For Job to think of himself so high and that it’s wrong for God to put him so low Job is still reasoning in the divine retribution principle.
Read moreColumn: The Ministry of Finance (10/29/21)
That’s when it becomes my challenge to hold up a mirror, as kindly as possible, and help them see what they can’t see, to give them freedom (not just financially).
Read moreColumn: To Those in Pain (10/22/21)
There will always be problems, always be tweaks to make or lessons to learn or habits to create.
But there will only be one today, one present moment like this one.
Read moreJob 29, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
Job is saying that he is the mediator, savior, and ultimate head. This is close but not quite right.
Read moreColumn: Cultivating Communities, not Cults (10/15/21)
Communities are people bonded together not so much over who they are as much as who they are trying to become.
Read moreJob 28, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
According to the Bible, your starting point has to be divine revelation; if you don’t start there you can’t know anything truly outside of that.
Read moreJob 27, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
Job uses this chapter to point out that his friends are faulty.
Read moreColumn: Make a Beautiful Life (10/8/21)
What if your darkness, brokenness, frustration, and difficulty were meant to be dark fibers woven into the beautiful tapestry of your life?
Read moreColumn: Let's Stay in the Sunlight (10/1/21)
But what I learn, with every passing cloud that floats overhead, is that when our eyes are on Him, through it all, it is well with us.
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