Faith, Fiction, Friends

After 2 Samuel 24   Knowing better, having experiences untold,  he needed to measure his power, he needed an accounting of what he controlle...

After 2 Samuel 23:1-7   He looks back and sees the sheep on the hillside, the prophet with his oil, the giant taunting the army, the five st...

After 2 Samuel 18   Even after his kingdom is almost lost, his family torn apart, his country sundered in two, his throne threatened,  the m...

After 2 Samuel 18   The slaughter of battle is great that day, thousands falling to sword and lance and knife. The dead lie in heaps, wasted...

After 2 Samuel 12:1-25   He leaps from story to outrage without missing a bear, the sin so obvious, the wrong done so clear.   The teller th...

After 2 Samuel 12:1-25   Why is it that I can see the sin in others but not in me?   Why is it that others’ sin seems so clear but not the s...

After 2 Samuel 11:1-27   No matter the success, no matter how great  the achievement; no matter the gain, the accolades, the praises, the su...

After 2 Samuel 11:1-27   He was not where he should have been; he stayed home instead of leading his army.  He observed what  he should not ...

After 2 Samuel 9:1-13   I am Mephibosheth, citizen of a fallen house, a hose condemned, a house consumed by its own anger and wrath, destroy...

After 2 Samuel 9:1-13   Called to the presence  of the king, expecting to be killed as was the custom, anticipating his end to a life marked...

After 2 Samuel 9:1-13   Protected by his friend, saved to avert his murder at the hands of the king, he shares a covenant, house to house, a...

After 2 Samuel 9:1-13   A kindness shown, a steadfast love displayed, to the son of his friend slain in battle, the grandson of the man who ...

After 2 Samuel 7:18-29   You have spoken, and it will be as you say, as it has been before time. You spoke life into creation; you anointed ...

After 2 Samuel 7:1-18   The desire to build a house for me is a noble one, coming from your heart, the heart  after my own. But it is not ye...

After 1 Samuel 25:1-44   He hears from her lips of his narrow escape from destruction and death, and the guilty man quakes, realizing how cl...

After 1 Samuel 25:1-44   An arrogant, unthinking word, spoken without care or thought, evokes a response of revenge and destruction, swords ...