Job 4-5 It can be hard to know what to say when someone is suffering. But we want to get better at bringing true comfort, and being good friends. The book of Job teaches us how – and, in particular, how not to do it.
"Comfort" Tagged Sermons
Ezekiel 1:1–28 Ezekiel has a vision of the glory of the Lord. As exiles we need to see that God is the glorious ruler over all, it is a comfort, but there is also a coming judgment.
Jonah 3:10-4:1-11 Hypocrisy looks pathetic – when our boss, our colleague, our friend acts like there’s one rule for them and another rule for everybody else. Religious hypocrisy can be especially hard to stomach. Listen in as we see that God hates hypocrisy even more than we do.
Jonah 4:1-11 Hypocrisy really gets to us; and religious hypocrisy can be the worst of all. Listen in to Jonah 4 as God challenges someone very happy with God’s mercy to him, but very unhappy with God giving mercy to others.
One discussion forum post declared, “My week sucked, my day sucked, and I’m sick of hearing depressing stuff on the news. So let’s have a thread of happy news”. What good news would you have posted in response? What comfort does the Bible give?