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Your Arm’s Too Short to Box With God!

Job lost his riches, his ten children, and his health. And Job was a man so righteous that God told Satan there was no one like Job on the whole earth (Job 1:8, 2:3). Clearly a man that righteous deserved an easy life. But God had other plans. So is God unjust? Job’s friends wereContinue reading “Your Arm’s Too Short to Box With God!”

You Can’t Stay Mad at God. Job 19.

Five men circle a tiny flame in the desert. Four sit on rocks. A fifth sits in the sand, stripped to the waist. He is covered with oozing sores, boils swollen and bruised like berries beneath the skin. He rubs ashes in the wounds, listening to a friend: “The light of the wicked is snuffedContinue reading “You Can’t Stay Mad at God. Job 19.”

Integrity Builds Courage & Wisdom.

Nothing builds COURAGE and WISDOM faster than integrity. Integrity builds courage because it requires people to do things they find frightening. Integrity builds wisdom because the good decisions it requires draw a person out of darkness and into the light. Both Job and his friends are men of integrity. (But only Job is a manContinue reading “Integrity Builds Courage & Wisdom.”

Wrestling With God.

Jacob is the only person to wrestle with God literally. But countless others have wrestled with God, figuratively speaking. Have you? If God seems silent, or seems to be saying no, DON’T GIVE UP! Keep praying! Don’t quit until the Holy Spirit tells you to quit. “A certain woman … heard of Jesus and cameContinue reading “Wrestling With God.”

Biblical Mysteries.

There are things in the Bible that are … peculiar. A talking donkey. People 900 years old. A prophet swallowed by a fish. Ezekiel’s “street-theater” messages including lying on his side for more than a year. A day when the sun stood still. Jesus healing a blind man with spit and mud. And then there’sContinue reading “Biblical Mysteries.”