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Eliphaz rewrites Jo’s Life Rather Than Revise His Own Theology Job 22: 1-30 My early years of teaching coincided with a time when many churches were rediscovering the possibility of praying for sick people to be healed and of finding that many were healed. It was an exciting redi…

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Job for Everyone - If Only Wickedness Did Get Its Reward

by SPCK - John Goldingay

If Only Wickedness Did Get Its Reward! Job 21: 1-34 Two or three years before I write, the United States and the Western world as a whole experienced a “great financial meltdown,” with a significant factor in the crisis being the way financial institutions lent money for mortgage…

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Job for Everyone - How Wickedness Gets Its Reward

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How Wickedness Gets Its Reward Job 20: 1-29 A pastor in the United States has just published a book that begins by questioning whether people who have not believed in Christ will go to hell. The pastor is someone with his finger on the pulse of U.S. culture, and he has been able …

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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 …

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Job for Everyone - Does Job Dispute the Moral Foundation of the World?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Does Job Dispute the Moral Foundation of the world? Job 18: 1- 21 Last night we were watching the great movie Dogma, which is full of bad language, violence, and scatological humor. It is not a movie for the sensitive or fainthearted or squeamish, but it is one of the most theolo…

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Job for Everyone - A Witness in the Heavens?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

A Witness in the Heavens? Job 16: 18- 17: 16 When I was a young assistant pastor in London (what would now be called a youth pastor, but youth pastors hadn’t been invented yet), one of the prize members of our largely middleclass youth group was a teenager from the local projects…

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Job for Everyone - Comforters? More like Troublemakers

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Comforters? More like Troublemakers Job 16: 1-17 When I take students through the book of Job in classes, I invite them to let me know the questions it raises for them, and usually someone asks, “So when we are ministering to people who are suffering like Job, what do we say to t…

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Job for Everyone - Eliphaz Tries Again

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Eliphaz Tries Again Job 15: 1-35 Today’s newspaper contains a long excerpt from a book about a gigantic fraud that brought about the collapse of a Wall Street financial empire during the financial crisis of the first decade of the twenty-first century. The head of the business in…

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Job for Everyone - In the Midst of Life We Are in Death

by SPCK - John Goldingay

In the Midst of Life We Are in Death Job 14: 1-22 As a pastor, I have been used to reading words from the beginning of Job 14 at funerals, and specifically as the burial party arrives at the grave with the coffin. The traditional prayer-book version reads,..

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Job for Everyone - Will You Just Listen?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Will You Just Listen? Job 13: 1-28 This afternoon I was on the phone with a friend who had moved to another city because he believed he had a call to go and work in a tough area there. He had joined a tiny church and had started a coffee bar that might be a meeting place for peop…

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Job for Everyone - Sovereignty without Principle?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Sovereignty without Principle? Job 12: 1-25 My wife and I were talking about Job the other day, and she told me about two different people in a church to which she had belonged who had given up their Christian faith and left the church when they went through the horrific experien…

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Job for Everyone - Same Old, Same Old

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Same Old, Same Old Job 11: 1-20 As I write it is Holy Week, and last Sunday we read the passion story from Matthew with its exotic account of tombs opening in Jerusalem so that people came out and wandered around after Jesus’ death and in anticipation of his resurrection. It’s an…

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Job for Everyone - On Birth and Death

by SPCK - John Goldingay

On Birth and Death Job 10: 1-22 Yesterday a girl in her twenties was telling me about the death of her grandmother a day or two before. Like many people of her generation, she was very close to her grandmother, and the loss is a significant one. And yesterday another young woman …

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Job for Everyone - The God of Wrath

by SPCK - John Goldingay

The God of Wrath Job 9: 1-35 We were preparing dinner for people in a homeless shelter on Friday when out of the blue my pastor asked me, “What do you say when people ask you why the God of the Old Testament is so different from the God of the New Testament?” Quick as a flash I r…

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Times and Seasons - Full Service - Presentation of the Lord

by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson

Full Service - The Presentation of the Lord - Year A Order of Service contains: Opening Hymn: Prayer - Generous and caring God, Hymn: Birth brings a promise (Singing the Faith) or A baby had been promised Reading: Luke 2:22-40 Hymn: Mary and Joseph came to the temple (Singing the…

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Job for Everyone - On Learning From the Past

by SPCK - John Goldingay

On Learning from the Past Job 8: 1-22 The other Saturday we were sitting in a restaurant by the ocean, and a woman came to talk to us who is a student at the seminary. This particular beach is an hour away, so I asked her if she lived nearby. She explained that she came here on S…

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Job for Everyone - What Are Human Beings That You Pay Them So Much Attention?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

What Are Human Beings That You Pay Them So Much Attention? Job 7: 1-21 I have an odd life compared with many of the people who live in the same city as I do. I never cease being grateful for the fact that I can work at home much of the time and that when I go to the seminary, it …

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Job for Everyone - Friendship

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Where Could I Go But to the Lord? Job 5: 1-27 The story goes that sometime in the 1930s a Mississippi music teacher and Baptist deacon named James Coats was at the bedside of one of his neighbors, whose name was Joe Keyes. Joe was dying, and James asked him if he knew where he wo…

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