Job

Singing and sadness

February 27, 2010

I was looking for this Luther quote the other day and couldn’t find it. Entirely unrelated, I was just reading in The Lutheran Study Bible on Job 36 and Serendipity! When sadness comes to you and threatens to gain the upper hand, then say: Come, I must play our Lord Christ a song on the [...]

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After my skin is destroyed

February 24, 2009

We are slowly working our way through the book of Job in Immanuel’s Sunday morning Scripture Study, but it has also been appointed for daily reading in the Treasury of Daily Prayer recently. Today’s passage was from Job 19, and I was struck in a different way by Job’s well-known words, “I know that my [...]

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If you were Job

January 21, 2009

I gave my 7/8 grade Christian Faith class in our parochial school an assignment recently to read the first two chapters of Job and analyze it. The last part of the assignment was to answer this question: “Describe how you might respond in a similar situation [as Job's].” Most of the responses were probably what [...]

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Trinity 25 sermon

November 17, 2008

  “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.” Job is not only talking about himself in those words; he is talking about us. Our days are numbered, yet in our folly we don’t count them correctly. Your days are determined; the number of your months is with [...]

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123 Meme

November 17, 2008

I was tagged by Pr. Mason Beecroft for this excercise: Turn to page 123 of the book nearest to you. Count the first five sentences. Post the next three. Fortunately I’m at church, so I won’t have to pick up the books lying around the house, like a Pearls Before Swine comic treasury or the [...]

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