause us some anxiety. I am often discouraged by the numbers of people in our church, afraid it is dying (the average age is quite high). A shrinking church will seem to be a failing church. So from time to time I glance …

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - How To Make War

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Make War (or How to Make War Impractical) Deuteronomy 19: 1- 20: 20 Last night at dinner, a friend of mine was hopping mad about a meeting she had attended the previous night, when an ex-marine who had become a pacifist was lamenting the wrongness of the war in Afghanistan…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - If Only...

by SPCK - John Goldingay

If Only… Deuteronomy 5: 16-33 Yesterday we had the service to which I referred in connection with Deuteronomy 1, when the Episcopal Church in Los Angeles expressed its contrition for the racism that has characterized it in encouraging segregation and condoning discrimination with…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Introduction

by SPCK - John Goldingay

INTRODUCTION As far as Jesus and the New Testament writers were concerned, the Jewish Scriptures that Christians call the “Old Testament” were the Scriptures. In saying that, I cut corners a bit, as the New Testament never gives us a list of these Scriptures, but the body of Scri…

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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…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Justice and Only Justice ( Absolute Faithfulness)

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Justice and Only Justice Deuteronomy 16: 18- 17: 13 The last time I took a student group to Israel, among the speakers we had in the evenings was a Christian Palestinian Israeli called Naim Ateek; his son was subsequently a student at our seminary. Dr. Ateek was born in Palestine…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Kings, Priests, Levites, Prophets

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Kings, Priests, Levites, Prophets Deuteronomy 17: 14- 18: 22 In the seminary where I taught in England, from time to time we would have someone delivering a prophetic message in the context of worship. Generally these messages were reassuring and general, promising people God’s l…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Land, Promises and Politics

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Land, Promises and Politics NUMBERS 33:1- 34: 29 I have several friends in Beirut, including a former student who teaches the Bible in a Christian university (actually he is the guy who once threw me into the pool, as I mentioned in connection with Numbers 28–29). He has a hard t…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Listen, Israel

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Listen, Israel Deuteronomy 6: 1-25 Many people in the West in the twenty-first century find it hard to believe there is one truth or one God; they find it easier to believe that there are lots of versions of the truth or angles on the truth. We all then choose a “truth” that make…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Little by Little

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Little by Little Deuteronomy 7: 16- 9: 3 In an agonized e-mail I received from a friend, she described herself as constantly frustrated by the fact that she is not as mature as she thinks she should be. “Why do I go back to fighting the same old battles in my spiritual life inste…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Maintaining the Family Name

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Maintaining the Family Name Deuteronomy 25: 1-19 I have just read about a court in Britain sending a woman to prison for killing someone in a car crash that happened while she was texting. The victim’s mother and the prosecution are appealing for a stiffer sentence. The newspaper…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Miriam the Prophet, Aaron the Priest, Moses the Teacher

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Miriam the Prophet, Aaron the Priest, Moses the Teacher NUMBERS 12: 1-15 The movie Live and Become is the story of a boy among the Ethiopian Falasha Jews airlifted to Israel at the time of the Marxist revolution in the 1980s. Except that Schlomo (Solomon) is not a Jew but a Chris…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Moses Begins His Last Sermon

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Moses Begins His Last Sermon Deuteronomy 1:1-45 This coming Saturday, I am taking part in a service in which the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles expresses its regret and contrition for the way we have treated African Americans. The church to which I belong was founded to provide…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Moses' Last Song

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Moses’ Last Song Deuteronomy 31: 1- 32: 47 In commenting on Deuteronomy 1, I referred to a service of contrition in our Episcopal diocese concerning the way we had treated African Americans. In the early decades of the twentieth century, in different parts of greater Los Angeles …

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Murder Desecrates the Land

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Murder Desecrates the Land Deuteronomy 21: 1-23 Last night I watched the second episode of an enchanting TV series called The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. At one level it’s just another detective series of the “Miss Marple” genre, but it has a winsomeness deriving from its set…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Negotiations and Love Songs

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Negotiations and Love Songs NUMBERS 30:1- 16 About a year after he got married, one of my students set off from Los Angeles for Chicago, driving the opposite way to the one recommended in the song “Route 66,” in order to begin graduate school. Only subsequently in an e-mail did h…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - No, But...

by SPCK - John Goldingay

No, But… Deuteronomy 1:46- 3: 29 I noted at the beginning of this commentary that my wife, Ann, died just before I started writing it. She had multiple sclerosis for forty-three years. The Sunday after her death, the set Scripture readings included Paul’s account in 2 Corinthians…

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