This morning we end our series on Ruth, Esther, and Job, with a few questions we sometimes ask about suffering. Is God punishing me? Why does God allow a world of suffering at all? These are difficult questions, and we don’t always have all the answers, but let’s look at the Bible and explore these questions together…
With so much going wrong in his life, how did Job find any hope to keep going? How do we find it today? Let’s explore some God-centered, biblical anchors that keep us going in times of suffering…
As you study the Book of Job, several topics come up, including the question, “How do you help those who are hurting?” Job’s friends came to help him, and it didn’t exactly go well. We want to do better. After all, we serve the “God of all comfort” (2 Cor. 1:3), so we want to share His comfort with others. Using Job and his friends as a case-study of sorts, what do we learn about helping those who are hurting?
The Book of Job gives us a “peak behind the curtain” on Satan and temptation. Is Satan real? How powerful is he? What does he do in our lives today? Let’s explore these and other biblical questions, using Job as our starting point…
The Book of Job brings us face to face with some of life’s most difficult questions: questions about God, suffering, and faith. What answers did Job find? Let’s see what Job experienced, and then reflect on what the “big message” of the book has to say about God in our lives today…
It’s much easier to trust in God when things are going great. But what about when we are in the midst of extremely difficult situation? Tonight, Aarek points us to some biblical examples of a mindset that can take us from stress and fear to peace and hope…
As we begin a series on the unseen spiritual world, we explore what the Bible says about Satan. What is he doing? Should we be afraid of him? The outline handed out with this lesson: