Know your place
And so we return to Job. To another troubled outpouring. Job chapters 9-11 are Job’s language of pain followed by his friend Zophar’s response. Job: I know, my friend. I know all you’re saying is...
Author: Helen Redfern
What have I done to deserve this?
Yesterday we witnessed Job in a very dark place. Devoid of hope. Overflowing with questions. What I have done to deserve this? Why are you laying all this at my door? Are you doing...
Just hold on
It’s Job’s turn again. Turn to find the words to express his anguish. Again my paraphrase. This time of chapters 6 to 8 of the book of Job. Job: If only you knew. If only...
Learning from the best
Let me tell you about learning to dance. I’d always been told that I couldn’t dance. That I would never be able to learn to dance. Actually, that’s not true, when I was about...
A language for pain
Job has had it tough. Really tough. He’s lost his children and all of his livestock. He’s covered in a horrific skin disease. And no, he hasn’t turned his back on God or blamed...
God of the good days and the bad days
Yesterday, we saw how Job lost all his animals and all his children and yet still managed not to blame God and to give him praise – “Naked I came from my mother’s womb,...
God gives, God takes.
First day of the month, first chapter of a new book. The book of Job. Which is actually a very old book. Possibly the oldest book in this whole library that we call the...
In Conclusion……
The final chapter of the Book of Esther is very short – more of a Conclusion or an Epilogue than a full chapter. It wraps things up. King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the empire,...
Purim then and now
Because of all that has happened in the Book of Esther, the festival of Purim is established so that future generations can remember and celebrate God’s deliverance of the Jewish people from the evil...
The tables are turned!
How quickly things have changed! It’s all completely different in Esther chapter 8. The tables have turned. The king now knows that Esther is a Jew – and is OK with that. More than...
