Finished: "Job" by Charles Swindoll

A while back, I finished reading the 8 volumes I have of Swindoll’s “Great Lives from God’s Word” series. In a few weeks, I will begin teaching a class on Job in our Bible school program, so I decided to read that volume again cover-to-cover. Again, it has blessed my life.

This will not be a full review, since you can find the review of the entire series elsewhere on this blog. Let it be sufficient to say that this book is one of my favorites in the series, but that comes with a little bias, since Job is one of my favorite Bible books. Swindoll, in this volume, is able to draw out the humanness of this great Biblical account. Also, for preachers, the practical lessons found at the end of each chapter are wonderful sermon starters. You won’t be disappointed with this book.

There is one drawback, though. Swindoll just assumes that Behomoth is a hippo and Leviathan is a crocodile. I believe these are dinosaurs, but Swindoll does not take any time for this discussion at all. I wish he would have devoted at least a paragraph to the controversy.