Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Job

An Appointment We Will Keep

JOB 21:23-26 – One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure, his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist. Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity. They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.”   The Old Testament book of Job offers a wide range of…

Getting To Know Ourselves

JOB 42:1-6 – Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question…

Hope When We Don’t Feel Hopeful

JOB 19:25 – For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.” This nugget is very dark. Dark in the sense the person stating today’s scripture, Job, is in a very dark place.  Let me encourage you to do one thing.  Right now, read all of Job 19. It is only 29 verses. When…

Yes, The Devil Is Real and Personal

JOB 1:6-12 – Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” And the Lord said…