Job 23:10: “But He knows [the path] that I...
December 18th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalEliphaz mentioned God and gold in the last chapter: "Yes, the Almighty will be ...
Job 22:8: “But the mighty man possessed the...
December 17th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalEliphaz again condemned Job; this time accusing him of oppressing the poor and needy. ...
Job 21:7–8: “Why do the wicked live and become...
December 16th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob's friends had exhausted him with their continued argument that the wicked never prospered ...
Job 20:27–29: “The heavens will reveal his...
December 15th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalZophar took up his argument against Job again, claiming that God would make a ...
Job 19:25–26: “For I [Job] know that my Redeemer...
December 14th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalIn the face of all his friends' condemnation, Job held on to one truth: ...
Job 18:21: “Surely such are the dwellings of...
December 13th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalBildad attacked his friend Job for the second time. His flawed theology was that ...
Job 17:9: “Yet the righteous will hold to his...
December 12th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob realized that if believers who found themselves in similar situations remained strong, remained ...
Job 16:1–2: “Then Job answered and said:...
December 11th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob informed his friends he'd heard all the miserable statements they were telling him, ...
Job 15:14: “What is man, that he could be pure?...
December 10th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob's comforters had been taking turns hurling insults at him; and in chapter 15, ...
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December 9th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob asked God a penetrating question, one that brings us face-to-face with the common ...
Job 13:23–24: “How many are my [Job] iniquities...
December 8th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob turned his appeal from his friends, who were not helping him at all, ...
Job 12:10: “In whose hand is the life of every...
December 7th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalIn chapter 12, Job responded to his "friend's" simplistic formulas and bad theology. They ...
Job 11:4: “For you [Job] have said, / `My doctrine...
December 6th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalThe last "counselor," Zophar the Naamathite, stepped up to interrogate Job, bringing the same ...
Job 10:20–22: “Are not my days few? / Cease!...
December 5th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob was struggling and saying something like, "Let my last few days be in ...
Job 9:32–33: “For He [God] is not a man,...
December 4th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalGod is not human. He is not a flawed man that we can simply ...
Job 8:1–3: “Then Bildad the Shuhite answered...
December 3rd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob's second friend-accuser, Bildad, also tried to convince Job that his suffering was the ...
Job 7:20–21: “Have I [Job] sinned? / What...
December 2nd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob was a godly man. He wasn't walking in any willful sin, and God ...
Job 6:14: “To him who is afflicted, kindness...
December 1st, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob rebuked his friend Eliphaz in this chapter because Eliphaz believed Job was suffering ...
Job 5:8–9: “But as for me [Eliphaz], I would...
November 30th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalEliphaz began to praise God's goodness, and his description of God would have been ...
Job 4:1–2: “Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered...
November 29th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalJob was a godly man who was suffering. He had lost everything and was ...
Job 3:23–25: “Why is light given to a man...
November 28th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalThe very worst fears Job could have imagined were coming to pass in his ...
Job 2:9–10: “Then [Job’s] wife said...
November 27th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalEverything Job had, livestock, servants, children, his own health, were taken from him. Yet ...
Job 1:22: “In all this Job did not sin nor...
November 26th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalThe Book of Job addresses the difficult question of why sometimes affliction after affliction ...
Esther 10:3: “For Mordecai the Jew was second...
November 25th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalAccording to secular history, King Ahasuerus was assassinated about 10 years later, in 465 ...
Esther 9:1: “Now in the twelfth month, that...
November 24th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalThe new decree of Mordecai, which allowed the Jews to defend themselves, was written ...
Esther 8:7–8: “Then King Ahasuerus said to...
November 23rd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalEven though Haman was dead, the Jews still weren't safe because Haman had tricked ...
Esther 7:7: “Then the king arose in his wrath...
November 22nd, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalEsther followed the council of Mordecai and went to the king on behalf of ...
Esther 6:1–2: “That night the king could...
November 21st, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalHaman's wife and friends advised him to have a gallows built to hang Mordecai, ...
Esther 5:12–13: “Moreover Haman said, ‘Besides,...
November 20th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalHaman believed he was receiving special notice and honor from the queen, but he ...
Esther 4:14: “For if you [Esther] remain completely...
November 19th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalAt the request of Haman, the king issued a decree to destroy the Jews ...
Esther 3:15: “The couriers went out, hastened by...
November 18th, 2023 by Pastor Ed in devotionalMordecai was a Jew and the cousin of Queen Esther. When he refused to ...
