by Eric Spivey | Feb 19, 2021 | Job: Walking Wounded
This week we continue God’s response to Job: we’ll read back over 38:1-4, then continue through to verse 11. Keep in mind, this is a longer speech; I’d encourage you to read the whole thing through to Job 40, if only because the imagery about...
by Eric Spivey | Feb 13, 2021 | Job: Walking Wounded
I mentioned earlier in the series that the big middle portion of Job involves dialogues between Job and his friends. This week we’re jumping past most of that , and for the next two weeks we’ll look at God’s response to Job in chapter 38 before...
by Eric Spivey | Feb 3, 2021 | Job: Walking Wounded
If you’ve noticed, we’ve stopped moving through Job chronologically. For our discussion this week we’ll take two steps back, before Eliphaz started talking (4:1-9) and before Job spoke after seven days of silence (3:1-10). This week we’ll look...
by Eric Spivey | Jan 28, 2021 | Job: Walking Wounded
Considering we’re in a series on suffering, we had to arrive at this question eventually: why do we suffer? Perhaps you’ve even felt this personally during this series—why do I suffer? As a disclaimer, we will not provide a full answer to this question,...
by Eric Spivey | Jan 24, 2021 | Job: Walking Wounded
You’ll notice that chapter 3 is formatted differently in your Bible than chapters 1-2. That’s because it’s poetry, and Job’s lament kicks off 38 chapters of poetry in the middle of the book. A lot of it is dialogue between Job and his friends,...
