Category: The journey

The next three chapters – Job 29 to 31 – are entitled Job’s final discourse. This is his summing up, his conclusion, his way of stating his case in its entirety. So let’s have a...

Chapter 22. Eliphaz again. I wonder how many of you are still with me. Eliphaz: Do you think any of us can actually add anything to God? He doesn’t need us to make Him look...

Job 18 sees us back with Bildad, Job’s friend. One of Job’s comforters. Bildad: Oh for goodness sake, Job, you’re being ridiculous. When are you going to stop talking such rubbish? Be sensible, and then we...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

Esther 6 is pure gold. A wonderfully engaging story with such a clever twist that made me chuckle. Truly comical and yet with murderous thoughts at its core. Worthy of a sitcom or a...