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A Gentle Response Turns Back Wrath Shortly I must attempt a third draft of a reply to a message concerning our congregation’s terminating the employment of our long-time gardener, who is getting elderly and was finding it harder to do the work that needed doing…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Acquire Truth Don't Sell It

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Acquire Truth Don't Sell It As we were walking toward our car after a concert, we passed a store front where a man was working a Heidelberg letterpress printing machine. It was odd because it was 10 p.m. and because I didn’t think anyone printed that way nowadays and because the …

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Anxiety and a Good Word

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Anxiety and a Good Word As usual, I got to sleep fine last night, but awoke after a couple of hours as I sometimes do, and I stayed awake for about three. I had an ache in my arm that wouldn’t worry me if I was fully awake…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Arrogance Goes before Shattering

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Arrogance Goes before Shattering So I wrote a third draft and I now have responses from some other members of our church council, and I must finalize and send the message later today. In a sense it’s easy enough to think through the issues, but it may be harder to work out exactl…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Be Realistic

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Be Realistic Reading the line in Ecclesiastes 4 about a triple cord not breaking quickly, I remembered an occasion in seminary when I gave our professor of preaching a hard time for using that line to support the idea that a sermon ought to have three points…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Crazy for Love (1)

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Crazy for Love (1) A married couple who are both pastors whom I know and love have just separated. The wife had confronted the husband about his close relationship with another woman…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Crazy for Love (2)

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Crazy for Love (2) I was amused when a friend who (like me) had fallen in love when he was of mature age asked me for advice about his sexual relationship with his fiancée, who was also of mature age…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Creation and Numbers

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Creation and Numbers A skunk shuffled along the grass walkway beyond our patio in broad daylight the other day, which was odd because skunks are nocturnal creatures. They are beautiful but anxiety-making because of the extraordinary stink they can produce when they are threatened…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Discipline Your Teenagers If You Can

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Discipline Your Teenagers If You Can A mother recently told me how Christian parenting experts had urged her to start spanking her children; some said to continue only until the children become verbal, others at any sign of willful rebellion regardless of age…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Does God Have a Wonderful Plan for Your Life?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Does God Have a Wonderful Plan for Your Life? Students who would like to find their way into teaching sometimes ask how I came to be a professor, so as to make plans for their career trajectory. My answer is that I drifted into where I am now…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Don't Let Your Nap Go On Too Long

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Don't Let Your Nap Go On Too Long When I was a student and we were working in the library in the afternoon, my friend Jim would wrap his scarf around his head, put up the hood of his coat over his head, lean forward onto his desk, and nap…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Drink Is a Brawler

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Drink Is a Brawler A friend who is a recovering alcoholic sometimes comments with dark humour on the process whereby drinking ruins people’s lives. It all but ruined his life, and it has ruined the lives of people he knows…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Enjoy Your Life Mindful of Your Creator

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Enjoy Your Life Mindful of Your Creator I remember the first time I heard Ray Charles perform. Having been blind for many years, he had to be guided toward the piano, but he needed much more help than his blindness alone would have required…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Even in Laughter a Heart May Hurt

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Even in Laughter a Heart May Hurt A friend of mine told me last week about a dinner he and his wife had had with another couple. The other wife was my friend’s ex, but both couples are happily married so it seemed that this piece of history would not be a problem, and the couples…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Everything Has Its Time

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Everything Has Its Time Relatively early in the Vietnam War, folk singer Pete Seeger wrote a song called “Turn! Turn! Turn!” with the closing line, “I swear it’s not too late.” Everything else in the song comes from the poem in Ecclesiastes 3, lightly rearranged. In the 1960s, wh…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Faithful Are the Wounds of a Friend

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Faithful Are the Wounds of a Friend Austin Farrer, the warden (that is, president) of my undergraduate college, was one of the great preachers of the day, though more for the wisdom and insight of his content than for the singsong style of his delivery…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - For Lenten Thought

by SPCK - John Goldingay

For Lenten Thought It’s the third week in Lent, and we have the third of our Lent Study Groups this evening. The group is studying the Psalms, and I’ve been excited at the way people have been finding this a means of discovering new resources for their praying, as they have been …

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Belong to My Love, and His Desire Is toward Me

by SPCK - John Goldingay

I Belong to My Love, and His Desire Is toward Me I once had to review a commentary on the Song for a journal. The author assumed that the Song is about the relationship between a man and a woman and dismissed the idea that under the surface it’s about the relationship between Chr…

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