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Isaiah for everyone - Things That Shouldn’t Happen, Yet Do
Isaiah for everyone - Things That Shouldn’t Happen, Yet Do
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Things That Shouldn’t Happen, Yet Do As we woke this morning, the man in the apartment above had already set his washing machine going, and it was making a clunkier noise than usual. Indeed, at first I thought there was a helicopter hovering above the building…
Isaiah for Everyone - What to do With a Whore's Fee?
Isaiah for Everyone - What to do With a Whore's Fee?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
What to Do with a Whore’s Fee Education and health have been realms where Christians get involved both to benefit people in other cultures and to draw people to Christ. I recently heard about an Indian with the same vision for his soft ware company…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Wisdom's Dictionary
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Wisdom's Dictionary
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Wisdom’s Dictionary I turned onto the freeway near our house, built up speed down the ramp, noticed as I reached the main lanes that there was a gap in the traffic but that a bunch of cars was on its way, so I built up speed to 80 or so to get ahead of them…
Isaiah for everyone - Worship That Issues from Human Instinct
Isaiah for everyone - Worship That Issues from Human Instinct
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Worship That Issues from Human Instinct The most disappointing and frustrating church service I have attended in California took place one Mother’s Day, when I played hooky from our church because I wanted to avoid a service preoccupied by the topic of mothers and went to another…
Jeremiah for everyone - Your Marriage Isn't Your Own
Jeremiah for everyone - Your Marriage Isn't Your Own
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Your Marriage Isn't Your Own I’ve mentioned my first wife’s illness, which was a dominant feature of our marriage for most of its forty-two years. If I’d wanted to separate Ann’s illness from my work, I couldn’t have done so…
Isaiah for everyone - Can a Mother Forget?
Isaiah for everyone - Can a Mother Forget?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Can a Mother Forget? At a party, I overheard a mother talking to her daughter who is soon to have a baby, about how it would be to look after the baby, and about how it had been for the mother herself in relation to her daughter. The mother had gone back to work soon after her da…
Jeremiah for everyone - Expect Great Things
Jeremiah for everyone - Expect Great Things
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Expect Great Things In the 1780s a shoemaker and part-time Baptist preacher near Northampton in England named William Carey used to do his work with a world map on the wall in front of him, and while he worked he’d pray for the nations of the world, many of whom knew little or no…
Jeremiah for everyone - Go Together Like a Horse and Carriage
Jeremiah for everyone - Go Together Like a Horse and Carriage
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Go Together Like a Horse and Carriage One of my first memories of being a wet-behind-the-ears young parish minister is an interview with a couple who wanted to get married in our church though they were not members of it…
Isaiah for everyone - God Is Our Refuge and Strength, Really?
Isaiah for everyone - God Is Our Refuge and Strength, Really?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
God Is Our Refuge and Strength, Really? I have just read a message from an Indian Christian couple who expect tomorrow to go to another village for a day of teaching for which they expect Christians to gather from many villages in the area. They’re thirsty to hear the Word of God…
Isaiah for everyone - Gods You Have to Carry and the God Who Carries You
Isaiah for everyone - Gods You Have to Carry and the God Who Carries You
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Gods You Have to Carry and the God Who Carries You We had Mother’s Day dinner yesterday with some Jews and some Roman Catholics and some agnostics. The agnostics thought that if you need the prop of faith in something in order to keep you going, fine, but if you can live your lif…
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