David Helm on Teaching Habakkuk

Habakkuk had some significant questions for God. And God’s answers were hard to hear. But God told Habakkuk to write down what God was showing him because future generations would need to hear it. We need to hear it. Those we teach need to hear it.

In this episode of Help Me Teach the Bible, David Helm, lead pastor of the Hyde Park congregation of Holy Trinity Church in Chicago and chairman of the board of the Charles Simeon Trust, walks listeners through the short three-chapter book of Habakkuk, helping us to trace its argument, feel its poetic pathos, and sing its song. We spend time on how to handle Habakkuk’s important statement “the righteous will live by faith.” We also talk about Habakkuk's faith-filled determination to trust God in the disaster that is about to come down on his people as God determines to use the Babylonians to deliver his judgment.

Recommended Print Resources:

• Habakkuk: A Wrestler with God by Walter J. Chantry
• Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah:The New International Commentary of the Old Testament by O. Palmer Robertson
• Lamentations, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: A 12-Week Study by Camden Bucey

Recommended Audio Resources:

• Sermon series on Habakkuk from Holy Trinity Church
•  Sermon series on Habakkuk by Alistair Begg
• Message on Habakkuk by Colin Smith