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Spiritual Hot Potatos: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 5:1-7:2)
Do you remember playing the game of hot potato? The object designated the hot potato was to be passed from person to person as if so hot you could only hold it for a split second and toss it to someone
Continue reading...Ichabod: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 4:12-22)
It is strange, is it not, that when we depart from true knowledge of God and yet expect Him to be on our side, we experience a great shock and likely disappointment with God. It should move us to question
Continue reading...Good Luck Charms: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 4:1-11)
As a baseball fan I am tantalized by the superstitions many players have about how to insure victory or a continuation of good playing. If they were wearing certain socks when they got a homerun, they
Continue reading...How Can We Hear the Voice of God?: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 3)
There is a disturbing sentiment in much of evangelical Christianity that God does not speak to us personally but that we should expect His voice to be heard only in Scripture, because in Scripture is all
Continue reading...The Invisible Principle Made Visible: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 2:27-36)
This principle, that God exalts the humble and abases the proud, does God always make it plain that this is what is going on? Or is it left to us to draw the logical conclusion, as we see arrogant men
Continue reading...Cold or Hot or Something Else: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 2:12-26)
God exalts the humble and abases the proud. But what if you’re in-between? Can you be halfway humble or only somewhat proud? You can, but how does God respond to that? The author of 1 and 2 Samuel
Continue reading...Not By Might Shall One Prevail: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 2:1-11)
James A. Garfield was our 20th president and served only 6 and a half months because he was shot by an assassin four months into his presidency. But even more remarkable than this is how he became president.
Continue reading...Whoever Humbles Himself: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 1)
There are certain inexorable principles operative in God’s world. One of these principles is that God determines who will be exalted and who will be abased, and this determination is made based on
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