Man of Blood (2 Samuel 16:7-8)
Man of Blood (2 Samuel 16:7-8) The last post about ‘the blood of Jesus’ brought to mind the time when David was accused of being a ‘man of blood’. The setting is David’s escape from Jerusalem due to the Absalom…
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The Blood of Jesus
In her novel, A Taste for Death, PD James opens with this vivid description of the discovery, by an elderly spinster, of two bodies in a church: “There were two of them and she knew instantly, and with absolute certainty,…
Until now
“But you have kept the good wine until now.” (John 2:10). David Ford comments upon this statement of the steward or master of the feast at the wedding at Cana: These final words of the story are “a typical multilayered…
Earnest Prayer
Brian Edwards hammers home the vital nature of prayer in revival: “In the first month of the first year of his reign, [Hezekiah] opened the doors of the temple of the LORD and repaired them (2 Chronicles 29:3). That is…
She Crushed his head
“But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove (taqa’) the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.” (Judges 4:21). In my last post…
Blow the trumpet in Tekoa!
“And he [Joab] took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak. …Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.” (2 Samuel…
God has come
“In 1858 John Girardeau was leading an evening service at this church in Charleston, North Carolina, when ‘He received a sensation as if a bolt of electricity had struck his head and diffused itself through his whole body. For a…
Friendship
“So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.” (2 Samuel 15:37). 2 Samuel 15 describes the enormous grief for David when the news of the Absalom rebellion reaches the ear of the king. David…
Christians and politics
“Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law…Love does no wrong to a neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” (Romans 13:8, 10) I read these verses…
Stormy church service – ‘without gown or surplice’!
“And he said to the disciples, ‘The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, Look, there! or…