Mephibosheth (meh-FIB-oh-sheth) is King Saul’s grandson and Jonathan’s son, yet David not only spared his life, but blessed him. Typically, when a new king takes a throne, they destroy the old king’s entire family line to avoid anyone trying to overthrow this new king in the old king’s name. David set about destroying the line […]
“Rather, (God) devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from Him.” (1 Sam. 14:14) David is having his second “You are that man!” moment in two days. The first is Nathan the Prophet, accusing David of stealing Bathsheba from the righteous and relatively poor Uriah. Now it’s the wise woman from […]
24 years ago I preached my first official sermon to a church congregation. I was in Mankato, MN on my internship and the pastor gave me the morning to preach. I preached this text, Luke 16, the story of the rich man and Lazarus. Obviously this isn’t the Lazarus we all know from John 11, […]
There is so much in this passage, we may spend a few days on it. From the story of Mephibosheth (one of my personal favorites in all of the scriptures) to the war with the Ammonites begun with bad assumptions to David and Bathsheba to the Prodigal Son… quite a day’s reading. Let’s look at […]
There is so much in this passage, we may spend a few days on it. From the story of Mephibosheth (one of my personal favorites in all of the scriptures) to the war with the Ammonites begun with bad assumptions to David and Bathsheba to the Prodigal Son… quite a day’s reading. Let’s look at […]