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Sharing Glory: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 23)

I had a wonderful mentor in Bill Barber. Bill was the Christian Education director at my church and he took me under his wing, gave me responsibility and freedom. But he also gently trained me and was

Along For the Ride: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 22)

1 Samuel started with the exaltation of the humble Hannah, mother of Samuel. The rest of 1 and 2 Samuel is a chronicle of what Hannah proclaimed, that it is Yahweh who exalts and humbles and it is not

Old Soldiers Never Die…: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 21)

When my mother-in-law had a wreck in her nineties, she decided herself that she needed to stop driving. Giving up one’s car keys and one’s independence like that is a hard thing. It is hard

Effective Is Not Always Right: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 20)

We are not prone to celebrate the leadership of Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, because, despite how effective he was at getting things done, what he got done was immensely immoral. David has

The Overwhelming Responsibility of Leadership: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 19)

I remember being given responsibility for a segment of my church’s ministry and immediately setting about to make decisions that I later learned overstepped what others were already doing. Leadership

Trust God and Go to Work: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 18)

Christians have at times been tempted to passivity, given that God is in control of all things and they recognize God’s control. Fearing to interfere with God’s determinations or believing

Divine Coincidences: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 17)

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/ By Randall Johnson

Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky was leading his air group’s scout bombers on June 4, 1942 against the Japanese fleet near Midway but failed to find them until he located the Japanese destroyer

God Decides Leaders: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 16)

Joseph son of Jacob had a dream as a young man that his family would bow down to him. He went many years before this was fufilled, being sold into servitude and even imprisoned, before God, in His sovereignty,

Man Has Responsibility, Not Power (Tuscarora Proverb): Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 15)

George Washington could have served more than two terms as president. He didn’t even want to serve the second term, but did so at the insistence of many who saw our young republic in need of his

Listening to the Wrong Inner Voice: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 14)

In a Psychology Today article called Don’t Let “Mom Guilt” Make You a Worse Parent the author writes, “If guilt is your primary emotion, overriding feelings of pride, affection, and empathy,

Seeing God’s Invitation to Help: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 13)

God told David through Nathan the prophet that David’s son through adultery with Bathsheba would die. Yet David mourned and grieved as his son was dying holding out hope that God might change His

Grace Greater Than Our Sin: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 12:24-31)

How many of us have failed to serve our God faithfully, anticipating that we might be forever stuck on the shelf as far as usefulness to God, only to find His grace restoring our fortunes to us. How do

Dealing With God and Death: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 12:15-23)

Several of our presidents have lost children to death. George Washington lost his young step-daughter, Martha’s daughter (she had already lost two of her four children before marrying George) and

Consequences: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 12:1-15)

I like to think I would love being a prophet of God, but then I imagine what it must have been like for Nathan, a prophet during king David’s reign, and what it must have felt like to be sent by

Uh Oh: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 11)

A friend of mine painted a watercolor of Uriah during a sermon series on heroes of the Bible. It hung in my office for many years. In the background, behind a wall, a silhouette of a woman can be seen,

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