In the final session of Out of the Storm, Jago looks at how the book of Job wraps up as God speaks “Out of the Storm”. He speaks on the problem of evil, the power of evil, God’s prevailing over evil and our perseverance through evil. In times of storms and suffering, like Job, we can know that we are humbled, accepted and blessed.
Read MoreIn session 4, we look at Job 28 and Jago helps us grasp what true wisdom looks like when it comes to responding to storms and times of suffering.
Read MoreIn this third session, Jago unpacks the idea that suffering is a peculiarly Christian problem. First, suffering reveals what your relationship with God is like, and second, suffering challenges what the character of God is like. We see, in the midst of Job’s confusion with his suffering, a faith that His redeemer lives, and how the resurrection changes everything for us.
Read MoreIn this second session looking at the book of Job, Jago helps us see what is going on behind the “Why?” question of suffering. It is not wrong for the Christian to feel hopeless in times of suffering, and yet even in times of utter despair there is hope in God.
Read MoreJago introduces Job in the first of our Connect Group series ‘Out of the Storm’. Our understandable longing and cry to God might be 'God – get me out of the storm!’ But in this famous and complex Old Testament book of Job (which is all about suffering) it is 'out of the storm' that God speaks to Job.
Read MoreAmidst the battles of this season, and with it being Mental Health Awareness Week, Jamie looks at what we can learn from the biblical experience of lament. We worship the Man of Sorrows, who meets us in our pain and we meet him in his. So rather than suppressing pain, instead we offer it to God. The Man of Sorrows is also the resurrected Jesus, and with him the worst thing is never the final thing. We as the church can be a place of solidarity and transformation as we find the blessing in the middle of the battle.
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