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God of Light and God of Darkness Psalm 104 When my older son got into his midteens, he declared that he was no longer coming to church with his mother and me. Fortunately this was not because he had decided that all church was stupid but that our demure Anglican church wasn’t kee…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God Redeems Now

by SPCK - John Goldingay

God Redeems Now Psalm 73 Last night we went to a concert by rock-country-bluegrass-folk artist Steve Earle. I first heard him at Nottingham Rock City when he was still fairly fresh out of prison where he had been for drug-related offenses. Twenty years later in a club in Disneyla…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God’s Faithfulness, Not Mine

by SPCK - John Goldingay

God’s Faithfulness, Not Mine Psalm 143 Contrary to the resolve she had announced a few days ago, first thing this morning my wife sat at her computer checking the news. Eventually I asked her what had happened to her resolve to begin the day with her time of devotion, and in horr…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God’s Laws as the Way to Blessing

by SPCK - John Goldingay

God’s Laws as the Way to Blessing Psalm 119: 1-24 After church today, a friend asked me a question that had arisen out of a conversation he’d had with a co-worker. My friend was surprised that the co-worker was willing to work seven days a week—what about the commandment concerni…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God’s Time and Our Time

by SPCK - John Goldingay

God’s Time and Our Time Psalm 90 My first mother-in-law used to say that time went faster the older you got, and I used to tell myself that really she was simply afraid of the approach of death. As I have gotten older, I have realized that she was right, and I see that my realiza…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Has God Changed?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Has God Changed? Psalm 77 One of our students came to see me to ask me to meet with another student whose life seemed to be falling apart and who was talking about suicide. The woman had been married for twenty years; her first husband had been “the love of her life.” Then he bec…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - His Commitment Is Forever

by SPCK - John Goldingay

His Commitment Is Forever Psalm 136 A former student of mine served as an armed forces chaplain in Iraq for two years after graduating from seminary. One week he called me from there. He had felt compelled to preach on the idea of God’s steadfast love. He remembered my explaining…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Holy Wind

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Holy Wind Psalm 135 Two nights ago, we had a huge windstorm in our city, with gusts up to ninety-seven miles per hour. The wind felled hundreds of trees, including century-old oaks and tall palms. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, and many still lack power. Schools and …

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How Our Faithlessness Magnifies God’s Faithfulness

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How Our Faithlessness Magnifies God’s Faithfulness Psalm 106: 1-47 From six thousand miles’ distance I have been astonished to follow the London equivalent to Occupy Wall Street, which has involved protesters camping out at St. Paul’s Cathedral, where I was ordained, near the Lon…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Be Defiant in Spirit

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Be Defiant in Spirit Psalm 138 This morning I received a message from a woman who a year ago was attacked and stabbed by a man while she and a friend were hiking in a forest; her friend was killed but she survived because the man mistakenly thought she was dead. She has re…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Deal with Being Swindled

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Deal with Being Swindled Psalm 109 This weekend we plan to go to a new movie about some of the victims of the financial meltdown in the first decade of this century. They are the staff of a high-end condo block who discover that the occupant of the penthouse has been engag…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to End the Day

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to End the Day Psalm 133-134 When my wife and I got married fifty-one weeks ago, we discovered the Episcopal Prayer Book’s “Daily Devotions for Individuals and Families,” four one-page sets of psalms, Scripture readings, and prayers that you can use when you wake up, at lunch…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Get Prayer to Work

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Get Prayer to Work Psalm 142 In connection with Psalms 120–121, I mentioned the visit a group of my friends were making to one of the poorest and most dangerous countries in Africa, in connection with their commitment to letting the voice of refugees there be heard in the …

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Persuade Your Heart

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Persuade Your Heart Psalm 103 Some years ago I went through one of those periods when God didn’t seem to be real. I don’t mean I was going through some intellectual questioning, though I have done that at other times, but rather that I didn’t feel that God was there. I wou…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - How to Say a Lot in a Few Words

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Say a Lot in a Few Words Psalm 117 & 118 I joined the faculty of my seminary in England at the time when it moved to a new campus in a different city, so the beginning of my first year was a big moment for the seminary, not just for me. As I walked onto the campus on that …

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - I Can Be Wiser Than My Professor

by SPCK - John Goldingay

I Can Be Wiser Than My Professor Psalm 119:97-120 After my class on the Prophets last night, we invited the students back to our home for scones and tea, and during the conversation one of them asked what I enjoyed most about teaching. My response was that I love sending people a…

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - I Have Hope for Zion, but Is There Hope for Me?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

I Have Hope for Zion, but Is There Hope for Me? Psalm 102 Every morning when we wake up, my wife prays our morning prayers, and almost invariably she thanks God for another wonderful day. An hour later, I sit at my desk thinking about that day’s passage for The Old Testament for …

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - If You Build It, He Will Come

by SPCK - John Goldingay

If You Build It, He Will Come Psalm 132 In an hour’s time, I am off to our diocesan convention, where clergy and laypeople will make decisions about policies and initiatives for the coming year. We will begin by asking for God’s guidance and wisdom in connection with our discussi…

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