Tag: Saul
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Chronicles 10:1-14 Focus: 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 It is hard to deny that life is full of cause-and-effect. You act one way, the cause, and things will turn out another, the effect. If you touch a hot stove, expect to be burnt. If you speed through a red light, expect a fine in the mail (I should know)! If you don’t discipline kids, expect disobedience. If you eat a lot of junk food, expect to put on weight if you don’t exercise. It is the natural order of things, if you do certain things, expect certain…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 26:1-29:11 Focus: 1 Samuel 28:4-7, 15-19 You ever wonder if it’s ever possible that God no longer listens to someone… that God would turn His back on someone… that God would, heaven forbid, reject someone?! It’s hard to say, it raises questions of our own treatment of God, our relationship with God, and a whole lot of others. It certainly isn’t something that I really want to even consider in regards to my own life, that God would stop listening and speaking…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 20:1-22:23 Focus: 1 Samuel 22:6-19 The old saying goes, “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The double-edge sword of leadership, the power and authority of leadership, can be dangerous in the hands of anyone, even the most careful of leaders. For if a leader is unable to wield the sword of leadership, he is easily overcome by those who despise his leadership; if a leader wields the sword wildly with absolute disregard for those around him, it is likely that he’ll hurt people and himself in the process. It takes a strong, but firm,…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 15:1-17:31 Focus: 1 Samuel 15:22-25 It’s so easy for us to say, “Serve God, not people.” However, we walk out the front door and we’re confronted with a way of life which must choose to live as the world does, or to live as God desires us to live. Do we succumb to the peer pressure of our friends to join the latest trends? To join in them in their sprees of the must-have items of the month? To be up-to-date on the latest fashion, playing the latest games, following the latest TV series,…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 8:1-11:15 Focus: 1 Samuel 8:6-9 As people, as physical beings, we desire tangible objects to associate and interpret our world. The basis of science is the observable world, not the invisible and intangible—that which is intangible remains under the category of “theory”. Even in the search to understand the invisible and intangible, it is through the tangible which it is interpreted…which can cause a few problems because they are often nothing alike. The invisible and intangible is a state that can’t be paralleled with the tangible. Yet, we will try, try as we might,…
