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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - If Two People Lie Together, They Can Be Warm
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - If Two People Lie Together, They Can Be Warm
by SPCK - John Goldingay
If Two People Lie Together, They Can Be Warm A friend of mine lost his wife some years ago and got married again to a family friend within three months. I was both worried and sympathetic (he had been looked after too well by his first wife and had no idea how to cook), but it ha…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Everything Has Its Time
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…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - The Secret of Life Is...
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - The Secret of Life Is...
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Secret of Life Is… We were in a bar last night to listen to a band playing blues. Behind and alongside us were people who at 8:30 were already rather the worse for wear. My wife commented that you could find some of these same people here every night…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Under the Sun, Where Randomness Rules
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Under the Sun, Where Randomness Rules
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Under the Sun, Where Randomness Rules There will be no remembering on their part, among the people who will be after them. I noted in connection with Proverbs 11 that I am inclined to think that nothing I do has any effect…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Proverbs By Topics
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Proverbs By Topics
by SPCK - John Goldingay
PROVERBS BY TOPICS We have noted that many topics recur in different places in Proverbs. Presumably the compilers intended it that way, to encourage people to reflect on one saying at a time. Proverbs mirrors the Bible as a whole in not being ordered systematically. But there’s a…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - New Year’s Day
Times and Seasons - Full Service - New Year’s Day
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Full Service New Year’s Day Service contents: Introduction: The lights of Christmas Hymn: Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided or Come let us anew our journey pursue or What clutter has the last year left Link: This past year has shown a world divided… Hymn: God weep…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Creation and Numbers
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…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I'm Just a Weary Sojourner, but I Have Some Words from God
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I'm Just a Weary Sojourner, but I Have Some Words from God
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I'm Just a Weary Sojourner, but I Have Some Words from God My wife sits at the desk next to mine working harder than me at a course that is part of her degree program. There’s some kind of incompatibility between the subject and/or the teacher’s method of teaching that is driving…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - You Could Suddenly Break, and There Could Be No Healing
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - You Could Suddenly Break, and There Could Be No Healing
by SPCK - John Goldingay
You Could Suddenly Break, and There Could Be No Healing The news is full of the story of a soldier in the U.S. army who ran amok and killed sixteen people in Afghanistan. When we discussed it at our Lent group last night as we prayed a psalm for him and for his victims, one of th…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - For Lenten Thought
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 …
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Faithful Are the Wounds of a Friend
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…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Things Complicated and Back to Front
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Things Complicated and Back to Front
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Things Complicated and Back to Front The time of our move to the United States in 1997 happened to be the moment when my disabled first wife, Ann, became totally wheelchair-bound. When I had been offered a job here a few months previously, she could still get about a little with …
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - On Heaping Coals
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - On Heaping Coals
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Heaping Coals Like many Libyans involved in the rebellion against Colonel Mu‘ammar al-Gadhafi’s government, Abdul Ghani Aboughreis, a worship leader in a Tripoli mosque, could reasonably have felt bitter against Gadhafi’s supporters…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Acquire Truth Don't Sell It