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How Big Is Your God?
How Big Is Your God? by Chuck Swindoll Job 38:1-41 When God finally does speak, He answers Job out of a whirlwind. Suddenly, there He is! Wouldn’t it have been great for us to have been there? Whoosh! Lightning, loud thunder, mighty winds blowing dark clouds across the heavens, andRead More …
Nothing Compares
Nothing Compares by Chuck Swindoll Job 38:1-41 God is prominent and preeminent. He is majestic in His power, magnificent in His person, and marvelous in His purposes. How refreshing to step back into the shadows of our own insignificance and give full attention to the greatness of our God! It’sRead More …
Learn from Suffering
Learn from Suffering by Chuck Swindoll Job 28:1-28 There is a man in our congregation who recently underwent brain surgery. The tumor in the frontal section within his cranium was pushing his brain back and slowly eroding his memory. Each week the growth of the tumor became more pronounced andRead More …
God and God Alone
God and God Alone by Chuck Swindoll Job 28:1-28 Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God’s point of view. When we employ wisdom we are viewing life as God sees it. That’s why it’s so valuable to think God’s thoughts. YouRead More …
True Convictions
True Convictions by Chuck Swindoll Job 27:1-23 Reflecting on past blessings gives us reasons to rejoice. Let me urge you who are parents still rearing young children to teach them how to do this by practicing it often. Suppertime is a great opportunity to reflect. It’s an ideal time toRead More …
Biblically Correct
Biblically Correct by Chuck Swindoll Job 27:1-23 Isn’t that closing comment a great line? The wicked man may have more clothes in his closet, but he’ll wind up leaving them to us. Remember the materialistic line that is framed around license plates? “He who dies with the most toys wins.”Read More …
Things That Matter
Things That Matter by Chuck Swindoll Job 27:1-23 Thinking God’s thoughts is our highest goal. That’s one of the reasons I’m such a proponent of the discipline of Scripture memorization. You cannot think God’s thoughts more acutely than when you quote God’s very words back to life’s situations. What comesRead More …
Who Can Understand?
Who Can Understand? by Chuck Swindoll Job 26:1-14 What a thrilling thought! “Bildad, as magnificent as all of these things are, what I’ve mentioned represents only the fringes of His ways.” Isn’t “fringes” a great word? The fringes, the outer edges of His ways; only the quiet whispers of HisRead More …
No Surprise
No Surprise by Chuck Swindoll Job 26:1-14 What Job lacked here in tact, he made up for in total honesty. Frankly, this was no time for tact. Bildad has been brutal. It’s doubtful he would even hear if Job had been soft and diplomatic. Job gets tough! Sores will doRead More …
Accepting God’s Plan
Accepting God’s Plan by Chuck Swindoll Job 24:1-25 David, in Psalm 139, makes the appropriate comment, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is too high, I cannot attain to it” (v. 6). If David lived today, he would write, “This blows my mind.” The vastness of God’s inscrutabilityRead More …
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