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Ensuring Justice NUMBERS 35:1- 36: 13 A Florida lawyer commented this month that it is becoming more and more common to hear news accounts of people convicted of first-degree murder, sentenced to death, then released many years later after it is determined (usually through DNA te…

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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…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Finding Yourself in Your Family Story

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Finding Yourself in Your Family Story NUMBERS 1: 1-2: 34 My son Mark just came across a photo from exactly twelve years ago. My wife, Ann, and my mother are sitting at a picnic table; I am lying on the grass (“typically,” Mark said; I am not sure what to make of that). Somewhere …

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Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - Fear

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Fear Genesis 31:55- 32:24a There is something to be said for fear. On one seminary study tour to Israel and Palestine, we were on our way back from Beersheba to Jerusalem. The Israeli authorities were advising groups to follow a route that stayed in Israeli territory rather than …

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Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Facing the Other Set of Facts

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Is Anything Stable? Psalm 89: 1-37 My wife once lived in a house on the side of a canyon in California that seemed capable of tumbling into the ocean if there was an earthquake, and after one worrying quake not far away she took to checking the weekly earthquake reports. Apparent…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Five Pushy Women

by SPCK - John Goldingay

Five Pushy Women NUMBERS 26:52- 27: 11 I just came across someone’s list of the five feminist biblical scholars who had most influenced him. The idea of “feminist” biblical scholars is that these are people who in their study of Scripture are conscious of their particular identit…

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1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - How Not to Display Accurate Empathy II

by SPCK - John Goldingay

It Takes a Miracle 1 Samuel 1: 12-19a A little while ago a woman came to see me to talk about the way her husband was abusing her. It involved some physical abuse; he had hit her once or twice, but the background was not that he was an inherently violent person or a drunkard. The…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - How It All Goes Wrong (Again)

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How It All Goes Wrong (Again) NUMBERS 25:1- 26: 51 Numbers cause us some anxiety. I am often discouraged by the numbers of people in our church, afraid it is dying (the average age is quite high). A shrinking church will seem to be a failing church. So from time to time I glance …

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1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - How To Manipulate the Old Man in Order to Get Things Done

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Manipulate the Old Man in Order to Get Things Done 1 Kings 1:1-53 I have friends in Kyrgyzstan, where a few weeks ago there were protests against the president and the government on the part of the opposition party and its supporters, citing widespread government corruptio…

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1 and 2 Kings for Everyone - How to Gain and Lose God's Sympathy

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Gain and Lose God’s Sympathy 2 Kings 20:1-21 My wife Ann had multiple sclerosis for forty-two years until she died a year ago. We and other people prayed for her healing on lots of occasions in many ways, supported by a number of high-profile figures in the world of prayin…

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Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - How to Live in a Contractual Relationship with God

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Live in a Contractual Relationship with God Genesis 28:16-29: 14a I was trying to explain to a group of Christians the difference between a covenant and a contract in order to suggest that God’s relationship with us is more like the former than the latter. I have a contrac…

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Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Increase the Odds against Yourself

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Increase the Odds against Yourself JUDGES 7: 1-25 Two weeks ago a man tried to blow up a plane going from Amsterdam to Detroit, and one week ago when I came back from London to Los Angeles after Christmas, it took two hours to board the plane rather than the usual half hou…

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Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - How To Make War

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Make War (or How to Make War Impractical) Deuteronomy 19: 1- 20: 20 Last night at dinner, a friend of mine was hopping mad about a meeting she had attended the previous night, when an ex-marine who had become a pacifist was lamenting the wrongness of the war in Afghanistan…

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Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - How to Get Taken In

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Get Taken In JOSHUA 9: 1-21 I have known people who seem to consult God about every detail of their lives, from what to have for dinner to what courses to take next quarter, what college to attend, where to buy a house, or whom to marry. To be honest, I consulted God about…

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Exodus and Leviticus - How to Ordain a Priest

by SPCK - John Goldingay

How to Ordain a Priest EXODUS 28: 1- 29: 37 I shall shortly have completed forty years teaching in seminary, and a bit longer than this in being a priest and pastor. A few years after I started seminary teaching, I became embarrassed to realize that I no longer believed that with…

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1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - I Will Not Offer Worship That Costs Me Nothing

by SPCK - John Goldingay

I Will Not Offer Worship That Costs Me Nothing 2 Samuel 24: 16b- 25 As we left a concert last night, one of my friends commented that he always emerges from live music with renewed energy. I am the same. It reminded me of how I felt after a terrific, animated, dynamic worship ser…

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Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - I'm Not the Hero; the Hero Is God

by SPCK - John Goldingay

I’m Not the Hero; the Hero is God JUDGES 8: 1-35 One of my fond memories of our sons’ childhood is of reading Bible stories to them at bedtime, stories that had been rewritten and illustrated for children; I have now passed on the set of books to the son who has children of his o…

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Exodus and Leviticus - It Was an Ordinary Working Day

by SPCK - John Goldingay

It Was an Ordinary Working Day EXODUS 3: 1-10 It was an ordinary working day. My wife, Ann (but she wasn’t my wife then—in fact, we hadn’t even met), left her university residence in London and took the subway to her medical school. She was just a week or two into her preclinical…

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