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Sitting Shiva – Greg Albrecht

“Don’t panic. I’m with you. There’s no need to fear for I’m your God. I’ll give you strength. I’ll help you. I’ll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you” (Isaiah 41:10 – The Message) The book of Job begins with an unimaginable tragedy experienced by a man who “feared God and shunned evil” (Job 1:1). Identified as “the greatest man among all the people of the East” (Job 1:1) Job experienced a financial disaster when he lost 500 oxen, 500 donkeys, 3,000 camels and 7,000 sheep, and the deaths of the many servants (laborers) who tended them.  In the wake of this financial catastrophe, a hurricane-like “mig...

“Misery Loves Company” Brad Jersak

How does Christ’s suffering with us deliver us from suffering if we’re still suffering?