“And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince over Israel, my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord working salvation himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.” (ESV – Read the chapter)
Abigail was scrambling. She knew that if she didn’t come up with something really good and right on the spot her husband, possibly her older children, and most of the servants under her care were toast. When she heard word that David was coming for war, she put together a generous gift, road out to meet him well before he arrived, and made her pitch. Read the rest…
In this third part of our series, Gravity: Overcoming the Weight of Our Stuff, we talk about another way to reduce its pull on us. Once we know who is the real owner of the stuff we normally call “ours,” what comes next? Simply put: We have to learn how to use it like He would. To find out how that is and what we should do about it, keep reading.
Zero G’s
We recently watched the Oscar-nominated film, The Martian, starring Matt Damon. It really was a great movie. It’s about a team of astronauts who have established a little outpost on Mars. During their research, however, a wild storm moves in and they have to abandon the post, at which point they decide to begin their year-long return to earth. In the chaos of trying to get on their escape vessel as the storm rages around them, however, Matt Damon’s character gets separated from the group. Presuming him dead, the group’s leader makes the agonizing decision to return without him. I’ll stop the synopsis there so as to not give anything away if you haven’t seen it, but needless to say, the film includes quite a few scenes of the astronauts doing life on their enormous ship. With the exception of a section of the ship in which they have somehow simulated gravity, all the movements about the ship take place in the weightlessness of space. In order to film most of the scenes the actors were put on wires or else pantomimed being weightless in outer space while balancing on one foot. Read the rest…
“And David said to his men, ‘Every man strap on his sword!’ And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.” (ESV – Read the chapter)
There are a lot of different kinds of mad. Very rarely is someone ever just regular old garden-variety angry. If you’re mad about something, it’s helpful to know what kind of mad you are. There is selfish-mad and disappointed-mad and jealous-mad. Parents may know well the feeling of being disobeyed-mad or disrespected-mad. Most of us have at one time or another been bad attitude-mad. Employees probably know overworked-mad. What student doesn’t know what it feels like to be stressed out-mad? But have you ever been hurt-mad? How about offended-mad? Those cousins are two of the most dangerous kinds of mad there are. Read the rest…
The Nexus 