Joe | October 7, 2009
To sort of pickup where my last post left off, regarding a line of work that allows me to work from home and be with my family, I ran across a post today over at Church Crunch that talked about a career in online ministry. The part that really got to me was: Just imagine: [...]
Category: Christian Living, Encouragement, Genesis, Hebrews, Malachi | 1 Comment »
Tags: Abraham, children, faith, family, greg laurie, ministry, priorities, suffering, trials, work
Joe | September 9, 2009
It was God’s turn to speak to Job last time. We studied God’s first response to Job by studying His knowledge. We looked at God in His role as Lord over all nature. We ended the last study by asking the question: do you see your sins as scarlet? But God isn’t finished speaking to [...]
Category: 2 Corinthians, Christian Living, Daniel, Encouragement, Job, Nahum, Numbers, Psalms | 2 Comments »
Tags: forgiveness, Job, pride, repentance, suffering, trials
Joe | September 7, 2009
We ended our study last time at Job chapter 14, looking at the first series of discourses between Job and his three friends. From Job 15:1 to Job 37:24, there is a second round of discourses between Job and his friends. For brevity’s sake, I’m skipping ahead now to chapter 38 to God’s first reply to Job. [...]
Category: Agnosticism, Atheism, Christian Living, Encouragement, Ezekiel, Job, Revelation | No Comments »
Tags: Agnosticism, Atheism, Job, Parallels, pride, Prophecy, sin, suffering, wisdom
Joe | September 4, 2009
Job’s three friends have finished their first rounds of “speeches” to him. We ended with Zophar’s first speech to Job. Filled with insults and false judgments, Zophar’s speech didn’t help Job anymore than the other two friends of his. It’s now time for Job to once again speak. He is addressing all three of them, [...]
Category: 1 Samuel, Christian Living, Daniel, Deuteronomy, Encouragement, Job, John, Proverbs, Romans | 6 Comments »
Tags: c.s. lewis, death, forgiveness, hope, Job, justice, sin, suffering, trials
Joe | September 2, 2009
By the end of the tenth chapter of Job, we find Job going back to that dark place of wishing he had never been born. Now it’s Zophar’s turn to have a word with job. Zophar is “the legalist” who presumes to know what God will do in a given circumstance. He acts as though [...]
Category: Christian Living, Encouragement, Job | 3 Comments »
Tags: j vernon mcgee, Job, sin, suffering, trials