Nancy Guthrie’s What Grieving People Wish You Knew, written after two of her children died, is very helpful.
– at the end we find that it is rather mixed, but Job is more right than wrong, and his three friends more wrong than right.
Job is an extreme book, but suffering can come in waves. Recall again that Job knows nothing of the role of Satan in all this.
The Presbyterian Church of Australia is deeply concerned at recent events surrounding the resignation of Andrew Thorburn as chief executive of the AFL’s Essendon Football Club. We believe that this marks a watershed moment in Australian history – the day we have departed from some well-established common law principles, where …
For what it is worth, ‘Britney Spears’ is an anagram for ‘Presbyterians’. Of more significance is her recent foray into the world of social media where she has declared that she no longer believes in God but is an atheist. She wrote that she had rejected religion as a result …
Mark 3:31-35. Bonhoeffer refers to four creation mandates for all humanity: labour, marriage, government, and the Church as the community of believers.
Satan only appears four times in the Old Testament – Genesis 3; 1 Chronicles 21:1; Zechariah 3:1; and Job 3. The exchange in Job 1:6-12 is never revealed to Job.
Luther called it ‘magnificent and sublime as no other book of Scripture’. Calvin preached 159 sermons on it during 1554-1555. Joseph Caryl gave 424 lectures on it over 24 years.
Christ is both our example and our substitute – read 1 Peter 2:21-24. Hebrews 12:1 is ‘the epilogue to the former chapter’ (Calvin).
The death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022 has led to a significant outpouring of emotion throughout much of the world, even in the United States which is not part of the British Commonwealth. Queen Elizabeth was on the throne before I was born. She reigned for seventy …
In verses 30-35a faith overcomes, bur in verses 35b-40 faith suffers adversity. Robert Bruce: ‘We learn that faith does not always bring a temporal deliverance, nor is a temporal deliverance ever promised, so no one can claim from God what his word has not guaranteed.’ Read Acts 12:1-3, 7 …
