Job 4:4 Your words have upheld the stumbling,             Strengthening faltering knees.   My knees are faltering and have caused me a fair bit of stumbling, so I identify with the physical nature of these words. Last week I exercised twice, and my knees flared up after a good long while of no pain. But… Continue reading Job 51: Study 38: Job 4:4 – The Encourager

Chapter 2 is Life Balance – How to be Faithful with Everything Entrusted to Me. Sounds pretty daunting. I went over a list of daily tasks I put together with my mentor last night. His first reaction was “You need to pick the top five and focus on them”. I then tried to explain that… Continue reading Morley’s The Christian Man 2: Life Balance

Then Job replied saying: No doubt you are the gentry,             With you all wisdom will die. Yet I, like you, have a mind as well,             I am no less a person than you,                         Indeed, who does not know all these things. I have become one who causes his neighbor to smile,            … Continue reading Job 50: Job 12 – The Amalgamation

Face to face – Laugh as a family – still not for me – Our purpose: Glorify God – Wait on the sign – slow to anger Three days into my routine and many things are not yet habits. I think they say it takes 21 days which would put me at September 12. For… Continue reading Daily Summaries: A new level of randomness 26: A funny family

2 Peter 2:10-22 Revised Standard Version 10 and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones, One of the great things about my bible study group is that we are not in a hurry to finish. The week… Continue reading 2 Peter Lesson 4 – 2:10-22 – Only 32 questions – Part 1

Zeal consumes me – Pray based on God’s love – Left me helpless – Book of Life – Humble will rejoice Big D has been busy writing essays to complete her college application process. We have “narrowed” the list to nine schools. We know she has automatic admittance to one, but that one only admits… Continue reading Daily Summaries: A new level of randomness 25: More math

I started a new book and decided to review it chapter by chapter as I went through it. It is by Patrick Morley who wrote The Man in the Mirror. This book really seems to build on what I can remember of his writing themes and is very easy to read and identify with. Like… Continue reading Morley’s The Christian Man 1: Identity

Job 4:3 Behold, you were always the one encouraging others,                 Strengthening failing hands.   Eliphaz is setting Job up as a hypocrite. He points out the good Job attempted but hammers him with his apparent sin and lack of repentance. Among the choices for “Behold”, my sources had “see”, “think”, “surely”, “look”, and nothing.… Continue reading Job 49: Study 37: Job 4:3 – Be the Barnabas

Job 4:1-2 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied saying: If one ventures a word against you,              Would it be too much? Yet who could hold back his words now?   Back when all the initial anti-masking fervor was beginning, I decided to be an example and wear mine when in… Continue reading Job 48: Study 36: Job 4:1-2 – A Friend – Influence or Deception?

Guilt Not Hidden – My Folly – Because of Me This one is all about me. These come from Psalm 69 and reflect the focus of the first few verses on the author and his sin. Like the author, I am a sinner, and these phrases are all about me and how I fall short.… Continue reading Daily Summaries: A new level of randomness 24: Be like not me