There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This opening line from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens could easily be the opening line from…

Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will…

      The man declares, I am weary, O God;        I am weary, O God, and worn out.              2       Surely I am too stupid to be a man.        I have not the understanding of a man.              3       I have not learned wisdom,        nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.  This is another one of those…

Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain. There…

Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery— 5 to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. We all know people who watch…

In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD—this same King Ahaz. 23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and…