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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Things Beyond Our Understanding
Description: We continue our trip through the Bible with today’s reading from Job, a difficult text recounting God’s appearance to Job to respond to Job’s doubts. Preaching today is Rev. Dr. Soren Hessler, who recounts the story of Job, a righteous man who loses everything, and whose friends insist he must not be all that righteous if he has ended up in this position. The friends represent the wisdom tradition insisting that righteousness brings the good life, but in Job’s situation and from his perspective the question becomes why do bad things happen to good people? Today’s reading...