by Eric Spivey | Feb 27, 2021 | future-weeks, Job: Walking Wounded
This week is our last week in Job; next week we’ll have a stand-alone sermon, then we’ll kick off our Easter series in the Gospel of Luke. To wrap up our tour of Job we’ll turn to chapter 42, the Epilogue, to read the conclusion of Job’s...
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,...