Job 12:5 The complacent lack respect for calamity, But disaster awaits any who stumble. I went through Job 26:6 today and have come away with five viable alternatives. The only difference is the main word in each of the two stitches. All five are right, but I have to pick one. It will… Continue reading Get a Lamp – Study of Job 12:5
Job 12:4 Option A I have become one who causes his neighbor to smile, I who called upon God and He answered me, A blameless and upright man, a laughingstock. I think something is lost in translation. I struggled with this first stitch to the point I am not sure I really had… Continue reading A Joke for Mockery or Pride – Study of Job 12:4
Job 12:3 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 was waiting for input from a client and had an idea to see what study our group should do after we finish Hebrews. I… Continue reading Seek It – Study of Job 12:3
Five for Life I wrapped up the series For the Boys once I stopped leading them each week after they reach their senior year. But I saw the opportunity to meet with them one last time before they scattered for college. So, this blog covers what I wanted to tell my “9th grade boys” that… Continue reading For the Boys: Reprise – Five for Life
Job 12:1-2 Then Job replied saying: No doubt you are the gentry, With you all wisdom will die. As these are exercises in my understanding of what is going on in the verse and my life at the times I write these, I hesitate to do many in one day. My life is… Continue reading Offend by Doing – Study of Job 12:1-2
Hebrews 13:8-25 NIV 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so. 10 We have an altar from… Continue reading The Letter of Hebrews 13:8-25 (Lesson 34 & 35) – Share the Love
Job 25 – The Amalgamation Then Job spoke out saying: Dominion and awe belong to God, Who established order in the heights of heaven. Is there any number to His forces? Upon whom does His light not shine? How then can man be justified before God? How can one born of woman… Continue reading Job Chapter 25: The Amalgamation (and a regular blog to boot)
Hebrews 13:1-7 – King James Version 13:1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and… Continue reading The Letter of Hebrews 13:1-7 (Lessons 32 & 33) – Love Who How?
Hebrews 12:11-29 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13 “Make level paths for your feet,”[b] so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed. 14 Make every… Continue reading The Letter of Hebrews 12:11-29 (Lessons 29-31) – Bitter Root, Fear, Fire
Job 24 Why as times are not hidden from Shaddai, Do those that know Him not behold His days? They move boundary landmarks, Carry off flocks to pasture. They drive before them the ass of the fatherless, Seize the widow’s ox in pledge. They force the paupers from the path, The… Continue reading Job Chapter 24: The Amalgamation