Send us a text What keeps a person from renouncing what they once swore by when life collapses in a day? We sit with Job on the ash heap, slow down the charged moment with his wife, and examine what “curse God and die” really means when rendered as renounce, reject, or deny. From that ground zero, we trace a pattern as old as Eden: temptation often reaches us through those closest to us, not to scapegoat loved ones, but to expose how grief, fear, and urgency can be weaponized. Job’s reply—“Sh...
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Send us a text What keeps a person from renouncing what they once swore by when life collapses in a day? We sit with Job on the ash heap, slow down the charged moment with his wife, and examine what “curse God and die” really means when rendered as renounce, reject, or deny. From that ground zero, we trace a pattern as old as Eden: temptation often reaches us through those closest to us, not to scapegoat loved ones, but to expose how grief, fear, and urgency can be weaponized. Job’s reply—“Sh...
LIVE DISCUSSION: The Calamities of Job Begin (Part 1 of 4)
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35 minutes
6 days ago
LIVE DISCUSSION: The Calamities of Job Begin (Part 1 of 4)
Send us a text What do you do when the worst day arrives without warning and refuses to end? We walk through Job 1:13–22, where bad news stacks in breathless succession and a faithful man falls to the ground in grief—and worship. The story opens in heaven, where Satan appears not as an equal rival but as a constrained accuser. God permits a test with boundaries, and the action drops to earth in a flurry of messengers: raiders seize oxen and donkeys, fire consumes sheep and servants, Chaldeans...
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Send us a text What keeps a person from renouncing what they once swore by when life collapses in a day? We sit with Job on the ash heap, slow down the charged moment with his wife, and examine what “curse God and die” really means when rendered as renounce, reject, or deny. From that ground zero, we trace a pattern as old as Eden: temptation often reaches us through those closest to us, not to scapegoat loved ones, but to expose how grief, fear, and urgency can be weaponized. Job’s reply—“Sh...
