Ouch! We all have bad days from time to time, but most of us won’t even come close to what Job was experiencing when he uttered those painful words. In case you’re not familiar with his story, Job was ...

Harold S. Kushner is a rare bird: a popular religious writer set apart by his humility and lack of proselytizing. This rabbi’s long list of best-selling books, including his 1981 hit “When Bad Things ...

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Chapter 32 through Chapter 35 As soon as the three friends finally stop badgering Job, a whippersnapper named Elihu arrives to replace them. A know-it-all twerp of the D. Kyle Sampson variety, Elihu ...

"Do you really want to read the entire book of Job?" my pastor asked me, horrified. I'd asked him to help me read this ancient Biblical book, to understand why it spoke to people who suffer greatly. I ...

This is a slightly adapted version of a sermon presented earlier this month at the Festival of Preaching. “Then Job answered the Lord: ‘I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours ...

The Book of Job, and the trials of Job. Hard and endless. We’ll ask what the hard old Bible story has to say now. An image from William Blake's engravings illustrating the biblical Book of Job. Job, a ...

Classed with the poetic books of the Old Testament, Job is a book of deep philosophy which deals with some of the basic problems of life. It is cast in the form of a dramatic poem. There is a prose ...

In 1863 the Confederate Army was “flushed with victory.” Throughout the summer of that year, the Union had been taking brutal losses. The cost in human lives was high. “Sometimes it looked,” Elizabeth ...

So God says to Satan, “You there, what have you been up to?” And Satan says, “Oh, you know, just hanging around, minding my own business.” And God says, “Well, take a look at my man Job over there. He ...