"All right, you may test him," the LORD said to Satan."Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don't harm him physically." So Satan left the LORD's presence.One day, when Job's sons and daughters were feasting at the older brother's house, a messenger arrived at Job's home with the news: "Your oxen were plowing with the donkeys feeding beside them when the Sabeans raided us. They st...  Read More

One day, the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth in it."Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job?" There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evi...  Read More

There was once a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless -- a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil. He had seven sons and three daughters. He owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 teams of oxen and 500 female donkeys. He also had many servants, He was, in fact, the richest person in that entire area.Job's sons would take turns preparing feasts in th...  Read More

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on His law day and night.That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,Which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither -- whatever they do prospers.     Psalm 1:1-3 Every person w...  Read More

I want to know Christ -- yes, to know the power of His resurrection, and to participate in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself...  Read More

King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the empire, to its distant shores. And all his acts of power and might, together with a full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king had promoted, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Media and Persia? Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow...  Read More