Calling It Right

Job 19:21-22 “Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me.  Why do you persecute me as God does?” Observation: Job’s friends had repeatedly sought to convince him that his painful circumstances were due to some failure or sin on Job’s part....

Fleshly Navigation

Acts 27:13 “When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing.” Observation: Paul was prisoner on a ship sailing for Rome under difficult circumstances. Never one to ignore an audience, Paul,...

The Paperwork Problem

Acts 25:25-27 “’I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death; and since he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him. Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before...

Unfulfilled Expectations

Job 40:4 “I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth.”  Observation: Through all of Job 38 and 39, God had been affirming His unlimited majesty and power using fascinating examples from the natural realm and the animal world. Then He...

The Kibitzing Altar

Revelation 16:7 “And I heard the altar saying, ‘Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.’” Observation: Seven angels were pouring seven bowls of wrath upon the earth, and each bowl contained terrifying, though merely temporal, judgments of...