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Psalm 88: The Saddest Psalm Has No Happy Ending (On Purpose)
Every other sad song in the Bible turns a corner. Somewhere near the end you get the “but” or the “yet,” the clouds break, and the song lands on hope. Psalm 88 never does. It starts in the dark, the man praying it feels abandoned by God and by his friends, and the last word of the psalm in Hebrew is darkness.
“You have taken away my companions and loved ones. Darkness is my closest friend.” Psalm 88:18 (NLT)
In this episode of Whiskey and the Writings, we look at why the darkest psalm in the Bible was kept in the songbook on purpose. It was written by the sons of Korah, the temple singers, basically the worship team, and they sang a song with no happy ending. We talk about lament, why church culture so often rushes us to the next step, and the thing in this psalm most of us were never taught to see: from the first verse to the last, he never stops talking to God.
21 Oct 2026
Job 42: Your Doubt Isn’t a Lack of Faith
For seven days Job’s friends sat with him in the ash heap and said nothing. Then they opened their mouths, and for more than 30 chapters they explained his suffering to him. At the end of the book, God turns to the friends, not Job, and says they got it wrong.
The guys with all the right answers were corrected. The man who wouldn’t stop asking questions is the one God says spoke rightly.
In this episode of Whiskey and the Writings, we look at the ending of the book of Job and what it means for anyone who has been told their questions mean they lack faith. We talk about Job as wisdom literature rather than video footage, the retribution principle the ancient world believed (good things for good people, bad things for bad people), how Babylonian texts like Ludlul bel nemeqi and the Babylonian Theodicy wrestled with the same question, and why God shows up at the end without ever answering Job’s “why.”
14 Oct 2026
Luke 16: A Warning to the Powerful, Not a Map of Hell
The Rich Man and Lazarus is the go-to proof text for hell. Flames, a great chasm, a man begging for a drop of water. But what if that’s the one question Jesus wasn’t answering?
In this episode we read Luke 16 the way Luke built it. The chapter opens with “you cannot serve God and money,” then the Pharisees, who loved money, ridicule Jesus. This parable is his reply. It isn’t a map of the afterlife. It puts the powerful on trial for stepping over the weak at their gate.
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