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Chapter 1: Discipleship

Chapter 2: Repentance

Chapter 3: Providence

2. Johannes Pedersen describes the situation thus: “The sun and the moon, which meant so much for the maintenance of order in life, often became independent gods among the neighboring peoples or became part of the nature of other gods. Job expressly denies having kissed his hand to these mighty beings (‘ . . . if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand; this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judgment, for I should have been false to God above’). And in a judgment prophecy it is said that Yahweh will visit all the host of heaven on high, and the kings on earth, and the sun and the moon shall be put to shame, when Yahweh shall reign in Zion (‘Then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed; for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem.’ Isaiah 24:33).” Israel: Its Life and Culture (London: Oxford University Press, 1926), p. 635.

Chapter 4: Worship

Chapter 5: Service

Chapter 6: Help

Chapter 7: Security

Chapter 8: Joy

Chapter 9: Work

Chapter 10: Happiness

Chapter 11: Perseverance

Chapter 12: Hope

Chapter 13: Humility

Chapter 14: Obedience

Chapter 15: Community

1. Philip Slater, in his searching study of the way Americans live together, says that all of us have a desire and need for community—“the wish to live in trust and fraternal cooperation with one’s fellows in a total and visible collective entity. It is easy to produce examples of the many ways in which Americans attempt to minimize, circumvent, or deny the interdependence upon which all human societies are based. We seek a private house, a private means of transportation, a private garden, a private laundry, self-service stores, and do-it-yourself skills of every kind. An enormous technology seems to have set itself the task of making it unnecessary for one human being ever to ask anything of another in the course of going about his daily business . . . . We seek more and more privacy, and feel more alienated and lonely when we get it . . . . Our encounters with others tend increasingly to be competitive as a result of the search for privacy. We less and less often meet our fellow man to share and exchange, and more and more often encounter him as an impediment or a nuisance: making the highway crowded when we are rushing somewhere, cluttering and littering the beach or park or wood, pushing in front of us at the supermarket, taking the last parking place, polluting our air and water, building a highway through our house, blocking our view, and so on. Because we have cut off so much communication with each other we keep bumping into each other, and thus a higher and higher percentage of our interpersonal contacts are abrasive.” Pursuit of Loneliness (Boston: Beacon, 1970), pp. 7-8.

Chapter 16: Blessing

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Chapter 1: Discipleship

Chapter 2: Repentance

Chapter 3: Providence

Chapter 4: Worship

Chapter 5: Service

Chapter 6: Help

Chapter 7: Security

Chapter 8: Joy

Chapter 9: Work

Chapter 10: Happiness

Chapter 11: Perseverance

Chapter 12: Hope

Chapter 13: Humility

Chapter 14: Obedience

Chapter 15: Community

Chapter 16: Blessing