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Psalms for Everyone - The God of Atonement and the God of the Harvest
Psalms for Everyone - The God of Atonement and the God of the Harvest
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The God of Atonement and the God of the Harvest Psalm 65 A lively but respectable-looking student was telling me her life story. She had reacted against a Christian upbringing while she was at college and (among other things) had become involved with drugs and with a guy who was …
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Eating with God
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Eating with God
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Eating with God NUMBERS 28:1- 29: 40 A week ago, our church had a homecoming/harvest barbecue. Alas, I missed it because I had arranged to be elsewhere, but I was there in my imagination, partly because I know these guys know how to barbecue. As I write now, in my imagination I c…
Exodus and Leviticus - How to build a Church
Exodus and Leviticus - How to build a Church
by SPCK - John Goldingay
How to Build a Church 1 EXODUS 25: 1- 26: 30 At our church we have just begun inviting ourselves to make offerings for work that needs to be done to the buildings. We have a list of priorities, like the replacement of some wooden beams that have rotted in the rains (it is Califor…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Murder Desecrates the Land
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Murder Desecrates the Land
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Murder Desecrates the Land Deuteronomy 21: 1-23 Last night I watched the second episode of an enchanting TV series called The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. At one level it’s just another detective series of the “Miss Marple” genre, but it has a winsomeness deriving from its set…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Dealing with Ambition
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Dealing with Ambition
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Dealing with Ambition NUMBERS 16: 1-17: 13 I am amazed that anyone seeks a position of leadership. We once had a new principal come to the seminary where I taught in England who unveiled his detailed and carefully thought-out vision for its future. The faculty took one look and s…
Exodus and Leviticus - The Expiation Day
Exodus and Leviticus - The Expiation Day
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Expiation Day LEVITICUS : 16: 1-34 I climbed Mount Sinai in September 1973, near the beginning of the seventh month in the Jewish year as Leviticus computes it (counting from Passover), and thus just after the New Year on the modern Jewish calendar. It was five days before Yo…
Exodus and Leviticus - The Life Is in the Blood
Exodus and Leviticus - The Life Is in the Blood
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Life Is In the Blood LEVITICUS : 17: 1- 18: 30 A month ago a woman came to see me to talk about the general difficulties of her life. Her mother had died some time previously. She was barely on speaking terms with her father. She certainly was not on speaking terms with her m…
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer C
Echoing the Word - Eucharistic Prayer C
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
11 Eucharistic Prayer C Eucharistic Prayer C draws the Church of England back to the Reformation era and to Thomas Cranmer. Influenced by the continental reformers, the Second English Prayer Book of 1552 departed significantly from Catholic theology and liturgical practice, not l…
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