Proverbs 1:1-9: True North

Proverbs 1:1-9: True North

Proverbs looks like a book of fridge-magnet advice — work hard, watch your mouth, save your money.But there's a phrase in verse 3 that gives the game away. "Right and just and fair" isn't self-help vocabulary. It's government vocabulary — the language of Deuteronomy 17's rules for kings. This is a training manual for a throne, written by a king for his son. Over the next 33 days we'll trace how that changes everything — including why the book ends up pointing at Jesus. Today, tool one of eight: read the front door. The opening verses of any Bible book are never accidental. #Proverbs #Bible #BibleReading #Wisdom #FearOfTheLord #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/If you're local to Hemel Hempstead, you're very welcome to join us on Sundays at 10:30am and 6pm.

Job 42: Now My Eyes Have Seen You

🎧 Job 42 | Now My Eyes Have Seen You The end. Hold everything. The chinnam question from chapter 1. The Redeemer declaration from chapter 19. The friends' failure. The whirlwind. And now — resolution. "My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you." God never explains why. Not one sentence. But Job is transformed — not by information, but by encounter. The accused becomes the intercessor. The friends are rebuked. The children aren't doubled — because the first ten aren't lost. And chinnam is proved: Job worshipped for nothing but God. My Redeemer lives. That's been the whole book. And now — face to face. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #MyRedeemerLives #Redemption #Restoration #Chinnam #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 40:6–41:34: Leviathan

🎧 Job 40–41 | Leviathan God's second speech. And this time, he reveals the real enemy. Behemoth. Leviathan. Not animals — chaos, death, evil. The serpent power behind the suffering. Thirty-four verses describing Leviathan — the longest creature description in the Bible. And God's tone? Not anxious. Not dread. Detailed, almost admiring confidence. "I will not fail to speak of Leviathan's limbs, its strength and its graceful form." You cannot defeat Leviathan. You can't pull chaos out with a fishhook. But God can. And in Christ — he already has. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #Leviathan #Behemoth #Chaos #Suffering #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 38:1-40:5: Where Were You?

🎧 Job 38:1–40:5 | Where Were You? God speaks. After 37 chapters of silence — through lament, accusation, fabrication, failed comfort — God speaks. From the storm. And he doesn't explain. He asks questions. Over seventy of them. "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?" "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades?" "Does the eagle soar at your command?" This IS the answer. Not information — presence. Not explanation — encounter. The God who manages the cosmos can be trusted with your suffering. Don't try to answer the questions. Let them wash over you. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #GodSpeaks #Whirlwind #Suffering #Isaiah #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 36–37: The Storm Is Coming

🎧 Job 36–37 | The Storm Is Coming Elihu starts where he always does. And then the weather changes. "Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice." "God comes in awesome majesty." "Out of the north he comes in golden splendour." He thinks he's illustrating a theological point. He doesn't know he's announcing an arrival. The storm he describes in chapter 37 is the very storm God will speak from in chapter 38. Elihu is the herald who doesn't know what he's heralding. Twenty-five days of human words. Tomorrow — God. The storm is not the enemy. The storm is the chariot. #Job #Bible #BibleReading #Elihu #Whirlwind #GodSpeaks #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.