The Church, going with the Bible, has two kinds of ordained people within it: elders and deacons. We see these two “offices” in Acts 6 & 1 Timothy 3:8-13 (deacons) and 1 Timothy 3:1-7, 5:17, Acts 14:23, Titus 1:5-9, and 1 Peter 5:1-4 (elders, who may be pastors or lay elders). Some churches, like ours, ordain only men. How bizarre, right? And (hear this as loving and gracious push-back) how dare God and a religion declare anything different from what its society currently

I probably receive more questions of confusion about the Book of Job than any other book of Scripture. Here’s a simple “setting of the table” that should make the book make sense to you: Job's argument is this: “I don’t know anyone more righteous than I, yet I possess the worst circumstances, and greater sinners are all doing vastly better than I! This is unjust! God, this is not fair, yet I know You are both sovereign and just. What is going on?” His friends assume what

I may get more questions about the Book of Job than about any other book: "Is Job right, or are his friends right?” “Isn’t Job in sin for questioning God?" Here are some thoughts to anchor you as you read Job, so that you can understand its very important message for Christians today, especially as it answers the question of whether you should expect justice in the world prior to Jesus’ return and the New Heavens and New Earth that He will make (Revelation 21-22): Life in t