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Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Swallow Your Pride
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Swallow Your Pride
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Swallow Your Pride JOSHUA 9: 22- 10: 11 In the church where I was a young assistant pastor, I shared a house with an older man called Charles who in U.S.-speak would be called the janitor but in Brit-speak was called the caretaker. I don’t remember how he had been appointe…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Get Taken In
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Get Taken In
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Get Taken In JOSHUA 9: 1-21 I have known people who seem to consult God about every detail of their lives, from what to have for dinner to what courses to take next quarter, what college to attend, where to buy a house, or whom to marry. To be honest, I consulted God about…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Questions For Discussion and Reflection
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Questions For Discussion and Reflection
by SPCK - N T Wright
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND REFLECTION 1 THE WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT God’s powerful mystery (1 Corinthians 2.1– 5) How and why do the deepest mysteries of human life – such as love, death, joy and beauty – point to the mystery of God?...
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God's Patience
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - God's Patience
by SPCK - N T Wright
5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD GOD’S PATIENCE 2 Peter 3: 11-18 By the time 2 Peter was written, Paul’s letters had already been circulating for some while in many of the churches, both in Turkey and Greece (where all of Paul’s letters except Romans were addressed), and possibly furth…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Godliness and Contentment
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Godliness and Contentment
by SPCK - N T Wright
5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD GODLINESS AND CONTENTMENT 1 Timothy 6: 6-10 It is hardly an exaggeration to say that this famous passage is an indictment of modern Western culture. Never before in history has there been such a restless pursuit of riches, by more and more highly develo…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Wisdom For The Rulers
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Wisdom For The Rulers
by SPCK - N T Wright
5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD WISDOM FOR THE RULERS Ephesians 3: 8-13 There was once a young prince whose distant uncle was king of a great empire. The prince was carefree and happy, neither very rich nor very poor. One day, a great disaster struck. The king, his uncle, was killed i…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Mystery and The Victory
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - The Mystery and The Victory
by SPCK - N T Wright
5 THE RENEWAL OF THE WORLD THE MYSTETY AND THE VICTORY 1 Corinthians 15: 50-58 He stood there in baggy jeans, trainers, and an old sweater. ‘You can’t come in like that,’ I said. ‘This is a smart lunch, and we’re the guests. We’ve got to get it right.’ ‘No problem,’ he replied, a…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How Not to Get Overextended in Real Estate
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How Not to Get Overextended in Real Estate
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How Not to Get Overextended in Real Estate RUTH 4:1-10 The end of the first decade of the twenty-first century saw a collapse in housing prices in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, and an increase in the number of people “walking away” from property they “owned” but coul…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How Not to Leave the Initiative to the Man
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How Not to Leave the Initiative to the Man
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How Not to Leave the Initiative to the Man RUTH 3:1-18 I was talking to a young man who had been dating someone for a long time, but she had then ditched him and broken his heart. For a while he had stayed out of relationships. He had gone out with a number of women friends, some…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - The God of Coincidences
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - The God of Coincidences
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The God of Coincidences RUTH 2:10-23 When I was thirteen, I was walking home from school one day and met a teacher from the Sunday school I used to attend but had left two years previously to go to another church. She told me that my old church was about to start a new youth fell…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - She's a Moabite, for Goodness' Sake!
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - She's a Moabite, for Goodness' Sake!
by SPCK - John Goldingay
She’s a Moabite, for Goodness’ Sake RUTH 1:19b-2: 9 I was just reading the story of a man called Maxo who died in the earthquake in Haiti a couple of weeks ago when his house collapsed on top of him. His cousin in New York called Maxo a hustler, but his story showed how he was al…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - The Choice
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - The Choice
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Choice RUTH 1:10-19a When my wife’s multiple sclerosis was first diagnosed, I wrote to tell her pastor, who had also been a mentor of mine. I remember reading his reply. He told us how that morning he happened to have been studying the story of Jesus’ making the water into wi…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How Naomi's Life Falls Apart
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How Naomi's Life Falls Apart
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How Naomi’s Life Falls Apart RUTH 1:1-9 One Sunday in the church to which we belonged in England that story was the set Old Testament passage on a day when I was due to preach. My default instinct is to look to the Old Testament passage as the one on which to preach (someone has …
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How Not to Save the Situation
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How Not to Save the Situation
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How Not to Save the Situation JUDGES 21:1-25 The story goes that in 1941, on the eve of the U.S. entry into the 1939–1945 war, two teenage ham radio operators who had joined the U.S. National Guard were enrolled into the army and were trained in “scrambling” messages to try to av…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - The Story Reaches Its Lowest Point (II)
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - The Story Reaches Its Lowest Point (II)
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Story Reaches Its Lowest Point (II) JUDGES 20:1-48 For some years now there has been ongoing tension between Russia and Georgia. Sometimes it seems open to being characterized as a little comical; Russia banned the import of Georgian wine on the grounds that it did not meet p…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - The Story Reaches Its Lowest Point (I)
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - The Story Reaches Its Lowest Point (I)
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Story Reaches Its Lowest Point (I) JUDGES 19:1-30 One of the Oscar contenders at the time I write is the movie Precious, the story of a teenager whose life is characterized by systematic abuse in the context of her family, including rape and incest on the part of her father a…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Desperate Dan
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Desperate Dan
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Desperate Dan JUDGES 18:1-31 When we were in the midst of agreeing to come to California for me to teach here, one of our students at my seminary in England sensed God saying to her one day in chapel, “Tell John, ‘Judges 18:6.’” “I don’t know what it says,” she replied. “Never mi…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - But Samson's Hair Began to Grow Again