Faith, Fiction, Friends

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

After 1 Samuel 23-24   A weak man  fears his servant.  A weak man  is jealous of his  servant’s success. A weak man  convinces himself  that...

After 1 Samuel 23-24   The contrast startles: one man, determined to hunt down and destroy, the other who is chased, dodging capture and dea...

After 1 Samuel 23-24   No good deed goes unpunished, as he  learns for saving a city. He knows only because he asks in prayer,  prayer answe...

After 1 Samuel 18:20-19:24   What happens when  a wife is forced to choose between a father and a husband? How is the wife’s  heart torn apa...

After 1 Samuel 18:12-18   What happens when the spirit, the anointing departs? The knowledge of abandonment,  the vacuum of absence, the pai...

After 1 Samuel 18:8-16   To hear a warrior praised for his success, his deeds, greater than the king’s success and deeds, and suddenly the m...

After Samuel 16:1-13 The prophet grieved, yes, the loss of a king’s anointing; the words of God were sufficient. Yet the king was still a ki...

After I Samuel 16:1-13   The chose one has lost his authority. The prophet sees the sin, understands the reason, but grieves the loss, the k...

After 2 Samuel 1:17-27   The wind breathes, and the flower’s petals fall and turn brown, withering into dust. The mighty one the king who pe...

After I Samuel 24:1-12   Had he done it then, they would have known, they would have grasped, they would have accepted and recognized and ap...

After I Samuel 24:1-12   He could have had it all, the kingdom, the power, the glory, respect, admiration. He could have ended the threat to...

After I Samuel 24:1-12   He might have ended the push me – pull you condition, the constant fear, the constant hardship of his life on the r...

After I Samuel 24:1-12    In this mouth of darkness plays out a drama, a story of fear, of opportunity prevented, of opportunity refused. Th...

After I Samuel 18:6-9   The king hears the songs, the promises sung to celebrate victory, and he hears the words tilt toward the hero, not t...

A fter Acts 9:9-19 He is a devout man, known for being so, known for following  the law, known to those of the old faith an...