Monthly Archives: July 2010

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Jump Start # 140

Jump Start # 140  Ecclesiastes 9:4 “For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.”   This is a great passage! It catches our attention and we can understand it. Solomon talks about death throughout Ecclesiastes. Death is part of life. Death happens. […]

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Jump Start # 139

Jump Start # 139  Ecclesiastes 2:9-10 “That which has been is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, “See this, it is new”? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.”    This week we turn our attention to […]

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Jump Start # 138

Jump Start # 138 Job 42:3 “Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”    This declaration from Job comes after God speaks to him. For thirty-four chapters, Job and his friends argue about the […]

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Jump Start # 137

Jump Start # 137  Job 16:1-2 “Then Job answered, ‘I have heard many such things; ‘sorry comforters are you all.”   The majority of the book of Job is lengthy discussions and debates between Job and his three friends. They all offer reasons why a righteous man like Job is suffering. They have similar theories. […]

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Jump Start # 136

Jump Start # 136 Job 2:9 “Then his wife said t him, ‘Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”   Job’s wife cracked under pressure. She collapsed and caved in. Satan got to her and she threw in the towel. Job’s suffering intensives in the second chapter. God allows Satan to […]