Humility in the Darkness: Job Rebuked Regarding God’s Greatness
March 5/6, 2016 “How great is God – beyond understanding! The number of his years is past finding out” (Job 36:26). In Job 29-37, Job argues with his friends and verges on...
Wisdom in the Darkness: Clinging to God in the Face of Confusion and Adversity
February 27/28, 2016 “But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell?…God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells” (Job 28:12, 23). In the...
Wrestling in the Darkness: Job and His Friends’ Quest for Meaning in Suffering
February 20/21, 2016 “I despise my life…my days have no meaning….When he has tested me, I will come forth as gold” (Job 7:18; 23:10). In Job 3-27, Job enters into a...
Reverence in the Darkness: Job’s Response to God in Suffering
February 13/14, 2016 “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised” (Job 1:21) What does it look like to turn to...
Occupied with Suffering
December 19/20, 2015 1 Peter 4:12-19
Hidden Victory Within Suffering
December 5/6, 2015 1 Peter 3:13-22
Righteous Suffering
November 21/22, 2015 1 Peter 2:11-25
New Life
October 31/November 1, 2015 1 Peter 1:1-12
Talking with God When Pain Looms Large
June 13/14, 2015 Habakkuk 1:12-2:1 Habakkuk lifts his voice to God in lament again but this time calls God’s attention to the unending pain that His people are suffering at...
Suffering and the Surprising Plans of God
June 6/7, 2015 Habakkuk 1:5-11 God’s first response to Habakkuk is surprising at numerous levels. God will respond to Habakkuk’s call for punishment of wicked but it will come in...