Job comes to a close with a final few words from God to Job, followed by a contrite response from Job to God and then the concluding chapter where Job is defended by God to Job’s three friends and then the epilogue where Job is […]
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Imago Scriptura 72 – Job 38-40 -Storm
It didn’t take long on our return to South Dakota for us to see one of the sights that has always inspired a sense of awe and wonder for me – the big sky of the upper midwest and the storm clouds that churn and […]
Imago Scriptura 71 – Job 25-27 – Marks
Sometimes you just know when things have been done right. There are obvious signs that you have done it right. There is something external that reflects that truth. The picture for today is one of those. I tried smoking a pork loin for dinner tonight […]
Imago Scriptura 70 – Job 22-24 – Bones
Coming to the end of the first section of Job – the dialogue between him and his friends before a 4th voice comes in, Elihu. It very much feels by this point that Job is worn down. His language is more raw and feels much […]
Imago Scriptura 69 – Job 19:25-27 – Glimpses
In the midst of the dialogues between Job and his friends and in the midst of the “piling on” that I wrote about, we come to probably the most well known of the passages in Job. After all, it forms a significant part of Handel’s […]
Imago Scriptura 68 – Job 14-21 – Piling On
The last several chapters of Job feel like the same thing over and over. Job’s friends go after him – getting more and more vocal about their belief that Job caused the calamities that have come upon him. Then Job responds with his frustration with […]
Imago Scriptura 67 – Job 11-13 – Power
When I think about the power of God, I remember a conversation with a friend of mine who is a builder by trade. He and I were working on a Habitat for Humanity house when he talked of how he thought of the power of […]
Imago Scriptura 66 – Job 8-10 – Real
From my early years of my faith, I don’t remember hearing / feeling / experiencing that it would be “ok” to talk to God the way that Job does here in this section of the book. As he is in his 2nd lengthy message, he […]
Imago Scriptura 65 – Job 5-7 – Trying
My sister and I spent the day at Stanford today including seeing the Rodin sculptures on campus. Not surprisingly I took more than a few shots of the places we visited. This sculpture (one of the Burghers of Calais) was really striking – but one […]
Imago Scriptura 64 – Job 3-4 – Spiraling
While at my uncle’s memorial service today, I was outside looking at a pair of redwoods that were growing up next to each other just outside of the building we were in. They are nowhere near the size of the “big” redwoods north of San […]
Imago Scriptura 63 – Job 1-2
So, as I have moved into the book of Job, I am going to spend the next few weeks going through this challenging, poetic, and beautiful book. Its not going to be as much about trying to explain it away but more just my visceral […]
