Ash to Ashes

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Job: it’s one of the darkest, most troubling, and misunderstood books in the Bible. Christopher Ash, Director of the Cornhill Training Course of Proclamation Trust in London and council member of Tyndale House in Cambridge, has authored a worthwhile book on Job. Carl, Aimee, & Todd sit down to discuss Job: The Wisdom of the Cross, a commentary in the Preaching the Word series. In the book Ash breaks down everything from the difficult conversations with Job’s friends to God’s purpose in redemptive suffering. The main focus of today’s casual conversation:...the leviathan. So is it a dinosaur or what?The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to offer a drawing for a free book! We have a few copies of Job: The Widsom of the Cross by Christopher Ash that we would like to give away. You can enter the drawing here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman,
0:23.6	Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing
0:30.3	Evangelicals. It's one of the darkest and most misunderstood books of the Bible, but in this episode,
0:36.8	the Spin team tries to wrap their heads
0:38.7	around, Job. Using a helpful commentary, they discuss key issues in the text, and Carl and Todd
0:45.7	give good tips on how to preach through it. Keep listening after the conversation to find out
0:51.1	how to enter a drawing for a book from the alliance.
1:05.8	On today's program, we want to address one of the most well-known, fascinating, but difficult and misunderstood books in the biblical canon. And that is the book of Job. Job is a hardy perennial, even in the
1:15.1	wider culture. Phrases such as Job's comforters are part and parcel of cultural lingo.
1:22.2	William Blake, the famous poet and mystic and illustrator of the early 19th century,
1:29.2	illustrated the book of Job.
1:30.7	He was fascinated by this story of a man tormented by Satan with, apparently, with God's
1:36.9	permission.
1:38.0	And the book has continued throughout the ages to be the classic place in scripture for addressing issues relating to
1:49.6	the problem of evil and the problem of suffering and what an appropriate response, an appropriate
1:57.1	theological response should be to suffering. And recently, Crossway have published an excellent commentary in the series preaching the word,
2:07.8	which is edited by a friend Kent Hughes.
2:11.5	They've published a volume by the English preacher Christopher Ash entitled Job, The Wisdom of the Cross. And the team have read
2:20.9	this book and I think we're united in thinking it could well be one of the most thorough,
2:27.8	homiletic and pastoral treatments of the book of Job that we've ever come across. So we wanted to
2:33.7	spend our time today reflecting on the book of Job, on some of the great of Job that we've ever come across. So we wanted to spend our time today reflecting
2:35.3	on the book of Job, on some of the great insights that Christopher Ash has on this book, and to draw out
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