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A brief bit of encouragement for the journey from God's Word. Today's Scripture reading: James 3 To support this devotional ministry: https://faithbaptiststerling.com/give/ Music: "Awaken the Dawn" by Stanton Lanier https://www.stantonlanier.com CCLI #20109360

Today on Fastened Like Nails, Dr. Daniel Schwabauer guides Dr. Mark Hamby and Molly Mayo on a survey of one the Bible's most difficult books: Job. The central question the book asks is "Why does God allow suffering?" But maybe we've been considering the issue the wrong way. What if God has something much greater in mind if we simply had eyes to see? Tune today and prepare to look at Job, and your own life, in an entirely new light.

In this episode of Theology Central, we examine a Crosswalk article about handling church drama, focusing on its advice to pray for wisdom from James 1:5.

If God is holy and just, why does he let wicked murderers, rapists, warmongers, child abductors live, and continue their wickednes!? The Bible has the answers! CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH!?!

As much as God is often pleased to use His shepherds to be ministers of mercy and comfort being present with and giving good words to those in pain in His flock today, He is also often pleased to work in and through them to lead people through pain. Your merciful Lord is also often then pleased to work in and through you, who have received and know His comfort, to help one another. It's often true that when one is in the fire, they can't see the forest for the trees. Therefore, as you're with and giving wise words to the hurting, it's good and right for you to pray that God would grant grace to help you guide them through pain.

I. Wisdom will be Displayed II. Wisdom will be Subject III. Wisdom will be Temperate

This sermon explores the biblical role of the wife as a virtuous woman and a godly helpmeet, drawing primarily from Proverbs 31 and Ephesians 5. The central message emphasizes that submission to one's husband is an act of humility and obedience to God, mirroring the church's relationship with Christ. Through scriptural examples such as Lot's wife, Job's wife, and Priscilla, the text contrasts wives who hinder their husbands with those who empower them through wisdom, diligence, and kindness. The preacher urges women to cultivate these character traits before and during marriage, while also challenging men to lead in a way that facilitates their wives' spiritual growth. The tone is pastoral and instructional, aiming to encourage believers to live out their distinct roles with reverence and mutual support.

WITH APOLOGIES, DUE TO AN ERROR IN OUR RECORDING PROCESSES, WE HAVE NO VIDEO. While we may become frustrated with people who will not listen to us when we speak helpfully and reasonably, here we have divine patience and kindness with stubborn sinners. The Lord issues a plea to the hard-headed, the stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness, which is itself a wonder of grace. Even more, the Lord makes a promise to the same people to bring his righteousness near and not to defer or delay his salvation. He even tells us where to look—he identifies a place as the one in which he will reveal his glory in the accomplishment of salvation: Jerusalem. This divine favour still rolls out to us, as God makes known the gospel of his Son, Jesus Christ, who suffered and died at Jerusalem, to stubborn sinners. Will you acknowledge the Lord's wisdom and goodness, and—abandoning our own righteousness—receive his instead.