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Nice People, Nasty Advice
Published 7/26/19 Read Job 5:1-7 "Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? Surely...

Janette
Jul 25, 20193 min read
Avoid the Prattle of Religious Small Talk
Published 7/25/19 Read Job 4:20 Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it....

Janette
Jul 24, 20192 min read
Reject Loose Bible Interpretations
Published 7/24/19 Read Job 4:12 Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it. Reflect • How do you...

Janette
Jul 23, 20192 min read
Beware--Some Put God in a Box
Published 7/23/19 Read Job 4:8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. Reflect • Is your view of God...

Janette
Jul 22, 20193 min read
A Sufferer Attracts "Fixers" the Way Roadkill Attracts Vultures
Published 7/22/19 Read Job 4:2 If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? Reflect • When...

Janette
Jul 21, 20192 min read
Job's Lament No. 4: Why Won't the Turmoil End?
Published 7/19/19 Read Job 3:25-26 "What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me. I have no peace, no quietness; I...

Janette
Jul 18, 20193 min read
Job's Lament No. 3: Why Can't I Die Instead?
Published 7/18/19 Read Job 3:16-19 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light? There the wicked...

Janette
Jul 17, 20194 min read
Job's Lament No. 2: Why Was I Born into This?
Published 7/17/19 Read Job 3:11-15 "Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? Why did the knees receive me? Or why...

Janette
Jul 16, 20193 min read
Job's Lament No. 1: Why Has Everything Soured?
Published 7/16/19 Read Job 3:1-4 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. He said: "May the day of my birth...

Janette
Jul 15, 20193 min read
Empathy, Not Condemnation
Published 7/15/19 Read Job 2:13 And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for...

Janette
Jul 14, 20193 min read
You Are Not Alone
Published 7/12/19 Read Job 2:11 They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. Reflect • Is your life...

Janette
Jul 11, 20192 min read
When the Hurt Is Unjust
Published 7/11/19 Read Job 2:10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God,...

Janette
Jul 10, 20192 min read
Self-Pity or Surrender?
Published 7/10/19 Read Job 2:4-6 Then Satan answered the Lord and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life....

Janette
Jul 9, 20192 min read
Suffering Is Inescapable
Published 7/9/19 Read Job 2:3 And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the...

Janette
Jul 8, 20193 min read
Setbacks Are Never Easy
Published 7/8/19 Read Job 1:21 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord...

Janette
Jul 7, 20193 min read
Loss of a Loved One
Published 7/5/19 Read Job 1:17-19 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a...

Janette
Jul 5, 20193 min read
Loss of Our Livelihood
Published 7/4/19 Read Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up...

Janette
Jul 3, 20193 min read
When Good People and Bad Things Collide
Published 7/3/19 Read Job 1:8 And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the...

Janette
Jul 2, 20193 min read
Spiritual Leadership in the Good Times
Published 7/2/19 Read Job 1:5 And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise...

Janette
Jul 1, 20193 min read
Is Life Peaceful? (It'll Change)
Published 7/1/19 Read Job 1:1-3 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who...
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Jun 30, 20193 min read
Mighty Savior
Published 6/28/19 Read Isaiah 63:3-6 "I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my...

Janette
Jun 27, 20192 min read
A Fuller Picture
Published 6/27/19 Read Isaiah 61:1-4 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the...

Janette
Jun 27, 20192 min read
Justice in God's Hands
Published 6/25/19 Read Isaiah 59:9-13 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and...

Janette
Jun 24, 20192 min read
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