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What if heartfelt lament isn’t rebellion but faith under pressure? We trace that question from the fire of Jeremiah and Isaiah to the ash heap with Job, where friends confuse honest grief with crafty speech. Along the way, we share a real story of walking back into church after tension, choosing reconciliation over avoidance, and learning that being wronged doesn’t guarantee a righteous response. The thread is simple and demanding: judge speech by truth, not by tone or circumstance.

We dive deep into Job 15 and the charge that “your mouth utters iniquity,” asking why people label uncomfortable truths as unloving. The challenge lands on modern ground: believers often police emotion instead of testing claims by Scripture. We also confront selective courage in public theology. If Jesus is Lord, then any system that denies him stands opposed to the gospel; consistency matters more than cultural comfort. That doesn’t mean cruelty. It means clarity with humility, even-handed conviction, and a refusal to let sensitivity silence the message.

From there we zoom out to the foundation: your doctrine of God directs your reading of the Bible. Start with who God is—holy, immutable, omniscient, omnipotent, sovereign—and hard passages come into focus without bending his nature. “God repented” in Genesis 6 reads as grief, not change. Claims about his will harmonize with his character across the canon. Interpretation is never neutral, so we call for a thick weave of biblical witnesses, testing ideas by the whole counsel of Scripture. The result is a steadier church life: lament without guilt, correction without pride, courage without partiality, and worship anchored in the God who never changes.

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