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Job for Everyone - The Awe-Inspiring Creator

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Awe-Inspiring Creator Job 36 26-37: 24 The window by my desk looks out over our patio, where I can see geraniums starting to bloom, blue jays coming to bathe in the fountain, and squirrels trying to remember where they stored their nuts. A plant of basil sits on a table and w…

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Job for Everyone - The God Who Whispers in Our Ears

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The God Who Whispers in Our Ears Job 36 1-25 A young man comes to see me from time to time to discuss what is going on between him and God. He used to seem depressed, but the depression lifted when he came to acknowledge that he was attracted to other men rather than to women. He…

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Job for Everyone - Tested to the Limit

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Tested to the Limit Job 34 31- 35: 16 One aspect of the forty-two years during which my first wife had multiple sclerosis was that it was a time of periodic testing, or even of continuous testing (but it was also joyful). As she got to be recurrently tired, or could no longer do …

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Job for Everyone - Is God Not Good or Not Sovereign?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Is God Not Good or Not Sovereign? Job 34 1-30 A student has been blowing fuses to me about having to read books that are full of words like eschatology and pneumatology and sentences about God’s “ontological revelatory self-communication and self-transcendence” or about “supralap…

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Job for Everyone - Pastoral Care That Makes the Sufferer's Position Worse

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Pastoral Care That Makes the Sufferer’s Position Worse Job 33 1-33 A woman came to see me a little while ago to talk about an occasion when she had been given pastoral care by some people, and she said the occasion had left her disturbed for years. I knew her to be an intelligent…

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Job for Everyone - The Angry Young Man

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Angry Young Man Job 32 1-22 I was a “word child.” Indeed, I probably still am, though I am also a music child and a people child. A Word Child is a novel by Iris Murdoch about a man for whom words are the means of his redemption or happiness. Words save him. For me, that was …

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Job for Everyone - THe Way I Have Walked (III)

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Way I Have Walked (III) Job 31 24-40 A year or two ago, a friend of mine lost his wife after she had been ill for a while, and to my horror I was aware of feeling something like satisfaction at this event because my wife had recently died after being ill for many years. Someh…

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Job for Everyone - The Way I Have Walked (II)

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Way I Have Walked (II) Job 31 13-23 On Sunday we had a meeting to discuss our church’s ministry to homeless people; many live in our area, and we are next door to a community center. They know that Sunday morning is an obvious time to drop by to see if we have food, and we tr…

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Job for Everyone - The Way I Have Walked (I)

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Way I Have Walked Job 31 1-12 A year after my first wife Ann died, I was out to dinner with a group that included a former colleague whose wife had died a while previously. He had remarried a year or so later, and I was intrigued to hear the story. He began from the aftermath…

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Job for Everyone - The Way We Are

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Way We Are Job 30 1-31 Today a woman came to see me and wept. Her husband left her after ten years of marriage, leaving her with two small children to look after. On her account, his leaving came right out of the blue; there was no clue that he was unhappy in the marriage. Bu…

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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Fifth Sunday after Epiphany - Year A

by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany/ Fourth Sunday before Lent–Year A Order of Service contains: Opening Hymn: Great/Lord God your love has called us here or Let all creation dance and sing Prayer: Great God, your love Lord’s Prayer Hymn: Go, tell it on the mountain or Over mountains, th…

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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Fourth Sunday after Epiphany - Year A

by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson

Fourth Sunday after Epiphany - Year A Order of Service contains: Opening Hymn: Prayer: God of justice and mercy Hymn: Help us, O Lord, to learn or When will we ever learn? Reading Micah 6:1-8 Hymn: We turn to you, O God of every nation or Prophets challenge words and actions Serm…

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Job for Everyone - The Way We Were and the Way I Thought We Would Be

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The Way We Were and the Way I Thought We Would Be Job 29: 1-25 They say that if your spouse dies after a time of illness and/or gradual decline, initially your memories are dominated by the nature of those last months, but that eventually older memories come to reassert themselve…

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Job for Everyone - Insight Lies in Submission to the Lord

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Insight Lies in Submission to the Lord Job 28: 1-28 In two weeks I have to preach at the seminary’s baccalaureate service (a kind of commissioning service, I could call it for U.K. readers). Each year as I have listened appreciatively to the baccalaureate sermon, I have wondered …

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Job for Everyone - I Hate the People Who Hate You

by SPCK - John Goldingay

I Hate the People Who Hate You Job 27: 1-23 When I have taken part in “quiet days” for reflection and prayer, three favorite Old Testament texts have been the one about the still, small voice that I mentioned in connection with Job 25–26, the “Be still and know that I am God” of …

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Job for Everyone - A Whimper and a Whisper

by SPCK - John Goldingay

A Whimper and a Whisper Job for Everyone Job 25: 1- 26: 14 1 Bildad the Shuhite replied: 2 Rule and awe are with him; he brings about peace in his heights. 3 Is there any numbering of his troops, or on whom does his light not shine? 4 Or how can a mortal be right with God; how ca…

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Job for Everyone - Why Are Times Not Kept by Shadday?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Why Are Times Not Kept By Shadday? Job 24: 1-25 Some time ago I used to follow a set of daily scriptural readings called Daily Light on the Daily Path that included verses on different topics for each morning and evening. The verses were printed on the main body of the page, and …

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Job for Everyone - Who Moved?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Who Moved? Job 23: 1-17 A notice that sometimes appears on church bulletin boards says, “If God seems far away, guess who moved?” There’s obviously some truth in the point it makes about our relationship with God, but the notice rather tempts me to deface it. I have known times w…

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