Job – Suffering Well
The story of Job reminds us that life can be difficult and we do not always get the answers we want when we want them.
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Central Streaming: The Mark of the Beast
Starting in Revelation 13, Dan Kane examines the Mark of the Beast, looking at Antichrist, Satan and so on.
Rev 13.mp3 (Dan Kane)
Central Streaming: Temptation
In the Gospel of Luke we look at the temptation of Christ and find out how it relates to our own experience of temptation.
Central Streaming: Lucifer
Isaiah prophesies regarding the ancient king of Babylon. In one portion of the prophecy, the church has historically seen something more.
Palmer St. Podcast: A Deepening Relationship
The greater our difficulties become, the more deeply God asks us to trust him. Deeper trust grows out of a deepening relationship with God.
Palmer St. Podcast: When God Hides
The Book of Job confronts problems that we may not want to think about:
- The Problem of Evil
- The Problem of Suffering
- The Problem of the Silence of God
Any Christian who masters the Book of Job goes a long way toward ensuring success in the Christian life.
Jonathan Edwards Calls the Devil a Blockhead
The devil is continually attacking the godly. Nonetheless, his attacks on Christians only advance them in their growth in grace. They learn to persevere through the trials with which he afflicts them. The result is that they are made “perfect and complete, lacking nothing” (James 1:4). His assault on the Redeemer only served to bring about redemption. “God holds Satan on a chain,” wrote Jonathan Edwards. “When a person is converted, he is out of Satan’s ultimate reach.” It is the absolute height of foolishness to oppose an omniscient, omnipotent being and attempt to thwart his ultimate designs. Yet that is exactly what the devil tries to do when he attacks the godly. He finds himself in direct opposition to God who will inevitably use his tactics toward their ultimate good. Edwards reflected,
Seeing the devil is so cunning and subtle, it may seem a paradox why he will endeavour to frustrate the designs of an Omniscient Being, or to pretend to controvert him that is omnipotent, … And seeing he has experience of it, for so long a time, all his deep-laid contrivances have at last come out to his own overthrow, and the work has been directly contrary to his design. To this I say, that although the devil be exceeding crafty and subtle yet he is one of the greatest fools and blockheads in the world … although he never attempted any thing against God but he was disappointed, yet he cannot bear to be quiet and refrain from exercising himself with all his might and subtlety against the increase of holiness; though, if he considered, he might know that it will turn to its advantage. Continue reading
