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George Martin
May 9
May 9, 2024 - Job 25-28
A final speech, by Bildad, of the three friends. All three friends have faced a conundrum. Their arguments posit that either God or Job...
George Martin
May 8
May 8, 2024 - Job 20-24
Zophar speaks and, essentially, tells Job that he is simply getting what he deserves: “The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the...
George Martin
May 7
May 7, 2024 - Job 15-19
With these chapters, the saga of Job reaches a climax of sorts. Eliphaz, the third of the friends, speaks and accuses Job of refusing to...
George Martin
May 6
May 6, 2024 - Job 11-14
Zophar the Naamathite . . . Rather than listen to Job’s complaint, Zophar wishes for Job to just shut up: “Should a multitude of words...
George Martin
May 5
May 5, 2024 - Job 9-10
Bildad has spoken to Job with an arrogance, words that, on the surface, are so full of truth: If one seeks mercy from God, he will...
George Martin
May 4
May 4, 2024 - Job 8-10
Bildad now speaks and argues that Job is ignorant and must be instructed regarding his situation: “For inquire, please, of bygone ages,...
George Martin
May 3
May 3, 2024 - Job 5-7
Eliphaz has spoken, and he is convinced of the legitimacy of his argument, i.e., that Job has sinned greatly and, therefore, Job is...
George Martin
May 2
May 2, 2024 - Job 3-4
“After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth” (3:1). And so begins the amazing story of Job’s Q&A with his friends,...
George Martin
May 1
May 1, 2024 - Job 1-2
“There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from...
George Martin
Apr 30
April 30, 2024 - Esther 5-10
The plot was hatched by Haman to destroy the Jews but the Lord used Esther to save his people. The details of the story are here, and...
George Martin
Apr 29
April 29, 2024 - Esther 1-4
The story of Esther is familiar to us. “King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel, in the third year of his reign he...
George Martin
Apr 28
April 28, 2024 - Nehemiah 10-13
Ezra had called the people to confession of sin and obedience to God. And the people made “a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed...
George Martin
Apr 27
April 27, 2024 - Nehemiah 6-9
Success! The wall was completed even with all the opposition Nehemiah and the workers faced. The enemies of God’s people, though, just...
George Martin
Apr 26
April 26, 2024 - Nehemiah 3-5
“Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate . . . The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish...
George Martin
Apr 26
April 25, 2024 - Nehemiah 1-2 (with reflection on Ezra 10)
“While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women,...
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