Job 9-10: If Only There Were Someone

Job 12-14: Shall We Live Again?

🎧 Job 12–14 | Shall We Live Again? Job opens with sarcasm. He knows everything the friends know. More, actually. And then chapter 14 arrives — and with it, the question underneath all the questions. "If someone dies, will they live again?" Job can't answer it. Not yet. He reaches toward hope and pulls back. But the question is out there now. It will take fourteen more chapters for the answer to come — and when it does, it won't be a principle. It'll be a person. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #Resurrection #Suffering #Hope #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 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.