Title: Miserable Comforters
Theme: "The misery that critics heap upon you in the midst of crisis"
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Job 16: 1 - 5
I - The Affliction That Job Encountered (1)
II - The Advice That Job Endured (2 - 3)
III - The Attitude That Job Excluded (4)
IV - The Avenue That Job Endorsed (5)
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Crisis, Confusion, & Critics
My job this morning is to represent Job's friends and explore what made them miserable comforters.
But before I get into them, I'll say this. When I preached two weeks ago, I covered nearly all of chapter 1 and 2, which were very full chapters. I even preached an extra 10 minutes longer than usual, and I still felt like all I was able to do was observe what was going on in the passage, let alone do much by way of illustration and application. At the end of the sermon, I mentioned how I hoped to have time for more of this later. And we do. So, I'll begin with a story.
Several years ago, I got a short phone call from my wife. This was before we lived here in Harrisburg. We lived in Tucson, AZ at the time. On the call, Brooke really only asked one question. After our greeting, she asked if I saw that our house was listed online? I said that I hadn't. I hung up the phone after the call, walked outside and confirmed a few details, and then made a phone call to the realtor.
It's sort of a cliché when we talk about being so unsettled that you feel like you are going to be sick, to throw up, but that's how I felt. We had been trying to sell our home for two years, a home we didn't even live in anymore. When a contract on the home looked like it was going to materialize, we moved to Tucson, so I could work in a church. But then the contract didn't materialize.
And I asked a friend to live in my house for only $200 a month if he'd just mow the yard, which was 1/7 of the cost to own the house. And 18 months later, he was still living there.
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Theme: "The misery that critics heap upon you in the midst of crisis"
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Job 16: 1 - 5
I - The Affliction That Job Encountered (1)
II - The Advice That Job Endured (2 - 3)
III - The Attitude That Job Excluded (4)
IV - The Avenue That Job Endorsed (5)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Crisis, Confusion, & Critics
My job this morning is to represent Job's friends and explore what made them miserable comforters.
But before I get into them, I'll say this. When I preached two weeks ago, I covered nearly all of chapter 1 and 2, which were very full chapters. I even preached an extra 10 minutes longer than usual, and I still felt like all I was able to do was observe what was going on in the passage, let alone do much by way of illustration and application. At the end of the sermon, I mentioned how I hoped to have time for more of this later. And we do. So, I'll begin with a story.
Several years ago, I got a short phone call from my wife. This was before we lived here in Harrisburg. We lived in Tucson, AZ at the time. On the call, Brooke really only asked one question. After our greeting, she asked if I saw that our house was listed online? I said that I hadn't. I hung up the phone after the call, walked outside and confirmed a few details, and then made a phone call to the realtor.
It's sort of a cliché when we talk about being so unsettled that you feel like you are going to be sick, to throw up, but that's how I felt. We had been trying to sell our home for two years, a home we didn't even live in anymore. When a contract on the home looked like it was going to materialize, we moved to Tucson, so I could work in a church. But then the contract didn't materialize.
And I asked a friend to live in my house for only $200 a month if he'd just mow the yard, which was 1/7 of the cost to own the house. And 18 months later, he was still living there.
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