This Sunday's message: The Song of Zechariah
March 12
by Pat Damiani on March 12th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 39:1-30In this chapter God reminds Job of how He has created the animals to function in complex ways that no man can understand. I recently learned about the dung beetle that navigates uses the light from the Milky Way to navigate at night. While some would attribute that ability to evolution, God's response to Job shows us that it is because of an intelligent designer - God H...  Read More
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March 11
by Pat Damiani on March 11th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 38:1-41This week we'll be reading God's response to Job. That response consists mostly of questions that God asks Job that cause Job to reflect on the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God. They are great questions for us to consider and ponder as well....  Read More
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March 8
by Pat Damiani on March 8th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 36:1-37:24The greatest contribution Elihu makes is that he prepares Job to listen to God in the last part of the book. Job has been wanting to talk to God directly ever since chapter 9 and Elihu encourages Job to listen to the voice of God that he is about to hear. So while he has his faults, it appears that Elihu generally has things right, which is why he is not condemned al...  Read More
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March 7
by Pat Damiani on March 7th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 35:1-16Elihu goes on to explain that sometimes God uses suffering to reveal and root out sin in a righteous person. So affliction should make even a righteous person sensitive to the sin in his life and lead him to hate that sin and repent. But that still doesn’t provide Job with a satisfactory answer to his question, because, as Job is about to find out, that’s not even the r...  Read More
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March 6
by Pat Damiani on March 6th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 34:1-37The one thing we can give credit to Elihu for is that he appears to have a more complete view of God than Job's three friends. However, he also lacks the humility necessary to admit that there are still some things about how God operates that are a mystery....  Read More
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March 5
by Pat Damiani on March 5th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 33:1-33According to Elihu, God intervenes in the life of man in two ways – through dreams and visions, and through suffering. And in both, God’s purpose is to save, not to punish. Elihu does not picture God as an angry judge, but rather as a merciful Savior. This is particularly evident in verses 14-18 in this chapter....  Read More
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March 4
by Pat Damiani on March 4th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 32:1-22In chapter 32, a young man named Elihu, whose name means “He is my God”, appears on the scene. Because he is younger than the others, he has been listening to this entire conversation, waiting to speak until the others are finished. His discourse continues all the way through the end of chapter 37 without even one interruption by Job.Elihu does say some of the same thin...  Read More
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March 1
by Pat Damiani on March 1st, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 25:1-31:40Here we read Job's "final defense". Here we see Job's heart and we can understand why God allowed Satan to test him. But we also see that Job still doesn't understand what is going on behind the scenes. That certainly is the case in our lives isn't it? So how do we respond when we don't fully understand what God is doing?...  Read More
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February 29
by Pat Damiani on February 29th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 18:1-24:25Today I want to encourage you to focus on Job 19:25-27. What does that reveal about Job's understanding of eternal life? How does that line up with what we know from the rest of the Bible?...  Read More
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February 28
by Pat Damiani on February 28th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 13:1-17:16Throughout this discourse the theology of Job's "friends" is often correct and in other places it is very close to being right. But in spite of that, they aren't really good friends to Job in his time of need. What can we learn from that about how to minister to others in need today?...  Read More
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February 27
by Pat Damiani on February 27th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job 8:1-12:25Try not to get too caught up in al the details as you read today. Instead try to get an overall feel for the conversation that takes place. Think about what mistaken ideas Job and his friends have about God. Think about how we embrace similar ideas today and what we can do to avoid developing false ideas about who God is....  Read More
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February 26
by Pat Damiani on February 26th, 2024
Today's Reading: Job2:11-7:21This week is going to be a bit of a challenge, but I am confident that you're up to it! We're going to be reading several - OK - maybe more than several - chapters each day so that we can cover the entire middle section of the book.In this section Job is carrying on a conversation with his three so called "friends". We're going to see that those friends often are quite...  Read More
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