Feb 23, 2025

Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 30:1-8

Everyone draws strength from somewhere outside themselves.  The poet was right when he said, "No man is an island."  Situations confront us every day that demand a wisdom and strength beyond the resources of our own mind and heart.  Some people turn to horoscopes for help …...

Feb 16, 2025

Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 29

One unlikely, but effective, strategy David used when running from Saul was to live in a Philistine city.  David fled to Gath and lived there, serving the king of Gath, Achish, for 16 months (1 Sam 27:6).  He even fought battles for Achish (1 Sam 27:8-12) against the Amalekites.

When it...

Feb 9, 2025

Scripture Reading: 1 Chronicles 21:18-27

Following David’s sin of proudly taking an unnecessary census in Israel (1 Chr 21:1-17), God sent a pestilence on the land in judgment.  When David repented of his sin, he desired to offer God a sacrifice of contrition.  When King David came to the appointed place, the owner of...

Feb 3, 2025

Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:17-35

Selfishness was rotting the church at Corinth. Like the Greek mythological character Narcissus who loved his own reflection so much that he died while glaring at it, narcissism plagued the Corinthian church. They used Spirit-enabled gifts to feed their own ego rather than build...