Here are some helpful handouts to guide us through our study of 1st and 2nd Samuel. Each week the outline will be made available along with a few journal questions specific for that week's reading. Feel free to print these pages and create a binder. I would also LOVE it if you'd share some of your answers and thoughts in the comments section or via email as we move along. I'm excited about spending the summer with you in the books of 1st and 2nd Samuel. Thanks in advance for all we will Continue Reading
Let’s Try It Together
One day I received a call at the pharmacy from a customer asking me to fill her “liver medicine.” “Liver medicine?” I asked. “Yes, those pills I take for my liver,” she explained. Given that I knew she was not taking any “liver pills,” I decided to look through her profile, recite the names of each medication listed, and try to figure out which one she was mistaking to be “for her liver.” My hope was that she will hear the name and say, “yeah, that one.” “Ok, ma’am, I see Simvastatin, for Continue Reading
Pause (Part 2)
Did last week’s discussion on the value of pausing to ponder, process, and pray before moving forward come one week too late? Had you already stepped out there with a hasty response and spent money you now realize you should not have spent, committed to an engagement you’d rather not attend, or said something you wish you hadn’t said? If so, it’s ok! You are in good company. Let’s consider what happened with the prophet Nathan and his hasty response. It did not involve an aggressive Continue Reading