As much as possible, look up, not down; look forward, not back; look after others, not just yourself. It’s very difficult to see into heaven when you’re always looking down. Job and his friends spend a fair bit of time looking down, don’t they! So forgive a brief diversion. One of the repeated calls to […]
When tragedies hit the headlines, the first question always is: “Where’s your God of love now?” […]
We need to be careful of our wishes—we might just get them! Did Job really want to confront God? Job wanted God to be near so he could plead his cause. “I would present my case before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.…Would He contend with me in His great power? No! But He would take note […]
Read More… from September 19, 2025 — Would You Show Up For A Showdown?
“Nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself.” —Meister Eckhart (c 1260–1328) It’s hard to catch anything being said when it comes at us rat-a-tat-tat. But Job picks up one thought from Eliphaz’s last speech. His friend has inferred that God’s abode in the third […]
“Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit” (Ps 51:12). If Eliphaz had only been right in his premise—“Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquity without end?” (Job 22:5)—the words of Job 22 would have been an excellent step-by-step recovery program for a fallen saint. He was wrong, of […]
Read More… from September 17, 2025 — The Path Of Restoration
Job raises a warning to his friends that we all need to heed—the danger of judgmental shortsightedness. Because a man is rich or poor on the outside, does this reflect his status before God? Does this man “say to God, ‘Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. Who is the […]
Read More… from September 16, 2025 — A Deep Dive Into Shallow Thoughts
Jesus called the people to notice the image on their coins’ obverse, and then see the image on them! I was just a boy when I was introduced to the word “obverse.” My grandfather explained that the side of the coin I called “heads” was actually the obverse. Growing up in Canada, that meant the coin […]
Read More… from September 15, 2025 — The Image On Coins & Souls
Half full or half empty? It all depends on whether you’re pouring something in or drinking it up. To coin a word, here’s the dominant question in the book of Job: Is the problem of evil, by merely human wisdom, figure-outable? The secularist might think Job was a pretty good man with a singularly awful […]
Read More… from September 12, 2025 — Another Look At The Problem
How could just two verses from the German Bible, memorized in his childhood, help the downed airman in Nazi territory? It’s both “living and powerful,” as he found out that night. […]