In 1 Kings, Adonijah, son of Haggith, declares himself king, sacrifices a whole bunch of animals at a stone somewhere, and puts Bathsheba and Nathan into a panic. They burst in on David and tell him the news: “He has sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the king‚Äôs…
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } sons of Jacob, originally uploaded by sullyflickr. I’ve been spending the last two weeks on two talks at The Well. Here is a chart I made from that. I’m now using…
“People are addicted to and hooked on entertainment, so the church is focusing on entertaining people.” A lady said that like it was a bad thing, and is, but what if it wasn’t? What if we didn’t label that as good or bad, but just said that’s the way it is? The people are speaking…
“Do I not know that today I am king over Israel?” 2 Samuel 19.22 King David is returning to Jerusalem after the whole Absalom mishap. He knows he is going back to be king, but there might be a little messy housekeeping to do, and he has lost one of his sons after treason against…
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Learn about Jesus, originally uploaded by sullyflickr. Here is the handwritten blog version of what I typed below.
Ok, you may not know this, but Huge Insane Project Number 1 was to build a scale model of the tabernacle out of Legos. It is still a work in progress. Instead of waiting to finish that project, I have started on a second Huge Insane Project. I am reading through the Samuels and Kings…
We believe IN Jesus and we tell people ABOUT Jesus until we begin to believe in and know about the things HE said. At that point we stop doing things LIKE Him and talking ABOUT Him and we start doing WHAT HE IS DOING and we start saying WHAT HE IS SAYING.¬† I think I…
We must always be as intelligent, thorough, and clever as we can. -Dallas Williard, Divine Conspiracy
“This was the education to form great statesmen, great orators, great warriors, great poets, great architects, great sculptors, great philosophers: because, once for all, it formed men, and not mere knowledge-boxes: and the men, being men, had minds, and could apply them to the work. whatever it might be. which circumstances had given them to…
“Violent revolutions, in this sense, aren’t revolutionary. Noisy regime changes are utterly predictable ‚Äì bourth about by displays of power and hollow promises and indomitable wealth. In contrast, the message of Jesus may well be called the most revolutionary of all time… “What other kind of revolution would possibly change the world? perhaps what’s crazy…
