Psalms 108-109

Job 9-10

🎧 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

🎧 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

🎧 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

🎧 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.

Job 2:11-3:26

🎧 Job 2–3 | The Day I Was Born Seven days of silence. The best thing Job's friends ever did. Then Job speaks. And what comes out is not what you expect. He doesn't curse God. He curses the day he was born. This is chapter 3 — the bleakest chapter in one of the Bible's most honest books. And the Bible insists there's a difference between lament and blasphemy. Job shows us exactly where that line is. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #Lament #Suffering #Psalms #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.