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https://allsoulsaremine.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/elusive-elihu-and-job-greatest-message-in-the-bible-part-1/ My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at anytime! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/30/2019     Day 119 Job 32:1 – 37:24 Reflection | Today Elihu - Job’s younger friend - speaks - friends are bad; Job is too self righteous - shift in that Elihu holds to the traditions but also Is willing to open the door to questioning, or rejection, of tradition. (Collins, Introduction …, the NRSV Daily Bible) Background Background by Center of Biblical Studies. Background by Chabad.org | +++ Meditation/Contemplate: How do you understand God in good and bad times? How do we study about God without losing the faith we have in God? Prayer: God, you speak to me in silence, in your creation, but mostly through Your Word and Spirit. Make me a patient, humble, and loving listener to you and others.  Amen.

Job is rebuked by his friends  by Butts https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-book-of-job/ My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at any time! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/29/2019     Day 118 Job 22:1 – 31:40 Reflection | Today Chapter 22 -  Eliphaz - Job is wicked. Chapter 23 - Job cries and mourns how he is inaccessible to God. Chapter 24 - Job cries to God about the wickedness and violence. Chapter 25 - Bildad - How can a mortal be righteous before God? Chapter 26 - Job - God is majestic in all things - Holy, Holy, Holy Chapter 27 - Job - I do not speak falsehood - I am innocent. Chapter 28 - Job? - independent poem Chapter 29 - Job - Concludes his defense of innocence. Chapter 30 - Job - Continues in his plea. Chapter 31 - Job - I have made a covenant! (NOAB 5 - notes; the NRSV Daily Bible) Background Background by Center of Biblical Studies. Background by Chabad.org | +

I have been blessed to hear one of the best sermons on the Resurrection that I have heard. Worth your listen - click on picture. Resurrection is a messy process. April 21, 2019: Easter Sunday Sermon by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde (11AM) at the Washington National Cathedral. 

Job is rebuked by his friends  by Butts https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-book-of-job/ My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at any time! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/27/2019     Day 117 Job 15:1 – 21:34 Reflection | Today Chapter 15 - Eliphaz tries again - Job even though moral and upstanding still is not perfect in comparison to God; Job should the suffering in a moral stance. Don’t be against God. Chapter 16 - Job reaffirms his innocence. Chapter 17 - Job prays for relief from his suffering. Chapter 18 - Bildad outlines the fate of the wicked Chapter 19 - Job chastises his friends and their wicked words; He complains to God concerning his suffering. Chapter 20 - Zophar - Job you must change for you are wicked: and the wicked is doomed. Chapter 21 -  Job says the wicked DO prosper and he can’t figure out why. (NOAB 5 - notes; the NRSV Daily Bible) Background Background by Cent

See Day 115 My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at anytime! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/25/2019     Day 116 Job 6:1 - 14:22 Reflection | Today Chapter 6 - Why is Job suffering? Job gets mad at friends but vows to hear them and be silent. Give me honest words. What did I do to make this happen? Causality not s*** happens, Chapter 7 - Job is complaining about his suffering. Why is God oppressing me? I loathe my life. Chapter 8 - Bildad - Job should repent. God is just. Chapter 9 - Where is the mediator between me and God? How can I get justice? Chapter 10 - I loathe my life!!!!! God help me!!! Chapter 11 - Zophar - Job deserves punishment! Chapter 12 - I am not inferior to you. I am a laughingstock to you. With God there is wisdom and worship and gives justice. Chapter 13 - I hear you but you are not listening to me! Prayer - God - withdraw your judgement and call to me and I will answer. C