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Job 11: God Exacts Less

🎧 Job 11 | God Exacts Less "God exacts less than your guilt deserves." To a man who has lost his children, his wealth, and his health. Who is scraping his sores in the ashes. Zophar tells him: you're getting off lightly. This is what happens when a theological system becomes more important than the person in front of you. Friend number three. The first cycle ends. Three friends. Three failures. And Job no closer to understanding. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #Theology #DailyBibleReading Daily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/ [https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/] If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.

Job 9-10: If Only There Were Someone

🎧 Job 9–10 | If Only There Were Someone "If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together." One sentence. Job 9:33. And it changes everything that follows. Job acknowledges God's power — "he alone stretches out the heavens" — and that's precisely the problem. He can't get a fair hearing from a God this great. He needs a go-between. An arbiter. Someone to lay a hand on both sides. He doesn't have one. Not yet. But the longing has begun — and it will grow. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #Mediator #Jesus #DailyBibleReading Daily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/ [https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/] If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.

Job 8: Does God Pervert Justice?

🎧 Job 8 | Does God Pervert Justice? Bildad's question is a good one. "Does God pervert justice?" And his answer is correct: no. God does not. Valid logic. Fatal premise. Because in the very next sentence, he tells a grieving father that his dead children got what they deserved. Right theology, wrong address. One sentence. That's how fast it can go. Today we meet the second friend — and learn the difference between speaking about God and speaking to God. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #Theology #DailyBibleReading Daily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/ [https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/] If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.

Job 6-7: Wadi Friends

🎧 Job 6–7 | Wadi Friends A wadi is a desert riverbed. In winter: full, flowing, life-giving. In summer, when you stagger to it dying of thirst — bone dry. Gone. Job calls his friends wadis. And then he does something extraordinary with Psalm 8. "What is mankind that you are mindful of them?" — a psalm of wonder — becomes a complaint about surveillance. Same words. Opposite meaning. This is what suffering does to familiar texts. And what Job does with his disappointment — he takes it straight to God. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #Psalms #Suffering #Lament #DailyBibleReading Daily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/ [https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/] If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.

Job 4-5: The First Comforter

🎧 Job 4–5 | The First Comforter Eliphaz means well. He sounds right. He might even be right — in most situations. But Job isn't most situations. "Who, being innocent, has ever perished?" It's the question that sounds like comfort and lands like a verdict. Today we meet the first friend — and start to see how good theology, badly applied, can be more devastating than cruelty. Here's the test: does your theology of suffering work for Job chapter 1? #Job #Bible #BibleReading #Suffering #Theology #DailyBibleReading Daily Bible Reading is a chapter-by-chapter Bible reading podcast from Christ Church Hemel, helping you read through the Bible one chapter at a time. Follow the full reading plan here: https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/ [https://www.christchurchhemel.org.uk/resources/daily-bible-reading/] If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.