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Job 38

Proper 24B

Comments and Observations: Why did this happen?  Why didn’t God prevent this?  Or, very often it’s “Pastor, why did this happen?  Pastor, where is God?” A child dies, a good person is killed, a freak accident takes the life of someone who was unspeakably precious to us, and we are left to wonder why. And…

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Job 23:1-9; 16-17

Proper 23B

Comments and Observations: If you read the John Grisham novel The Firm, you may recall the horrifying moment when a young lawyer and his wife discover that the house so “generously” provided to them by the young man’s law firm is bugged to the hilt.  Every conversation they had had, every lovemaking sigh, every TV…

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Job 1:1, 2:1-10

Proper 22B

Comments and Observations: Lately I have been doing some reading of books that try to teach people how to become better writers.  Specifically these are books to help aspiring novelists hone the necessary skills that might one day help them to garner that much-coveted acceptance letter from a publisher.  One essay that I read recently…

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