Job
A Lengthy Trek Through The Landscape of Divine Sovereignty and Human Suffering
Job 1:1-22; Matthew 2:16-23; Hebrews 11:32-40
Job, Satan, and the Sovereign God
Job 1:1-12; Luke 22:31-34; I Peter 5:8-10
Praising the One Who Could Have Prevented Our Pain
Job 1:13-22; Psalm 43:1-5; Psalm 89:46-52
Accepting Evil from God The Ultimate Struggle of Faith
Job 2:1-10; Isaiah 45:1-7; Amos 3:1-6
Accepting Evil from God The Ultimate Struggle of Faith (#2)
Job 2:1-10; Genesis 50:15-21; Isaiah 19:22; 30:19-20; 25-26
The Beauty and Wisdom of Knowing When to Say Nothing
Job 2:11-13; Psalm 41:1-9; I Timothy 2:1-2
The Sum of All Human Fears Intense, Prolonged Suffering
Job 3:1-26; Psalm 88:1-18
When Good Friends Give Bad Advice
Job 4:1-6; John 9:1-7; II Thessalonians 1:3-10
Job Blameless Sufferer, Honest Struggler, Earnest, Missionary to His Gentile Friends
Job 4:1-21; Acts 17:16-31; Matthew 28:16-20
Prayer and the Need to Pretend
Job 5:1-7; Lamentations 2:10-20; John 9:1-7
The Problem with Neat and Tidy Theories (or Theologies)
Job 4:7-11; 5:8-27; II Peter 3:3-9
Lord, Don’t Allow My Pain to Drive Me Away from You
Job 6:1-10; Proverbs 30:7-9; Romans 8:28-39
When People Expect Vessels of Clay to Hold Up Like Stone and Bronze
Job 6:11-13; II Cor. 1:8-11; II Cor. 4:1-12
Being True Friends in Very Tough Times
Job 6:14-30; Proverbs 17:17; II Timothy 1:15-18
The Absolute Indispensability of Hope
Job 7:1-21; Romans 15:1-13; Hebrews 6:13-20
Being Forgiven, Feeling Forgiven, Wanting Evidence of Forgiveness
Job 7:17-21; Psalm 32:1-5; Luke 7:36-50
Learning To Speak the Truth (In Love)
Job 8:1-19; Proverbs 12:18; Matthew 7:24-29
The Justice of God and Those Nagging Exceptions to the Rule
Job 8:20-9:24; Psalm 73:1-17; Ecclesiastes 8:7-17
Having to Live With Things Beyond Our Control
Job 9:25-35; Matthew 14:22-33; Romans 7:14-25
Getting Mad At God A Sign of Hope in the Despairing
Job 10:1-7; Psalm 44:9-24; Psalm 35:11-25
Former Love, Present Affliction, and the Truth About Doubt
Job 10:8-22; Psalm 42:1-11 , / Psalm 77:1-9
True Wisdom Holding Two Seemingly Contradictory Truths in Tension
Job 11:1-12; Matthew 11:25-30; Luke 22:20-23
Job and the Relentless Pressure to Repent for Something We Didn’t Do
Job 11:13 – 12:6; Isaiah 64:1-12; John 9:1-7
Man’s Greatest Struggle Affirming God’s Sovereignty Even When Misfortune Strikes
Job 12:1-25; Isaiah 14:24-27; Isaiah 46:8-11; Daniel 4:34-35
The Suffering Person’s Greatest Yearning To Have God Tell Us Why
Job 13:1-24; Psalm 69:1-18; Matthew 27:45-46
Is Present Suffering Punishment for Former Sins?
Job 13:1-24; Psalm 69:1-18; Matthew 27:45-46
Heaven? Hell? Sheol? Hades? And How to Escape the Wrath of God
Job 14:1-22; Psalm 32:1-5; Micah 7:18-20
Dense or Deaf? When People Refuse to Listen, Budge or Grow
Job 15:1-35; II Corinthians 1:8-11; Galatians 1:3-10
If Only We Could Trade Places, Then You’d Understand
Job 16:1-21; Hebrews 4:14-16; Romans 3:31-39
The Pain of Shattered Dreams and The Quest for Hope
Job 16:22-17:16; Psalm 43:1-5; Habakkuk 3:16-19
Getting Preferential Treatment in the Church
Job 18:1; 19:22; Corinthians 12:21-26; James 2:1-7
I Know That My Redeemer Lives!
Job 19:23-27; Isaiah 53:4-12; I Corinthians 15:12-32