The voice of one who writes better than he speaks but has nonetheless given podcast a chance. A young lad who is painstakingly trying to give a f*ck. The dude who is learning that he won't always be sane, correct and accepted.
Paul in Ephesians 3 talks about a universal family with both physical and unseen members. What is the unifying factor in this family ?
Job and his 3 friends, while they agreed on God's omnipotence and omnipresence, disagreed on God's Justice.
A recent article by Rebecca Bowling on ntwrightonline.org
How best do we help those who are passing through crises and trying times.
At our best, we still have to trust God like we would at our worst times.
There are usually 3 popular positions about. God that people take during crises.
We can only say the right things when we know the right things.
The crux of our faith and the hinge of our gospel is the Resurrection.
There are questions that steers at us in the face , we would rather shy away from those questions until we are faced with problems like Job is doing.
Job's second friend is thinking in a similar fashion to Eliphaz. But his own thoughts have a twist.
By today's standard Job would be diagnosed as having Major depression. How do we know this?
Good things must always happen to Good People. right?
Job and his 3 friends had their own worldwide and opinion about Job's predicament.
When we worry about things before they happen, we put ourselves in jeopardy twice.
Job had in his mind what he thought God was like. We are able to know this from what he said. But was his thoughts right?
Our understanding, as humans, about evil and where it originates from has evolved over time. This episodes attempts to summarily describe this trend in understanding.
As if the events of chapter 1 was not enough, Job finds himself yet in the midst of a personal affliction.
This episode has 3 segments that attempts to ask pertinent questions about God's character while also attempting to provide maxims that allow us deal with the questions.