John Mark Hicks

Publicado por primera vez en Leaven 8.2 (primavera de 2000) 75-80. (An English translation is available here: “Job’s Sanctuary Experience and Mine.”) Translated by Wilson Silva Garcia.             Vivimos en un mundo caído lleno de pecado, desesperación y muerte.  Sin embargo, es el mundo de Dios y él es soberano sobre él (Salmo 115:3).  La […]

JOB’S FAITHFUL ENDURANCE IN GOD’S STORY [This is chapter 6 from my Yet Will I Trust Him (College Press, 1999), pp. 153-181.]                           What is man that you make so much of him,                                       that you give him so much attention,                           that you examine him every morning                                       and test him every moment?                           Will you never […]

Something climatic happens in Job 42:1-6 when Job responds to Yahweh’s second speech. Some believe that Job is unmoved.  He has heard God and is not convinced. He maintains his defiant stance since God has not answered his questions. This is a rather recent critical position taken by several in the Academy (cf. Curtis, JBL […]

Yesterday I drove to Ellijay, Georgia–the city of my wife’s birth, upbringing, marriage, death and burial. She died around 2:00am on April 30, 1980 while convalescing in her parent’s home from back surgery twenty days before. Yesterday I drove to her graveside alone. I had not been there alone in some years, perhaps decades. It was […]