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Chanda Mulenga
The book of Job: honest questions about suffering and trusting God when answers don't come.
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I Know My Redeemer Lives
Job says it in the middle of the ruin, before any speech of God, before any explanation, before anything is restored. He has lost the hearing, the family, the health, the reputation. What remains is a
The Courtroom Behind the Storm
The book of Job opens with a scene almost no one expects and almost everyone misses on a first read. Before any ruin, before the three friends, before the whirlwind, there is a courtroom. God and the
God's Answer That Isn't One: Job 38 and the Whirlwind
After thirty-seven chapters of demanding an explanation, Job finally gets a response from God. And it isn't one. "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind" (Job 38:1 English - ESV), and the
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? The Quiet Poem of Job 28
Between the friends' last speech and Job's final defense, the book of Job stops arguing. Chapter 28 is a poem about mining Job 28:1-2 English - ESV, and it may be the quiet center of the whole boo
Seven Days of Silence: What Job's Friends Got Right
Before Job's friends became a byword for bad comfort, they did one thing magnificently. They showed up, tore their robes, wept, and then sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no