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Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Divisiveness of Stuff
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Divisiveness of Stuff
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Divisiveness of Stuff Genesis 31:1-29 Money divides people from one another. A news item this week related how a twenty-five-year feud had been simmering in a particular family. When the father died, with the mother’s collusion his son concealed his father’s ownership of a nu…
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Pain of a Family Divided by Miles
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Pain of a Family Divided by Miles
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Pain of a Family Divided by Miles Genesis 31:30-54 When my wife and I started dating and then wanted to get engaged, her parents were totally against it. They had some plausible reasons. I was a long-haired lout (it was the 1960s), and they weren’t sure I was the kind of man …
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - When the King Isn't Tough Enough
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - When the King Isn't Tough Enough
by SPCK - John Goldingay
When the King Isn’t Tough Enough 1 Samuel 15: 1- 33 According to news reports, at U.S. bases in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in the first decade of the twenty-first century we were engaged in the torture of people suspected of terrorist acts. This involved keeping people in constrained…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Everyone Is Against Me
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Everyone Is Against Me
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Everyone is against Me 1 Samuel 18: 17- 19: 24 Last night I watched a Jordanian Oscar-nominated movie called Captain Abu Raed, whose central figure is an airport janitor at Amman Airport (just up the street from Jabesh-gilead, actually). In a subordinate plot point, he gets to kn…
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - Do People Change?
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - Do People Change?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Do People Change? Genesis 35:1-29 We used to meet each week for dinner with a group of friends, including a pastor or two, a therapist or two, and a missiologist or two, and one of the topics we used to come back to was transformation. Mission is concerned with it; ministry is co…
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Competition to Be the Shrewdest Sheep Farmer
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - The Competition to Be the Shrewdest Sheep Farmer
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Competition to Be the Shrewdest Sheep Farmer Genesis 30:22-43 After church this morning, one of our senior laypeople asked me about Hagar. Someone had implied in a comment to her that Hagar was a prostitute and/or a concubine. In effect I explained that Hagar’s status was mor…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - They All Did What was Right in Their Own Eyes
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - They All Did What was Right in Their Own Eyes
by SPCK - John Goldingay
They All Did What Was Right in Their Own Eyes JUDGES 17:1-13 I am an Episcopalian/Anglican priest, but I don’t really believe in priesthood. One of the first things God pointed out at Sinai was that the whole people of God is a priesthood (see Exodus 19), and the New Testament re…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - What Do You Do When You're Desperate
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - What Do You Do When You're Desperate
by SPCK - John Goldingay
What Do You Do When You’re Desperate? 1 Samuel 28: 3- 29: 11 This coming Sunday is the nine-month anniversary since my wife died. I think about her a lot and dream about her, sometimes in her wheelchair as she was for years but sometimes fit and able to live a normal life, as she…
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