Courage to Cry
We are spending four-week in our worship services using on the theme “Rise Up! Take Courage,” which is also the biennial theme for our conference – Central District Conference. Congregations…
Book of the Bible: 1 Samuel
Look for the Helpers
David, you are this man. David, God entrusted you with the care of God’s people, and you failed. David, your reign has turned rotten; instead of protecting the vulnerable you are now preying upon them. Instead of sacrificing your life for your people, you’ve demanded sacrifices laid at your feet. David, you’ve become a pharaoh. “David,” Nathan says, “why have you despised the word of the Lord?”
“Is it You, Lord?”
Not everyone who calls you by name actually knows you. My inbox is full of emails that begin with lines like: “Hi Benjamin, Thanks for your recent order!” “Greetings Benjamin!…
Covid 1: With me
The prophet Samuel has gone through a lot at this point in the story. If we rewind a bit, he first told the people that a king would be a…
Voices
We’re great at eavesdropping, at reading other people’s mail. That’s what we do when we read the Bible, our holy scriptures, all the writings complied in this book, letters and…