Here’s a window to my world of study – – this is how I organized my attempt to understand Job’s friends. One of the real challenges of preaching Job is that it’s such a long book. There are three cycles…
Why is God Harder on Job’s Friends Than on Complaining Job?
“Job stays married to God and throws dishes at him; the three friends have a polite non-marriage . . .” Peter Kreeft Anyone who studies the biblical book of Job knows that in between Job saying, “blessed be the name…
Why Did God Allow Satan to Harm Job and His Family?
Why would God allow Satan to harm Job? Is God placing side bets while we battle cancer or lose loved ones? Here are some preliminary thoughts in response to those questions. Any study of the book of Job raises questions…
Four Questions Every Thinking Human Being Must Answer
If we are to take our heads out of the sand, and hit the hard questions head-on, so that we can be prepared for suffering, as we plan to do in the book of Job on Sunday, then we need…
The “Head in the Sand” Approach To Suffering is a Bad Idea
Everyone needs to prepare for suffering. It’s sure to come. Step forward in preparing for suffering by being part of the Job sermon series at the Red Brick Church beginning on October 5, 2014. Suffering is a fact of life.…
Would you agree that “time” is the hard part?
Do you agree – – “time” is the aspect of suffering that makes it so difficult? I have been preparing for months a sermon series: A Journey With Job: Seeing and Savoring the Beauty of Christ Amid the Long Walk…
Job: Preaching Propositions
During our upcoming series on Job in the Fall, we will see that Christ alone is sufficient to sustain us through whatever suffering we may face. He is the only one who can truly see us through the inevitable pain…
Current Questions for the Study of Job
Which “Job” questions are most important for pastors when preaching Job? Are there any “Job questions” in the below list that aren’t important? Immersed in Job as I am, one notices a number of questions that come up in “evangelical”…
Ash Helps Us Move to the Heart of the Matter of Job
I continue to prayerfully reflect on the book of Job. Our Fall series on Job will begin at the Red Brick Church, D.V., on October 5. In preparation, I am interacting a great deal with Christopher Ash’s recent commentary published…
9 Reasons Tim Keller’s Book on Suffering is Superb
I am not given to hyperbole. I’m the guy who starts a debate when someone uses words like “ever” or “all.” But here goes with a strong statement anyway. As a pastor, who who shepherds people, I would assert that…