It’s Day 19 of our nationwide lockdown. I’m grateful Jesus was not locked down! Job, in her suffering, has just explored the hope of legal justice from God (chapter 9) – but without hope, turns back to lament. Previously: 1:1-5 | 1:6-12 | 1:13-22 | 2:1-6 | 2:7-13 | 3:1-10 | 3:11-26 | 4:1-21 | …
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Lockdown thoughts from Job 9
Day 17 of our lockdown (I think; starting to lose count!) Previously: 1:1-5 | 1:6-12 | 1:13-22 | 2:1-6 | 2:7-13 | 3:1-10 | 3:11-26 | 4:1-21 | 5:1-7 | 5:8-27 | 6:1-30 | 7:1-21 | 8:1-7 | 8:8-22 Translation: 1 And Job answered, saying: 2 “Surely I know that it is so. But how …
Five laments your church could sing this week
“What can miserable Christians sing?” A couple of years ago, pastor and church historian Carl Trueman posed this question in an article. He was reflecting on contemporary worship music and its limited ability to lament. Cries of pain are largely absent from our gathered worship vocabulary, and so in the wake of a terror attack, …
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Auckland Epilogue
Our home as children Grass is greener on this side The gospel moves us Haste thee on from grace to glory, Armed by faith, and winged by prayer. Heaven ’s eternal days before thee, God ’s own hand shall guide us there. Soon shall close thy earthly mission, Soon shall pass thy pilgrim …
Traditions and what we treasure
Christmas is an important time of year. As sinful and forgetful people, we often need the reminder of Christ’s incarnation amidst the sadness and brokenness in our own lives and the world we live in. But the first year we were married, we sat in our hot, humid apartment unit, not quite knowing how to …