SSS* Week #10- I dropped my red Kool-Aid filled cup . . . not in the kitchen where it could be mopped up, but in the carpeted living room. But hey, this adolescent came up with a solution: I’d clean it up, cover the red stains on the carpet with a huge décor pillow we…
SSS* Week #9- The book of Second Samuel opens with the story of an Amalekite who lied to David about Saul’s death. David killed this man for being willing to “destroy the Lord’s anointed” (2 Samuel 1:14). After mourning the deaths of Saul and Jonathan, the Lord told David to go to Hebron. There the…
SSS* Week #8 I walked in one day to find my home in ruins! I wept. I picked up the phone and called a lady I knew to be resourceful. She told me to “trust God.” I was not exactly sure what that meant from a practical stand point. I was given a phone…
SSS* Week #7 I am known to jokingly ask a friend to please record, save, and be prepared to repeat back to me the advice that is about to spew out of my mouth. Chances are, I will one day need to take and apply the advice I am sharing with them to my own…
SSS* Week #6 The events of Spending the Summer In Samuel are beginning to add up. We’ve gone from the miraculous birth of Hannah’s baby boy to the growing fury of King Saul. What I love most about the countless major moments in scripture is all that is in it for me. As we read…
(SSS* Week 5) David defeated the champion Goliath with a sling and a stone. Then, thanks to Jonathan’s loyalty, his own quickness, his wife Michal’s fidelity, and Samuel’s protection, he managed to escape King Saul’s attempts to murder him four times! Prior to these two significant events in the life of David, we are told…