Part 4: INHERITED MEMORIES Every morning we put feed out in dishes for parrots that gather in our garden. Every day they come down from the mountains to us for food and then they fly off to their way of life lived outside our garden. They build nests and rear their...
Part 10: HEARTFELT What do we see in the world today? Disbelief, disregard for Christ, all the ‘isms’ of distrust and hatred, and we have terrible drought, flood, earthquake, fire and volcano disasters. Millions are in desperate need of simple basics; food, water,...
We pick up the story with Jesus' troubles at their peak. His blood loss is incredible. He is weak with hunger, dehydrated, His bones are out of joint (see Ps. 22), and the pain is astronomical. He is slowly asphyxiating, and just when things didn't seem like they can...
Much has been written and many sermons have been preached about King David, and specifically about his one big sin. But what about the long term ramifications of sin? Are there lessons that we can learn beyond the obvious? Can what happened to David give us guidance...
First the death of his infant son. David must have thought that the worst was past. After all, what else could happen that would be worse than losing your infant child? But the death of the baby was only the beginning. The next thing that happened involved two of...
After Tamar's shameful experience with her half-brother, Amnon, she was doomed to a life of disgrace. Fortunately for her, she had someone who truly loved her, Absalom, her full-brother. In an age where losing your virginity was the worst shame that could befall a...
So far, David's fall has resulted in the death of a baby, the rape of his daughter, the murder of the heir to his throne, and estrangement with his son, Absalom. How much more trouble can one simple night's sin cause? Plenty. The next two years after David made peace...
In last Saturday's Nugget, LESSONS FROM DAVID'S FALL, Part 12, we learned that when God gives you a command, it is in your best interest to do it! Right away! If you don't, you might lose the privilege of working for Him, and worse still, you cause someone to lose...
This next lesson from David's fall comes to us from the last chapter of 2 Samuel. The story starts off by saying the Lord is angry with Israel: "Again the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel . . ." (2 Sam 24:1a). The Bible doesn't tell us why, but...
Last week, in AT THE POOL OF BETHESDA, Part 1, we learned from the paralytic that we all live in a crippled state, we are all in need of healing. We learned that like the paralytic, we need to be aware of this fact, and we need to seek that healing in the living...