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Job 15-17
“Job, you’re a pompous windbag.” So begins Eliphaz’s second lecture to the broken man. I’m not going to dwell on chapter 15. It appears to me that Eliphaz is turning Job’s own words against him. Job has insisted on his innocence and Eliphaz basically says, “Aha! See? Only a proud and sinful man would claim…
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Job 12-14
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!”Job 12:2 BSB Look at Job gettin’ all sassy. 😆 He starts off his speech by finding a bit of common ground with his friends frenemies. Job acknowledges, “my disaster has come from the hand of the Lord” 12:9. I can see E, B,…
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Job 9-11
If you’re old enough to remember the show Hee-Haw, you undoubtedly recall the regular segment where the guest star and many of the regulars like Roy Clark and Grandpa Jones would sing “Gloom, despair, and agony on me…” Job 9 is the third verse of this song. Verses 4-10 contain Job’s acknowledgment of YHWH as…
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Job 6-8
Not gonna lie- this section is rather depressing. Job has moved from “I wish I was never born,” to “I wish God would just kill me and get it over with.” If it wasn’t for the fact that the man has lost everything: his children, his wealth, the respect of his wife, and even kindness…
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Job 3-5
Let’s recap… Job’s friends have been sitting with him for a week. Seven days. And no one talks. What would you say to Job? There isn’t really anything you can say to someone who has lost all his children. But- after a week, it turns out that Job’s friends have plenty to say. And it…
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Job 1-2
Surprise! We hopped out of Genesis and into Job. (Which I really wish was spelled Jobe (with an E) instead of looking like the thing you do from 9 to 5.) The reason for said hop is because 1) this 2-year Bible reading plan is chronological and 2) the man Job(e) seems to have lived…
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Genesis 9-11
The flood waters have receded and Noah’s family is still standing around the altar as we pick back up where chapter 8 stopped. (Those pesky chapter breaks! If you want to be a better student of scripture, ignore them. Read the whole context until the narrative itself suggests a stopping spot.) Something I hadn’t paid…
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Genesis 7-8
You and I, we have Noah to thank for being here. He’s our g-r-e-a-t…Grandpa. I don’t think we generally think of Noah as a prophet, but what else do you call men to whom God reveals things before they happen? I have to give credit where credit is due.., Veggie Tales helped me to notice…
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Genesis 5-6
I’ve heard the late Dr. Chuck Missler go through the meanings of the names of the 10 pre-flood patriarchs in Genesis 5. In his lecture he shows how the meanings of their names hint at the Gospel. But I’ve also read people who disagree. They say he stretched the definitions. I decided to look them…
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Genesis 3-4
In the flow of the narrative in Genesis 2 we end with a naked couple- probably doing what naked couples do. Then the man calls this fabulous creation “woman” and they are just there- “naked and unashamed.” I can’t prove what I’m about to suggest. It’s an idea. Ponder it and do with it what…
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Genesis 1-2
The creation week. In elementary school, we started writing projects with an opening statement. It was meant to summarize what we were about to unpack. “Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning…
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Whole Bible in 2 Years – Intro
Our church is reading through the Bible together over the next 2 years. I’m going to journal my thoughts (for your reading enjoyment). If you’d like a schedule to read along you can download it for free here: This is not my first trip through the Bible. Far from it. But it is the first…
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