We're in the final stretch for our series on "A Man Called Job" and this week we'll be in Job 38-40. And finally, after thirty plus chapters of dialogue, debate, discussion, and division, we finally get to hear from God. I've called this chapter, "God's Famous Words" and that's because, well, they are. God finally responds to all of the arguments we've heard from Job and ...

After a few weeks off for Easter and pastors being out of town, we're back in the book of Job with another length chunk of text. We've got 6 chapters this week: 32-37. Again, I encourage you to read the passage ahead of Sunday worship. I won't have the chance to read all of it during the sermon. I also encourage you to flip back a few chapters, read some subheadings, and g...

This week, both Dr. Dave and I will be out of town. He's down with Sam and Jill to help them care for Kaydence, his newest granddaughter who was born several weeks premature. Please pray for them as it has been a difficult road for this set of new parents. As for me, I'll be with a number of the high schoolers at Modgnik. Pray that we would have a profitable time worshipin...

This week is Easter Sunday and we're going to take a break from the Book of Job and reflect on the resurrection of Christ and what that should mean to us. We're going to look at one of the great Easter texts as we consider the resurrection of Christ. This is an important thing to do at a time when Christians around the world are celebrating this glorious event. We live in ...

It's been quite a week. We've become somewhat numb over the years to the senseless violence that seems to regularly wash over our country in destructive waves. But this week felt different. A PCA church school was hit. The school meets in the church building. Six lives were lost. While I didn't know any of the victims, I do know four of the church's six Pastors. I know sev...

We have another chunk of Job to work through this week as we come to Job 20-24. By this point, you can probably guess what Job's friends and Job will say. Something along the lines of wicked people get whacked, you're wicked Job, and repent Job from the friends. Then for Job, something along the lines of this isn't fair, the wicked prosper while the righteous don't, and my...

We're continuing our series on "A Man Called Job" and this week we'll be in Job 18-19. These are unusual chapters in that chapter 18 is the second speech by Bildad and contains some of the harshest words in the whole book. If you remember, Bildad is the cold, calculating one who's debating Job's situation at the intellectual level. And then in chapter 19, we see Job respon...

We rarely set out to have an argument, a shouting match, a dialogue that brings hard feelings and strong language. We usually have good intentions going in, but things seem to devolve so easily as frustrations mount and inflammatory statements are not met with grace. Such it is with Job's friends. They've come ostensibly to comfort Job. And we know that they're doing a ter...

This week we'll be in Job 8-10, part of our sermon series on "A Man Called Job." Job has been grieving. He's been lamenting. And now Job's friends have shown up. Last week, we saw Eliphaz get first crack at talking some sense into Job. He's the gentle one and he got nowhere. This week we get friend number 2, name of Bildad, and he's less than gentle. Bildad brings the st...

This week we'll be back in the Book of Job, chapters 4-7, part of our sermon series on "A Man Called Job." Job has grieving for seven days. Job's friends have now shown up. Three friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar have joined him, but so far have said nothing. There are times when words fail. There are times when silence is the best therapy. But, as we saw last week, Jo...