In part 2 of 3 in Job, we look how Job and his friends respond to his suffering. How should we respond to suffering? When we suffer. When friends suffer. What does it mean to be faithful and to speak well in the midst of suffering?
A new work of God in San Diego's East Village
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Sermons on Discipleship
We look at the dark accusation that the satan makes against Job and God, suggesting that Job does not actually love God, but is righteous out of self-interest. This accusation is against Job in particular, but it is really against all of God’s faithful. What does it mean to love? What does it mean to…
We look at our third passage in three weeks from Proverbs, finding an ode to wisdom, encouragement to make a covenant commitment to wisdom, and a call to listen to the wisdom of the Spirit.
Wisdom cries out to us in the streets, trying to teach us her ways, and time and again, we ignore the cries. We look at wisdom, how we can hear her cries, and are reminded that the wisdom of the Spirit has a different voice than the wisdom of the world.
We jump into the Proverbs, looking at what we are called to prioritize if we are to be wise and faithful people.
We look at this particular portion of Song of Songs but take the opportunity to discuss the book more widely. This erotic poem that is part of our holy canon invites us into an image of love unbounded, and we see that it is helpful in numerous ways for us to wander into this image…
In this sermon, we look at the wisdom of Solomon and discuss wisdom in general. What does it mean to be wise? And can a wise person still be unfaithful, ultimately? We find that we are called in the wisdom literature to come under the discipline of Jesus.
We follow the Ark of the Covenant on its journey into Jerusalem and find that the God who dwells in the Ark is not a passive box being carried, but running the show. We are called to be humbled before God, to find our way into the will of God and not expect God to…
In today’s passage, David is anointed by the people as the king over all of the tribes of Israel, and he conquers Zion, establishing it as the City of David, Jerusalem. We highlight this momentous moment in Israel’s history, but we find that it is subverted by the text of 1 and 2 Samuel. We…
David and Goliath! The original. We see that what matters is whether the Lord is with you (not strength or odds or any other factors), and we find that our lives are to be shaped by the calling of God (and not any other factors).