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Be Realistic Reading the line in Ecclesiastes 4 about a triple cord not breaking quickly, I remembered an occasion in seminary when I gave our professor of preaching a hard time for using that line to support the idea that a sermon ought to have three points…

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Isaiah for everyone - Comfort My People

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Comfort My People A week ago we had dinner with two clergy friends from England, one of whom commented in passing that on present trends the Church of England would be functionally non-existent in twenty years. I discovered that the comment was echoing speeches at the Church of E…

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Jeremiah for everyone - Compassion Has the Last Word

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Compassion Has the Last Word A variant on whether you see the glass as half full or half empty is whether you look to the future with hope or anxiety. I’m a mildly anxious person myself—I don’t worry much about particular threats or problems, but I’m susceptible to a vague unease…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Drink Is a Brawler

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Drink Is a Brawler A friend who is a recovering alcoholic sometimes comments with dark humour on the process whereby drinking ruins people’s lives. It all but ruined his life, and it has ruined the lives of people he knows…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Enjoy Your Life Mindful of Your Creator

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Enjoy Your Life Mindful of Your Creator I remember the first time I heard Ray Charles perform. Having been blind for many years, he had to be guided toward the piano, but he needed much more help than his blindness alone would have required…

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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…

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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…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - It's Not Enough, but It's Not Nothing

by SPCK - John Goldingay

It's Not Enough, but It's Not Nothing One sunny January day some years ago I came home after a lecture and wheeled my disabled wife down to the row of shops where there was a magnificent ice cream parlor that alas subsequently closed down (evidently we didn’t go there enough)…

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Jeremiah for everyone - On Facing Reality

by SPCK - John Goldingay

On Facing Reality We were doing our monthly stint serving dinner at a homeless shelter last night, and I got to talk to one of the residents. She’d had a successful and lucrative career in the movie business and lived in a house in Malibu…

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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 220

by Twelvebaskets Ltd

A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…

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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 221

by Twelvebaskets Ltd

A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…

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Jeremiah for everyone - Bad News or Good News?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Bad News or Good News? It’s possible to be pretty gloomy about the future. Today’s news includes a white gunman killing six Sikh worshipers in a temple in Milwaukee, which other worshipers took as a hate crime reflecting the assumption that people dressed in Sikh fashion were Mus…

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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…

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Jeremiah for everyone - Criteria for Kingship

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Criteria for Kingship We’re in the midst of a U.S. presidential election, and the pollsters are reporting from day to day the electorate’s views on the candidates…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Does God Have a Wonderful Plan for Your Life?

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Does God Have a Wonderful Plan for Your Life? Students who would like to find their way into teaching sometimes ask how I came to be a professor, so as to make plans for their career trajectory. My answer is that I drifted into where I am now…

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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 …

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Have Not Found A Woman

by SPCK - John Goldingay

I Have Not Found A Woman I just had a message from a young friend who will be in town next week and wants to come to see us. It’s only a few months since she emailed to tell us that she had maybe found the man of her dreams, a man whose instincts about Christian ministry match he…

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Belong to My Love, and His Desire Is toward Me

by SPCK - John Goldingay

I Belong to My Love, and His Desire Is toward Me I once had to review a commentary on the Song for a journal. The author assumed that the Song is about the relationship between a man and a woman and dismissed the idea that under the surface it’s about the relationship between Chr…

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