If Job 18 was Bildad’s description of the hell Job will one day experience, than we can easily say Job 20 is Zophar’s description of the hell Job will one day experience. While Bildad spoke of Job’s existence in hell saying it would be like a downward spiral into terror, filled with increasing terror, plunging…… Continue reading Evening = Job 20, The ‘Job-Devouring’ God

As political campaigns have come and gone throughout the years there have been many promises made and few promises kept. Some of them have been made out of good will and upright intentions while others, no doubt, have been made out of complete absurdity. For example Ferdinand Lop, who ran for the French presidency in … Continue reading Morning = Psalm 101, Longing for Holiness

Welcome to our new weekly podcast. Every week Andrew & Adam will be chatting about a wide variety of topics and issues in life and the church. This week's episode features a question from a SonRise church member in regards to the use of scripture without context, such as in the case of John 3:16,…… Continue reading A2 Episode 1: Ask Adam, “Can a wholesale use of Scripture without context cause more harm than good?”

This week one our our pastoral apprentices, Sam Knox, brought us the Word of God from the book of Job. I hope you will be encouraged and edified as you listen to this next chapter in the book of Job.

This past week most of the major denominations in our country had their yearly meetings or assemblies where they gathered together to be encouraged and vote on certain matters. In talking about some of these meetings this past week I was reminded that most denominations have certain acquired reputations over the years. Think of the … Continue reading Morning = 1 Peter 1:13-16, His Holy People

Most of us, at one time or another, have read the entirety of or at least certain parts of the most famous sermon ever preached on American soil. Of course you probably know that I’m referring to Jonathan Edward’s sermon ‘Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God.’ The most often quoted paragraph in that…… Continue reading Evening = Job 18, Sinners In the Hands of Bildad’s god

In chapter 42, of Herman Melville’s great American novel Moby Dick, Ishmael reflects on the whiteness of the whale. He makes a lengthy argument that ‘whiteness’ is normally characteristic of beauty and purity, like in a pearl or the whiteness of untouched snow. Yet, when it came to Moby Dick, that great albino whale, it…… Continue reading Morning = Isaiah 6:1-7, Our Holy God

This week, our newest staff member; Andrew Jaenichen filled the pulpit and brought the Word to us while continuing our study through the book of Job.  In this text we saw Job reply to his friend Eliphaz's attack on his character and his relationship with God, as such Job refuted the charges against him and…… Continue reading Evening: Job 16-17; Firm through Suffering

“Church leadership is a peculiar thing. It often attracts those with mixed and sometimes downright sinful motives. The seeming prestige of leadership attracts some. The lure of power attracts others…Some, I think, like the idea of having access to the secrets of others and access to the mysterious inner workings of the church.”[1]These are all…… Continue reading Morning = 1 Timothy 3:1-7, The Elder

Having worked through the first cycle of speeches in Job 4-14 we now move to the second cycle of speeches in Job 15-21. It was the older, patient, and friendly Eliphaz who began cycle 1 in chapters 4-5, it is now the angry, impatient, and offended Eliphaz who begins cycle 2 in chapter 15. His … Continue reading Evening = Job 15, Job is Wicked